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Hi! Do you have any information on the best practice to manage agents? For now, I've been launching them manually on my VMs with commands like `prefect agent docker start ... &amp;`  and killing manually with linux signals
Is there a recommended method to do this ?

This page explains how to use supervisor for it <https://docs.prefect.io/orchestration/agents/local.html#using-with-supervisor>

but if you use e.g. Kubernetes or ECS agent, you can run it in-cluster as a service, so that the cluster manager can take care of monitoring the agent’s health

Thanks, is it valid for docker agents too ? I thought it applied only to local agents!

Absolutely! Supervisor accepts arbitrary commands, so instead of prefect agent local start, you might as well use “prefect agent docker start”