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Hi :wave: ,
Why is it suggested in the docs to keep an agent (and I guess a server) running via supervisord instead with systemd? 
Does anyone know?:)

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No specific reason! I think we found suporvisord and liked it

When running a docker agent, do you also recommend using `suvervisord` or is there a docker native way of running the agent so that it will restart if it crashes?

<@U012CK03GBA> the docker agent is I believe also just a process. Instead of running a flow from a file, it pulls a docker container from a registry and calls `run` on that container. If you were to install a docker agent on a vm, I would recommend using the instructions above

However, if you’re already there, I would recommend checking out Kubernetes or Fargate for running production Flows.

Thanks, Dylan. In this particular case, we have little infrastructure support so we are going the Docker agent route running on a VM. At some point, I'd like to explore one of the other options. Thanks again!