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Best practice question. I have fleetDM deployed in a docker container on an EC2 instance. The docker launch sets a bunch of variables and flags and such. If I want to cleanly shutdown and restart “fleetDM” is `docker restart fleet` best practice, or is there some better way, say with ‘fleetctl’ to restart the server? I’m concerned that database connections and state are all shut down and brought back cleanly, with any pending cache flushed to disk. Thanks.

<@U04KYQZUH55> Since Fleet uses Redis to manage cache, you're good to go with `docker restart`

Since it's very common to use autoscaling and multiple Fleet instances, things are set up so that the server can just be killed without causing issues down the road. There was a potential <https://github.com/fleetdm/fleet/issues/9486|"gotcha" with scheduled tasks> if the server went down while a `cleanup` job was running, but that has been resolved as of v 4.29.0.