Bonus question about log files, how can I make them more useful in terms of information? Right now they just name the command, not even a timestamp or anything. Use a wrapper script which echo’s some useful output like “stopping container xy … stopped” and put the output of that in the log. Systemd units do it by default but you can also pipe it to rsyslogd or a similar logging service, or use specialised logging tools and monitoring like victorialogs.