Starting and stopping the Sametime server

Starting and stopping the Sametime server involves starting and stopping the Sametime services running in the container management system.

To manage the Sametime server on Docker, you use the docker-compose command.

To start the Sametime server on Docker, run the following command.
```
docker compose up -d
```
To stop the Sametime server, run the following command.
```
docker compose down
```

On Kubernetes, scaling the pods can be used to start and stop the Sametime service. The kubectl scale command is use.

Scale the pod to one, starts the service.

kubectl scale deploy deployment_name --replicas=1

Scale the pod to zero, where deployment_name is the pod name.
```
kubectl scale deploy deployment_name --replicas=0
```

Parent topic: Administering