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Best Practices

• Define resource stanzas with CPU and memory limits for every task
• Use service stanzas with health checks for service discovery
• Configure update stanzas for safe rolling deployments
• Use constraint stanzas for node targeting and affinity
• Define restart policies with appropriate attempts and delays
• Use template stanzas for dynamic configuration from Consul/Vault
• Set kill_timeout appropriately for graceful shutdown
• Services must include health check definitions
• Use update stanzas with auto_revert for safe deployments
• Define restart policies for failure recovery
• Use constraints for datacenter and node targeting

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