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@@ -13,10 +13,36 @@ To make modifications to the main NiFi pipeline and add it to the Ansible playbo
   `utils/flow2template.py flow.xml.gz roles/nifi/templates/flow.xml.j2`
 
 
-Restart services inside docker containers
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+Update configuration files in docker containers using Ansible
+-------------------------------------------------------------
+To update configuration files for all docker containers together, run the following command:
+	ansible-playbook -i inventories soctools.yml -t update-config
+To update configuration files only for specific services, run the following commands:
+	ansible-playbook -i inventories soctools.yml -t update-keycloak-config
+	ansible-playbook -i inventories soctools.yml -t update-thehive-config
+
+
+Restart services inside docker containers using Ansible
+-------------------------------------------------------
+To restart services for all docker containers together, run the following command:
+        ansible-playbook -i inventories soctools.yml -t restart
+To restart services only for specific docker containers, run the following commands:
+        ansible-playbook -i inventories soctools.yml -t restart-keycloak
+        ansible-playbook -i inventories soctools.yml -t restart-thehive
+
+Stop services inside docker containers using Ansible
+----------------------------------------------------
+To stop services for all docker containers together, run the following command:
+        ansible-playbook -i inventories soctools.yml -t stop
+To stop services only for specific docker containers, run the following commands:
+        ansible-playbook -i inventories soctools.yml -t stop-keycloak
+        ansible-playbook -i inventories soctools.yml -t stop-thehive
+
+Restart services inside docker containers manually
+--------------------------------------------------
 To restart services inside docker containers after changes in configuration files:
 	1. Attache container: docker exec -it container_id_or_name bash (example: docker exec -it soctools-keycloak bash)
 	2. List  services and their statuses: supervisorctl status
 	3. Restart service: supervisorctl restart supervisor_service_name (example: supervisorctl restart keycloak)
 	4. Detach from container: exit
+