## Starting a container

### Overview

When you create a container, it starts up automatically and continues to run until stopped by some event, planned or otherwise. You can manually restart a stopped container.

### Procedure

To start a container:

1. If necessary, in Fabric Explorer, expand the tree of the fabric whose container you want to start.

2. Select the container and right-click it to open the context menu.

3. Click Start Container.

   | Note
   To check whether the developer tools started the container, click Containers in Fabric Explorer, and open the Properties view. You should see something similar to Figure 19, where `mycamelExample` was started and provisioned successfully.

   Figure 19. Container status in Properties view

   The status indicators in the Status column of the Properties view indicate the startup state of the container, as shown Table 1:

   Table 1. Container startup status

   Icon | Meaning
   --- | ---
   | Container stopped
   | Container started; analysis and provisioning in progress
   | Container started and provisioned successfully
   | Failure occurred during startup or provisioning

### Related topics

Stopping a container