autostart.md

Auto-start instances at login

macpine can add a launchctl agent to start instances upon user login. Note that this may slow the login process.

Once installed, the launch agent will automatically start all instances with the tag launchctl-autostart upon user login. This tag can be added with alpine tag <instance name> launchctl-autostart to an arbitrary number of instances.

There are two ways to install the macpine launchctl launch agent plist file:

Installing with brew and brew services

brew install macpine
brew services start macpine

Installing from source

git clone https://github.com/beringresearch/macpine.git
cd macpine
make install && make agent

This will add alpineDaemonLaunchAgent.plist to ~/Library/LaunchAgents with the directive to start the appropriately tagged instances.