#13807·compose

Add optional auto-confirm label on volumes

Author: qianlongztCreated May 22, 2026Updated Sep 29, 2026
Labelskind/feature

Description

In CI/CD workflows, changes to volumes may trigger interactive confirmation prompts, which can break automation and require manual intervention.

For example, when an existing volume does not match the Compose specification, Docker may prompt:

Volume "... " exists but doesn't match the Compose specification in the Compose file. Recreate (data will be lost)?

To support non-interactive environments, it would be useful to provide an option to automatically confirm volume recreation in such cases, while keeping the default interactive behavior unchanged.

This behavior is controlled via a per-volume label, allowing precise control when multiple volumes are defined in a single Compose file. The label does not apply globally.

Example

diff
services:
  app:
    image: alpine
    volumes:
      - my_vol:/my_vol
      - no_recreate_label:/no_recreate_label

volumes:
  my_vol:
    driver: local
    driver_opts:
      device: tmpfs
      o: size=1k,uid=65530,gid=0,mode=0700,noexec
      type: tmpfs
    labels:
+      com.docker.compose.volume.recreate-when-spec-updated: "true"
      foo: bar
  nfs:
    driver: local
    driver_opts:
      type: nfs
      o: addr=XXX,nfsvers=4.2,soft,timeo=600,retrans=2,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576
      device: :/storage2/sonarr/media/
    labels:
+      com.docker.compose.volume.recreate-when-spec-updated: "true"
  no_recreate_label:
    labels:
      foo: bar

use case

  1. Shared tmpfs mounts between services
  2. Volume mounts that can be safely deleted without removing the underlying data (e.g., NFS volumes)

https://github.com/kimdre/doco-cd/issues/1130 https://github.com/kimdre/doco-cd/issues/1267