--- title: Say Goodbye to Docker Volumes 👋 | daily.dev description: Learn how to use Docker Compose Watch to automatically synchronize local source code with code in a Docker container without using volumes. Discover different... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/say-goodbye-to-docker-volumes--rkqtp4ksk twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Say Goodbye to Docker Volumes 👋 | daily.dev og:description: Learn how to use Docker Compose Watch to automatically synchronize local source code with code in a Docker container without using volumes. Discover different... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/say-goodbye-to-docker-volumes--rkqtp4ksk og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/rKqtp4kSk.png og:image:alt: Say Goodbye to Docker Volumes 👋 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Say Goodbye to Docker Volumes 👋 **[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 4 min read · 413 upvotes · 4 comments ## Summary Learn how to use Docker Compose Watch to automatically synchronize local source code with code in a Docker container without using volumes. Discover different actions that can be used with the watch attribute and be aware of the caveats of using this feature. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@ehsan18** · 1 upvotes > Could be a game changer and we might be one step closer to development within containers. **@stickhunter** · 1 upvotes > I do think development throughout Remote containers in VSC is still the best option. You jump into container and work like locally, your terminal works inside container too, so you can install any tool you want and do not mess up your host pc. But yeah, watch is good step forward. Thanks for article! **@maximilianharr** · 0 upvotes > can s.o. explain the benefit of "watch" w.r.t "volumes" for code sync? **@gustavohernandez** · 0 upvotes > Initially for my work it is a good solution because managing storage resources becomes tedious, because it is very complicated to provision storage. Let my future self take care of the consequences of this implementation. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#docker](https://daily.dev/tags/docker), [#docker-compose](https://daily.dev/tags/docker-compose) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/say-goodbye-to-docker-volumes--rkqtp4ksk) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Say Goodbye to Docker Volumes 👋","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/say-goodbye-to-docker-volumes--rkqtp4ksk","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/say-goodbye-to-docker-volumes--rkqtp4ksk"},"datePublished":"2024-05-02T14:22:55.646Z","dateModified":"2024-05-09T09:28:18.744Z","description":"Learn how to use Docker Compose Watch to automatically synchronize local source code with code in a Docker container without using volumes. 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