Relative path not working with named volumes in th

Question

I need to make a named volume use a relative path to the folder where the docker-compose command is executed.

Here is the volume definition in the docker-compose.yml

volumes:
  esdata1:
   driver: local 
   driver_opts:
      type: none
      device: ./esdata1
      o: bind

It seems that docker-compose do not create the folder if it does not exist, but even when the folder is created before lauching docker I'm always getting this error:

ERROR: for esdata  Cannot create container for service esdata: error while mounting volume with options: type='none' device='./esdata1' o='bind': no such file or directory

NOTE: This is maybe silly, but esdata is the service that use the named volume

  esdata:
    ...
    volumes:
      - esdata1:/usr/share/elasticsearch/data
    ...

What I'm missing here?

Maybe the relative path ./ does not point to the folder where the docker-compose is executed (I've tried with ~/ to use a folder relative the user's home but I got the same error).

Thanks in advance,

PS: If I use an absolute path it works like a charm

Answer 1

I encountered exactly the same issue. It seems that you have done nothing wrong. This is just not yet implemented in Docker : https://github.com/docker/compose/issues/6343

Not very nice for portability...