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From: "LocalAI [bot]" <139863280+localai-bot@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:18:53 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix: Add named volumes for Windows Docker compatibility
 (#8661)

- Added named volumes (models, images) to docker-compose.yaml
- Added named volumes (models, backends) to .devcontainer/docker-compose-devcontainer.yml
- Changed bind mounts to named volumes for Windows compatibility

Fixes #8455

Signed-off-by: localai-bot <localai-bot@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: localai-bot <localai-bot@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 .devcontainer/docker-compose-devcontainer.yml | 8 ++++++--
 docker-compose.yaml                           | 8 ++++++--
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.devcontainer/docker-compose-devcontainer.yml b/.devcontainer/docker-compose-devcontainer.yml
index 81610ade5..9841e9d59 100644
--- a/.devcontainer/docker-compose-devcontainer.yml
+++ b/.devcontainer/docker-compose-devcontainer.yml
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ services:
       - 8080:8080
     volumes:
       - localai_workspace:/workspace
-      - ../models:/host-models
+      - models:/host-models
+      - backends:/host-backends
       - ./customization:/devcontainer-customization
     command: /bin/sh -c "while sleep 1000; do :; done"
     cap_add:
@@ -39,6 +40,9 @@ services:
       - GF_SECURITY_ADMIN_PASSWORD=grafana
     volumes:
       - ./grafana:/etc/grafana/provisioning/datasources
+
 volumes:
   prom_data:
-  localai_workspace:
\ No newline at end of file
+  localai_workspace:
+  models:
+  backends:
diff --git a/docker-compose.yaml b/docker-compose.yaml
index 765a3fb63..9523457bc 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yaml
+++ b/docker-compose.yaml
@@ -20,10 +20,14 @@ services:
       - MODELS_PATH=/models
     #  - DEBUG=true
     volumes:
-      - ./models:/models:cached
-      - ./images/:/tmp/generated/images/
+      - models:/models
+      - images:/tmp/generated/images/
     command:
     # Here we can specify a list of models to run (see quickstart https://localai.io/basics/getting_started/#running-models )
     # or an URL pointing to a YAML configuration file, for example:
     # - https://gist.githubusercontent.com/mudler/ad601a0488b497b69ec549150d9edd18/raw/a8a8869ef1bb7e3830bf5c0bae29a0cce991ff8d/phi-2.yaml
     - phi-2
+
+volumes:
+  models:
+  images: