A Linux administrator is running a multi-container application that was started with docker compose up -d. The Compose file declares a named volume called db_data for a PostgreSQL service. After validating a new release, the administrator wants to shut down the stack in a way that
stops every container,
removes the Compose-created networks,
leaves both the container images and the db_data named volume in place so that data is preserved for the next run.
docker compose down without any additional flags stops the service containers and deletes the networks created by Compose, but it does not remove named volumes or images. Volumes are only deleted when the -v/--volumes option is supplied, and images are removed only when the --rmi option is present. Therefore this command preserves the db_data volume and the local images while tearing the stack down. Adding --volumes would delete the database volume, --rmi all would also delete images (which is unnecessary here), and docker compose stop would merely stop containers without removing the networks, leaving the stack partially in place.
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