Creates an in-memory temporary filesystem for the service.

Section: Volumes and Storage

Use tmpfs mount

yaml
yaml
services:
  app:
    image: myapp:latest
    tmpfs:
      - /tmp
Explanation

Useful for ephemeral scratch data.

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