I wrote a lil tool that goes through a Docker Compose file and for each bind mount, creates the folder on the host with correct permissions. The only thing you'll have to do is tell it about the desired state: volumes: - type: bind source: /opt/test2 target: /foo x-setup: 1000:1000:700 # uid:gid:mode https://codeberg.org/larsrh/docker-bindmount-setup