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Over the years, I have gravitated to keeping docker compose, configs, et al, in structured directories in lieu of docker just splattering the HDD willie-nilly, with configs anywhere and everywhere. It sure makes problem solving much easier when you can go directly to where each component is instead of spending 30 minutes trying to
locatewhere docker put everything.