diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 50d2cab..73d0376 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -99,9 +99,6 @@ For development/testing:
 # Build the local dev/test image
 make build-dev
 
-# Create the Airflow DB volume during the first setup
-docker volume create --name=airflow-db-volume
-
 # Start dev/test services
 make deploy-dev
 
diff --git a/docker-compose-dev.yml b/docker-compose-dev.yml
index 2d080d8..f5b0daf 100644
--- a/docker-compose-dev.yml
+++ b/docker-compose-dev.yml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ x-docker-common: &docker-common
     context: .
     dockerfile: Dockerfile.test
   volumes:
-    - airflow-db-volume:/opt/airflow/
+    - ./airflow.db:/opt/airflow/airflow.db
     # you can comment out the following line if you don't have service-account.json
     - ./service-account.json:/opt/airflow/service-account.json
   restart: unless-stopped
@@ -30,7 +30,3 @@ services:
     depends_on:
       - airflow
     command: scheduler
-
-volumes:
-  airflow-db-volume:
-    external: true
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index 6326e99..c0ea614 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ x-docker-common: &docker-common
   image: asia-east1-docker.pkg.dev/pycontw-225217/data-team/pycon-etl:latest
   volumes:
     - ./service-account.json:/opt/airflow/service-account.json
-    - airflow-db-volume:/opt/airflow/
+    - ./airflow.db:/opt/airflow/airflow.db
   restart: unless-stopped
   logging:
     driver: json-file
@@ -26,7 +26,3 @@ services:
     depends_on:
       - airflow
     command: scheduler
-
-volumes:
-  airflow-db-volume:
-    external: true