diff --git a/.github/workflows/e2e_tests.yml b/.github/workflows/e2e_tests.yml
index 4c002221..ce3b31ab 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/e2e_tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/e2e_tests.yml
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ jobs:
             # TODO this should be enhanced to use a buildx bake to leverage layer caching for faster builds, or push to repo and simply have a pull for the run
             # TODO docker-compose files should be refactored to use scopes instead of different versions for each environment
             docker-compose -f ./docker-compose-github.yml pull
-            docker-compose -f ./docker-compose-github.yml up -d  
+            docker-compose -f ./docker-compose-github.yml up -d --build 
             echo "logs datadb ..."
             docker logs datadb
             #docker-compose -f docker-compose-github.yml  logs datadb
diff --git a/docker-compose-github.yml b/docker-compose-github.yml
index cc03da6a..36a5ae2b 100644
--- a/docker-compose-github.yml
+++ b/docker-compose-github.yml
@@ -31,10 +31,6 @@ services:
     restart: always
     ports:
       - 5433:5432
-    #volumes:
-    #  - ./data/datadb:/var/lib/postgresql/data
-    #env_file:
-    #  - .env
 
   recipedb:
     platform: linux/amd64