How to make all volumes use local driver or specify custom name for volume in docker-compose.yml

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For anyone who needs this, you can accomplish it as follows:

version: '3.9'
services:
  mysql:
    # ...  
    volumes: # Persistent data
      - persistent_vol:/var/lib/mysql
volumes:
  persistent_vol:
    name: ${MYSQL_PERSISTENT_VOLUME:-default-volume-name}
    driver: local
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