diff --git a/lib/app.js b/lib/app.js
index 6af6624c..e02b9909 100644
--- a/lib/app.js
+++ b/lib/app.js
@@ -272,27 +272,36 @@ module.exports = class App {
     // We should only need to initialize once, if we have just go right to app ready
     if (this.initialized) return this.events.emit('ready', this);
     // Get compose data if we have any, otherwise set to []
-    const composeFiles = require('../utils/load-compose-files')(_.get(this, 'config.compose', []), this.root);
-    this.composeData = [new this.ComposeService('compose', {}, ...composeFiles)];
-    // Validate and set env files
-    this.envFiles = require('../utils/normalize-files')(_.get(this, 'config.env_file', []), this.root);
-    // Log some things
-    this.log.verbose('initiatilizing app at %s...', this.root);
-    this.log.silly('app has config', this.config);
+    return require('../utils/load-compose-files')(
+      _.get(this, 'config.compose', []),
+      this.root,
+      this._dir,
+      (composeFiles, outputFilePath) =>
+        this.engine.getComposeConfig({compose: composeFiles, project: this.project, outputFilePath}),
+    )
+
+    .then(composeFile => {
+      this.composeData = [new this.ComposeService('compose', {}, composeFile)];
+      // Validate and set env files
+      this.envFiles = require('../utils/normalize-files')(_.get(this, 'config.env_file', []), this.root);
+      // Log some things
+      this.log.verbose('initiatilizing app at %s...', this.root);
+      this.log.silly('app has config', this.config);
 
-    /**
-     * Event that allows altering of the app object right before it is
-     * initialized.
-     *
-     * Note that this is a global event so it is invoked with `lando.events.on`
-     * not `app.events.on` See example below:
-     *
-     * @since 3.0.0
-     * @alias app.events:pre-init
-     * @event pre_init
-     * @property {App} app The app instance.
-     */
-    return loadPlugins(this, this._lando).then(() => this.events.emit('pre-init', this))
+      /**
+       * Event that allows altering of the app object right before it is
+       * initialized.
+       *
+       * Note that this is a global event so it is invoked with `lando.events.on`
+       * not `app.events.on` See example below:
+       *
+       * @since 3.0.0
+       * @alias app.events:pre-init
+       * @event pre_init
+       * @property {App} app The app instance.
+       */
+      return loadPlugins(this, this._lando).then(() => this.events.emit('pre-init', this))
+    })
 
     // Actually assemble this thing so its ready for that engine
     .then(() => {
diff --git a/lib/compose.js b/lib/compose.js
index 1c09a3ac..cd2890da 100644
--- a/lib/compose.js
+++ b/lib/compose.js
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ const composeFlags = {
   rm: '--rm',
   timestamps: '--timestamps',
   volumes: '-v',
+  outputFilePath: '-o',
 };
 
 // Default options nad things
@@ -33,6 +34,7 @@ const defaultOptions = {
   pull: {},
   rm: {force: true, volumes: true},
   up: {background: true, noRecreate: true, recreate: false, removeOrphans: true},
+  config: {},
 };
 
 /*
@@ -127,3 +129,8 @@ exports.start = (compose, project, opts = {}) => buildShell('up', project, compo
  * Run docker compose kill
  */
 exports.stop = (compose, project, opts = {}) => buildShell('kill', project, compose, opts);
+
+/*
+ * Run docker compose config
+ */
+exports.config = (compose, project, opts = {}) => buildShell('config', project, compose, opts);
diff --git a/lib/engine.js b/lib/engine.js
index 4e25b78f..c98f27cc 100644
--- a/lib/engine.js
+++ b/lib/engine.js
@@ -479,5 +479,25 @@ module.exports = class Engine {
     // stop
     return this.engineCmd('stop', data);
   };
+
+  /**
+   * Get dumped docker compose config for compose files from project
+   * using a `compose` object with `{compose: compose, project: project, opts: opts}`
+   *
+   * @since 3.0.0
+   * @param {Object} data Config needs a service within a compose context
+   * @param {Array} data.compose An Array of paths to Docker compose files
+   * @param {String} data.project A String of the project name (Usually this is the same as the app name)
+   * @param {String} [data.outputFilePath='/path/to/file.yml'] String to output path
+   * @param {Object} [data.opts] Options
+   * @return {Promise} A Promise.
+   * @example
+   * return lando.engine.stop(app);
+   */
+  getComposeConfig(data) {
+    data.opts = {cmd: ['-o', data.outputFilePath]};
+    delete data.outputFilePath;
+    return this.engineCmd('config', data);
+  };
 };
 
diff --git a/lib/router.js b/lib/router.js
index 6c27d148..a6a7c67f 100644
--- a/lib/router.js
+++ b/lib/router.js
@@ -131,3 +131,5 @@ exports.start = (data, compose) => retryEach(data, datum => compose('start', dat
 exports.stop = (data, compose, docker) => retryEach(data, datum => {
   return (datum.compose) ? compose('stop', datum) : docker.stop(getContainerId(datum));
 });
+
+exports.config = (data, compose) => retryEach(data, datum => compose('config', datum));
diff --git a/utils/get-app-mounts.js b/utils/get-app-mounts.js
index 694ffedb..521b4af7 100644
--- a/utils/get-app-mounts.js
+++ b/utils/get-app-mounts.js
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ module.exports = app => _(app.services)
   // Objectify
   .map(service => _.merge({name: service}, _.get(app, `config.services.${service}`, {})))
   // Set the default
-  .map(config => _.merge({}, config, {app_mount: _.get(config, 'app_mount', 'cached')}))
+  .map(config => _.merge({}, config, {app_mount: _.get(config, 'app_mount', app.config.app_mount || 'cached')}))
   // Filter out disabled mountes
   .filter(config => config.app_mount !== false && config.app_mount !== 'disabled')
   // Combine together
diff --git a/utils/load-compose-files.js b/utils/load-compose-files.js
index f13bf4ce..a685f79d 100644
--- a/utils/load-compose-files.js
+++ b/utils/load-compose-files.js
@@ -2,8 +2,20 @@
 
 const _ = require('lodash');
 const Yaml = require('./../lib/yaml');
+const path = require('path');
 const yaml = new Yaml();
+const fs = require('fs');
 
-module.exports = (files, dir) => _(require('./normalize-files')(files, dir))
-  .map(file => yaml.load(file))
-  .value();
+// This just runs `docker compose --project-directory ${dir} config -f ${files} --output ${outputPaths}` to
+// make all paths relative to the lando config root
+module.exports = async (files, dir, landoComposeConfigDir, outputConfigFunction) => {
+  const composeFilePaths = _(require('./normalize-files')(files, dir)).value();
+  const outputFile = path.join(landoComposeConfigDir, 'resolved-compose-config.yml');
+
+  fs.mkdirSync(path.dirname(outputFile), {recursive: true});
+  await outputConfigFunction(composeFilePaths, outputFile);
+  const result = yaml.load(outputFile);
+  fs.unlinkSync(outputFile);
+
+  return result;
+};