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[BUG] Cannot use environment variable substitution when configuring the number of GPUs assigned to a service #10667

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@spew

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This is very similar to the issue in #2730, when using environment variable substitution in a compose file to set the number of GPUs assigned to a container, the following error occurs:

error decoding 'Deploy.Resources.Reservations.devices[0]': invalid string value for 'count' (the only value allowed is 'all')

Steps To Reproduce

Take the following docker-compose.yml

version: "3.8"
services:
  my-service:
    image: hello-world
    deploy:
      resources:
        reservations:
          devices:
            - driver: nvidia
              count: ${GPUS_PER_SERVER}
              capabilities: [gpu]

This command will fail:

$ export GPUS_PER_SERVER=1
$ docker compose up

1 error(s) decoding:

* error decoding 'Deploy.Resources.Reservations.devices[0]': invalid string value for 'count' (the only value allowed is 'all')

However, the following will succeed:

$ export GPUS_PER_SERVER="all"
$ docker compose up

[+] Running 2/2
 ✔ Network local_default   Created  
 ✔ Container my-service-1  Created 
Attaching to my-service-1
my-service-1  | Hello from Docker!

Compose Version

Docker Compose version v2.17.2

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