diff --git a/scripts/ci_container_smoke.sh b/scripts/ci_container_smoke.sh
index d6207dd..1f11d62 100644
--- a/scripts/ci_container_smoke.sh
+++ b/scripts/ci_container_smoke.sh
@@ -2,20 +2,24 @@
 set -euo pipefail
 
 container_name="magent-ci-${GITHUB_RUN_ID:-local}-$$"
-data_dir="$(mktemp -d)"
-chmod 0777 "$data_dir"
+volume_name="${container_name}-data"
 cleanup() {
   docker rm -f "$container_name" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
-  rm -rf "$data_dir"
+  docker volume rm -f "$volume_name" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
 }
 trap cleanup EXIT
 
 docker build --tag magent:ci .
+docker volume create "$volume_name" >/dev/null
+docker run --rm --user 0 \
+  --volume "$volume_name:/app/data" \
+  --entrypoint chown \
+  magent:ci -R 1000:1000 /app/data
 docker run --detach --name "$container_name" \
   --read-only --cap-drop ALL --security-opt no-new-privileges:true \
   --tmpfs /tmp:rw,noexec,nosuid,size=64m,uid=1000,gid=1000 \
   --tmpfs /app/frontend/.next/cache:rw,noexec,nosuid,size=128m,uid=1000,gid=1000 \
-  --volume "$data_dir:/app/data" \
+  --volume "$volume_name:/app/data" \
   --env JWT_SECRET=ci-only-secret-with-at-least-32-characters \
   --env SETTINGS_ENCRYPTION_KEY=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA= \
   --env ADMIN_PASSWORD=ci-only-bootstrap-password-123 \