diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a48ebe6..0e6388a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -21,5 +21,5 @@ Completion files are generated **during build process** in `target/*/build/*/out
 Currently `ahab` respects three environment variables.
 
 - `COMPOSE_FILE`: control which docker-compose file is used - defaults to `docker/local/docker-compose.yaml`
-- `AHAB_DJANGO_CONTAINER`: control which  compose service is used for sending django commands - defaults to `appserver`
-- `AHAB_POSTGRES_CONTAINER`: control which compose service is used for sending postgres commands - defaults to `postgresdb`
+- `AHAB_DJANGO_CONTAINER`: control which  compose service is used for sending django commands - defaults to `django`
+- `AHAB_POSTGRES_CONTAINER`: control which compose service is used for sending postgres commands - defaults to `db`
diff --git a/src/cli/docker_compose.rs b/src/cli/docker_compose.rs
index b517229..3de53c3 100644
--- a/src/cli/docker_compose.rs
+++ b/src/cli/docker_compose.rs
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ pub enum DockerCompose {
         rest: Vec<String>,
     },
 
-    /// Print services 
+    /// Print services
     Ps,
 
     /// Stop, build and start containers.
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index d2e09d9..05a3559 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -34,8 +34,7 @@ fn main() -> Result<()> {
             cli::Django::Test => scripts::django::test(),
         },
         cli::Commands::Postgres { command } => {
-            let db_container =
-                std::env::var("AHAB_POSTGRES_CONTAINER").unwrap_or("postgresdb".to_string());
+            let db_container = std::env::var("AHAB_POSTGRES_CONTAINER").unwrap_or("db".to_string());
             match command {
                 cli::Postgres::Import { path } => scripts::postgres::import(&db_container, &path),
                 cli::Postgres::Dump { path } => scripts::postgres::dump(&db_container, &path),
diff --git a/src/scripts/django.rs b/src/scripts/django.rs
index 649afef..83e3bff 100644
--- a/src/scripts/django.rs
+++ b/src/scripts/django.rs
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ pub fn make_command(app: &PathBuf, name: &str) -> Result<()> {
 }
 
 pub fn manage(rest: &[String]) -> Result<()> {
-    let container = env::var("AHAB_DJANGO_CONTAINER").unwrap_or("appserver".to_string());
+    let container = env::var("AHAB_DJANGO_CONTAINER").unwrap_or("django".to_string());
     let joined = rest.join(" ");
     let command = format!("run --rm {container} python manage.py {joined}");
     CommandBuilder::docker_compose().args(&command).exec()
diff --git a/src/scripts/docker_compose.rs b/src/scripts/docker_compose.rs
index 0f754a7..c5d403f 100644
--- a/src/scripts/docker_compose.rs
+++ b/src/scripts/docker_compose.rs
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ pub fn down() -> Result<()> {
 }
 
 pub fn exec(rest: &[String]) -> Result<()> {
-    let container = std::env::var("AHAB_DJANGO_CONTAINER").unwrap_or("appserver".to_string());
+    let container = std::env::var("AHAB_DJANGO_CONTAINER").unwrap_or("django".to_string());
     CommandBuilder::docker_compose()
         .args("exec")
         .args(&container)