diff --git a/playbooks/deploy-compose.yml b/playbooks/deploy-compose.yml
index 842ee85..3f2db90 100644
--- a/playbooks/deploy-compose.yml
+++ b/playbooks/deploy-compose.yml
@@ -70,6 +70,15 @@
         owner: "{{ ansible_user }}"
         group: docker
         mode: 0640
+      register: _stack_file_state
+
+    - name: Remove the existing stack
+      when: _stack_file_state.changed is true
+      docker_stack:
+        name: "{{ _runtime_application }}"
+        state: absent
+        compose:
+          - "{{ omni_docker_configs }}/{{ _runtime_application }}/docker-compose.yaml"
 
     - name: Deploy the stack
       docker_stack: