diff --git a/docker/catalog/services/forward-migration.yaml b/docker/catalog/services/forward-migration.yaml
index 3e284d525f..6890612a27 100644
--- a/docker/catalog/services/forward-migration.yaml
+++ b/docker/catalog/services/forward-migration.yaml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ name: forward-migration
 description: One-shot runner for pending forward SQL migrations
 image: postgres:16-alpine
 layer: infrastructure
-container_name: omnibase-forward-migration
+container_name: omnibase-infra-forward-migration
 required_env:
   - POSTGRES_PASSWORD
 hardcoded_env:
diff --git a/docker/docker-compose.infra.yml b/docker/docker-compose.infra.yml
index 0ca06a30b7..424340dc83 100644
--- a/docker/docker-compose.infra.yml
+++ b/docker/docker-compose.infra.yml
@@ -608,7 +608,14 @@ services:
   # successfully before checking the sentinel flag.
   forward-migration:
     image: postgres:16-alpine
-    container_name: omnibase-forward-migration
+    # Project-namespaced to match the omnibase-infra-* convention used by every
+    # other base service (postgres, redpanda, valkey, ...). The bare
+    # "omnibase-forward-migration" name was the one base container_name NOT
+    # carrying the lane prefix, so it collided across compose projects on the
+    # same host (e.g. a leftover dev-lane container blocked a stability rebuild).
+    # Lane overlays append their lane segment, yielding the derivable form
+    # <compose-project>-forward-migration that deploy-runtime.sh waits on (OMN-12987).
+    container_name: omnibase-infra-forward-migration
     profiles: ["runtime", "full"]
     depends_on:
       postgres:
diff --git a/scripts/deploy-runtime.sh b/scripts/deploy-runtime.sh
index 8348244e6e..e2b352917c 100755
--- a/scripts/deploy-runtime.sh
+++ b/scripts/deploy-runtime.sh
@@ -1594,7 +1594,14 @@ run_runtime_migration_preflight() {
         log_cmd "${cmd[*]}"
         "${cmd[@]}"
         if [[ "${service}" == "forward-migration" ]]; then
-            local wait_cmd=(docker wait omnibase-forward-migration)
+            # Derive the container name from the compose project so the wait
+            # targets the lane being deployed, not a fixed name. The base
+            # compose names it <compose-project>-forward-migration and each
+            # lane overlay follows the same form (OMN-12987), so this resolves
+            # to omnibase-infra-forward-migration for dev and
+            # omnibase-infra-stability-test-forward-migration for stability.
+            local forward_migration_container="${compose_project}-forward-migration"
+            local wait_cmd=(docker wait "${forward_migration_container}")
             log_cmd "${wait_cmd[*]}"
             if [[ "$("${wait_cmd[@]}")" != "0" ]]; then
                 log_error "forward-migration did not complete successfully."
@@ -1603,9 +1610,15 @@ run_runtime_migration_preflight() {
         fi
     done
 
+    # Postgres follows the same lane-derivable naming as forward-migration:
+    # <compose-project>-postgres (omnibase-infra-postgres for dev,
+    # omnibase-infra-stability-test-postgres for stability). Deriving it keeps
+    # the projection-table probe pointed at the lane being deployed instead of
+    # always hitting the dev-lane postgres (OMN-12987).
+    local postgres_container="${compose_project}-postgres"
     for table_name in "${REQUIRED_PROJECTION_TABLES[@]}"; do
         local check_cmd=(
-            docker exec omnibase-infra-postgres
+            docker exec "${postgres_container}"
             psql
             -U postgres
             -d omnidash_analytics
diff --git a/tests/integration/infra/test_stability_test_runtime_compose_render.py b/tests/integration/infra/test_stability_test_runtime_compose_render.py
index a9a7079a6f..445805d0a8 100644
--- a/tests/integration/infra/test_stability_test_runtime_compose_render.py
+++ b/tests/integration/infra/test_stability_test_runtime_compose_render.py
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@
     "omnibase-infra-postgres",
     "omnibase-infra-redpanda",
     "omnibase-infra-valkey",
-    "omnibase-forward-migration",
+    "omnibase-infra-forward-migration",
     "omnibase-infra-infisical",
     "omninode-agent-actions-consumer",
     "omninode-skill-lifecycle-consumer",
diff --git a/tests/unit/infra/test_stability_test_runtime_lane.py b/tests/unit/infra/test_stability_test_runtime_lane.py
index c26e0f4b6b..ccb581d00e 100644
--- a/tests/unit/infra/test_stability_test_runtime_lane.py
+++ b/tests/unit/infra/test_stability_test_runtime_lane.py
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
     "omnibase-infra-postgres",
     "omnibase-infra-redpanda",
     "omnibase-infra-valkey",
-    "omnibase-forward-migration",
+    "omnibase-infra-forward-migration",
     "omnibase-infra-infisical",
     "omninode-agent-actions-consumer",
     "omninode-skill-lifecycle-consumer",