Install Docker Compose
You can run Compose on OS X, Windows and 64-bit Linux. To install it, you’ll need to install Docker first.
To install Compose, do the following:
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Install Docker Engine:
other system installations
The Docker Toolbox installation includes both Engine and Compose, so Mac and Windows users are done installing. Others should continue to the next step.
Go to the Compose repository release page on GitHub.
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Follow the instructions from the release page and run the
curl
command, which the release page specifies, in your terminal.Note: If you get a “Permission denied” error, your
/usr/local/bin
directory probably isn’t writable and you’ll need to install Compose as the superuser. Runsudo -i
, then the two commands below, thenexit
.The following is an example command illustrating the format:
curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.7.1/docker-compose-`uname -s`-`uname -m` > /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
If you have problems installing with
curl
, see Alternative Install Options. -
Apply executable permissions to the binary:
$ chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
Optionally, install command completion for the
bash
andzsh
shell.-
Test the installation.
$ docker-compose --version docker-compose version: 1.7.1
Alternative install options
Install using pip
Compose can be installed from pypi using pip
. If you install using pip
it is highly recommended that you use a virtualenv because many operating systems have python system packages that conflict with docker-compose dependencies. See the virtualenv tutorial to get started.
$ pip install docker-compose
Note: pip version 6.0 or greater is required
Install as a container
Compose can also be run inside a container, from a small bash script wrapper. To install compose as a container run:
$ curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.7.1/run.sh > /usr/local/bin/docker-compose $ chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
Master builds
If you’re interested in trying out a pre-release build you can download a binary from https://dl.bintray.com/docker-compose/master/. Pre-release builds allow you to try out new features before they are released, but may be less stable.
Upgrading
If you’re upgrading from Compose 1.2 or earlier, you’ll need to remove or migrate your existing containers after upgrading Compose. This is because, as of version 1.3, Compose uses Docker labels to keep track of containers, and so they need to be recreated with labels added.
If Compose detects containers that were created without labels, it will refuse to run so that you don’t end up with two sets of them. If you want to keep using your existing containers (for example, because they have data volumes you want to preserve) you can use compose 1.5.x to migrate them with the following command:
$ docker-compose migrate-to-labels
Alternatively, if you’re not worried about keeping them, you can remove them. Compose will just create new ones.
$ docker rm -f -v myapp_web_1 myapp_db_1 ...
Uninstallation
To uninstall Docker Compose if you installed using curl
:
$ rm /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
To uninstall Docker Compose if you installed using pip
:
$ pip uninstall docker-compose
Note: If you get a “Permission denied” error using either of the above methods, you probably do not have the proper permissions to remove
docker-compose
. To force the removal, prependsudo
to either of the above commands and run again.
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