To make sure you obtain the most updated stable version of Docker Compose, you’ll download this software from its official Github repository.
First, confirm the latest version available in their releases page. At the time of this writing, the most current stable version is 2.18.1.
The following command will download the 2.18.1 release and save the executable file at /usr/local/bin/docker-compose, which will make this software globally accessible as docker-compose:
$ sudo curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/v2.18.1/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
Next, set the correct permissions so that the docker-compose command is executable:
$ sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
To verify that the installation was successful, you can run:
$ docker-compose --version
You’ll see output similar to this:
Output docker-compose version 2.18.1, build 5becea4c
Docker Compose is now successfully installed on your system. In the next section, you’ll see how to set up a
docker-compose.yml
file and get a containerized environment up and running with this tool.
