Install Docker Compose on Linux

Docker compose is an orchestration tool for running multiple Docker containers at once. You can define multiple docker container configurations in a single YAML file and use it to run the docker containers. Let’s learn to install docker-compose on the Linux operating system

• Find the architecture of the Linux Operating System
• Download the Docker Compose Binary for the Linux
• Rename and make Docker Compose Binary Executable
• Learn More

Find the architecture of the Linux Operating System

You need to download the binary of Docker Compose from their release page and for that, you need to know the architecture of your Linux Operating System. In your Linux terminal type the arch command

arch

Download the Docker Compose Binary for the Linux

To download the Docker Compose binary you need to visit their release page

https://github.com/docker/compose/releases

You will see the latest version number released at the top. Scroll down and you will find the binary for your Linux operating system architecture which we found in the previous step.

Download the binary by copying the link and using the wget command

 wget https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/v2.27.0/docker-compose-linux-x86_64

Rename and make Docker Compose Binary Executable

Renaming the binary is important because we want to access it by the name docker-compose and also making it executable is important

mv docker-compose-linux-x86_64 docker-compose
chomd +x docker-compose

Now move the binary to /usr/bin folder of the Linux such that it is accessible from anywhere

sudo mv docker-compose /usr/bin

Now just type the docker-compose command in your terminal and you will see the different options that the docker-compose binary provides you to work on

docker-compose

Learn More

• CodeWithRajRanjan YouTube Channel
• Awesome Docker Compose
• Ten important commands in Docker