Support newer version of docker-compose

[zbyte64]

Currently only docker-compose 1.5.0 or older will work with the installed version of docker. This means version 2 of the docker-compose.yml format is incompatible with circle ci.

[vegasbrianc]

Any updates to this? version 2 compose files contain features which I need for my project to run and I would imagine more and more version 2 files will come while version 1 files are slowly being phased out.

[adrielldagasuan]

i also agree. need version 2 to specify image name in the build (unless someone knows how to specifically define image name in version 1 compose files that would be of great help).

[ygotthilf]

I found a solution thanks to @adrien-dong 👍 . In your circle.yml :

machine:
  pre:
   - curl -sSL https://s3.amazonaws.com/circle-downloads/install-circleci-docker.sh | bash -s -- 1.10.0
   - sudo pip install docker-compose

The versions should be :

• docker 1.10.0-circleci
• docker-compose 1.8

[vegasbrianc]

Hi @ygotthilf Are you using version 2 compose files? I tried your suggestion but now it is not compatible with the engine version which is keeps failing to upgrade

[deepflame]

Great stuff @ygotthilf but unfortunately caching docker layers does not work with 1.10...

Issue: moby/moby#20380
https://circleci.com/docs/docker/#caching-docker-layers

[portenez]

I applied @ygotthilf 's workaround and it worked for a while, but then all of a sudden it doesn't work. Has anyone bump into this problem again?

All of a sudden the workaround doesn't update docker compose:

docker-compose version
docker-compose version 1.5.2, build 7240ff3
docker-py version: 1.5.0
CPython version: 2.7.9
OpenSSL version: OpenSSL 1.0.1e 11 Feb 2013

[ryansch]

I just fixed this in our app this morning.

Replace sudo pip install docker-compose with:

    - curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.10.0/docker-compose-`uname -s`-`uname -m` > /home/ubuntu/bin/docker-compose
    - chmod +x /home/ubuntu/bin/docker-compose
    - docker-compose version

I went with /home/ubuntu/bin as it's earlier in the PATH than /usr/local/bin which even root doesn't have access to.

[iamdave92]

Thanks @ryansch, we just started seeing that error here too, and your suggestion fixed it for us.

[kevunix]

FYI if you ran into docker-compose.yml version issue in the past day or so.

https://discuss.circleci.com/t/docker-compose-version-change/9685

[yookoala]

I went with this:

    - curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.10.0/docker-compose-`uname -s`-`uname -m` > /home/ubuntu/bin/docker-compose
    - chmod +x /home/ubuntu/bin/docker-compose
    - docker-compose version

Then when I try to run docker-compose up -d some-service in Circle, this error appears

ERROR: The Docker Engine version is less than the minimum required by Compose. Your
current project requires a Docker Engine of version 1.10.0 or greater.

[CrimsonGlory]

for those reaching here in 2021, the easier way to install compose is adding the following two lines after the first line (version 2.1):

orbs:
    docker: circelci/docker@1.7.0

Then on each job, there should be a step with just (without run):

  - docker/install-docker-compose