Install Docker Compose on CentOS Stream 8

This guide will show you how to Install the Latest Docker Compose on CentOS Stream 8.

Docker Compose is a tool designed to define and release multicontainer applications. With Compose, you can create a YAML file to define the services that you can start or stop with a single command.

Definitely, access to the Terminal as a user with sudo privileges.

Step 1: You need curl and wget installed on your system for this operation

### CentOS / RHEL ###
sudo yum -y install curl wget

Step 2: Once curl has been installed, download the latest Compose on your Linux machine

curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/docker/compose/releases/latest | grep browser_download_url  | grep docker-compose-linux-x86_64 | cut -d '"' -f 4 | wget -qi -

Step 3: Make the binary file executable

chmod +x docker-compose-linux-x86_64

Step 4: Move the file to your PATH

sudo mv docker-compose-linux-x86_64 /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

Step 5: Confirm version.

docker-compose version
Docker Compose version v2.2.3

Configure Compose Command-line completion

Compose has command completion for the bash shell.

Step 1: Place the completion script in /etc/bash_completion.d/

sudo curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/docker/compose/master/contrib/completion/bash/docker-compose -o /etc/bash_completion.d/docker-compose

Step 2: Source the file or re-login to enjoy completion feature

source /etc/bash_completion.d/docker-compose

Test Docker Compose installation

Step 1: Create a test Docker Compose file

vim docker-compose.yml

# or

nano docker-compose.yml

Step 2: Add below data to the file

version: '3'  
services:
  web:
    image: nginx:latest
    ports:
     - "8080:80"
    links:
     - php
  php:
    image: php:7-fpm

Step 3: Start service containers

docker-compose up -d
[+] Running 17/17
 ⠿ php Pulled          13.6s            13.6s                                                                                        
   ⠿ 5eb5b503b376 Pull complete         2.8s                                                                                    
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 ⠿ web Pulled                          11.0s                                                                                    
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[+] Running 3/3
 ⠿ Network bitwarden_default  Created   0.2s                                                                                   
 ⠿ Container bitwarden-php-1  Started   6.9s                                                                                    
 ⠿ Container bitwarden-web-1  Started   1.3s

Step 4: Show running Containers

docker-compose ps
NAME                COMMAND                  SERVICE             STATUS              PORTS
bitwarden-php-1     "docker-php-entrypoi…"   php                 running             9000/tcp
bitwarden-web-1     "/docker-entrypoint.…"   web                 running             0.0.0.0:8080->80/tcp, :::8080->80/tcp

Step 5: Destroy containers

docker-compose stop
[+] Running 2/2
 ⠿ Container bitwarden-web-1  Stopped       0.2s                                                                                
 ⠿ Container bitwarden-php-1  Stopped       0.1s



docker-compose rm -f
Going to remove bitwarden-web-1, bitwarden-php-1
[+] Running 2/0
 ⠿ Container bitwarden-web-1  Removed       0.0s                                                                                
 ⠿ Container bitwarden-php-1  Removed       0.0s

Go through Official Docker documentation and Docker Compose documentation to learn more. Source of this Tutorial: https://computingforgeeks.com/how-to-install-latest-docker-compose-on-linux/ and self-tested by me.

If you have any questions please leave it in the comments and if you need Docker management UI which allows you to easily manage your different Docker hosts and containers, please give Portainer a try. It is easy to install and use. You can find the Tutorial here: . 🙂