Docker Compose guide

This process is valid for Ubuntu 22.04 and 23.x

1. Install Docker Compose plugin from Docker official apt repo

Only follow the Docker official installation.

1. Official Docker on Ubuntu using APT repo
2. Personal Docker guide

2. Install Docker Compose plugin on existing Docker Engine

• https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-use-docker-compose-on-ubuntu-22-04

1. Installation

You have to install Docker Engine before.

$ mkdir -p ~/.docker/cli-plugins/
$ curl -SL https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/v2.3.3/docker-compose-linux-x86_64 -o ~/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose

$ chmod +x ~/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose

$ docker compose version

Docker Compose version v2.3.3

Running a simple application

You can get the docker-compose and other files here:

• https://github.com/chilcano/how-tos/tree/main/doc/docker-compose-example

$ mkdir app

$ nano app/index.html

$ nano docker-compose.app-simple.yaml

$ docker compose -f docker-compose.app-simple.yaml up -d

$ docker compose ls

NAME                STATUS              CONFIG FILES
app-simple          running(1)          /home/chilcano/repos-aa/vocdoni/vocdoni-infra/docs/ether-node/app-simple/docker-compose.app-simple.yaml

$ docker compose ps

no configuration file provided: not found

$ docker compose -f docker-compose.app-simple.yaml ps

NAME                COMMAND                  SERVICE             STATUS              PORTS
app-simple-web-1    "/docker-entrypoint.…"   web                 running             0.0.0.0:8181->80/tcp, :::8181->80/tcp