In some of the previous posts I’ve covered how you can install docker-compose on Linux distributions like Rocky Linux for example. It’s pretty easy to set it up, right?! Usually when we spin up instances in the cloud we are working with x86_64 processors instruction set under the hood. But, if we try to install docker compose on instance running on arm64 following the default installation instructions, we’ll get an error.
This is because there is no docker-compose binary available for arm64 instruction set, atleast not in the latest release at the time of writing, which is version v.1.0.17. There are a few ways we can get docker-compose installed and running on arm64. Let’s see it in the following steps below.
Note: Compose v2 (pre-release) has arm7 and arm64 binaries available.
Prerequisites
- Arm64 Linux distribution
Install Compose using pip
You need to have pip or pip3 installed. Then, just run the following code:
pip install docker-compose
or
pip3 install docker-compose
Install Compose as a container
Install Compose as a container using a bash script wrapper:
sudo curl -L --fail https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.29.2/run.sh -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
Uninstall Compose
Uninstall Compose installed via pip or pip3:
pip uninstall docker-compose
or
pip3 uninstall docker-compose
Uninstall Compose installed via curl:
sudo rm /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
Conclusion
Installing Docker Compose on arm64 is just as easy as the x86_64 one. At the end of the day, I think it might be more convinient to install and run docker-compose as a container instead as a binary just because we almost treat everything as a microservice in the cloud, or we can simple wait Compose v2 to be stable and ready as a non-beta release.
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