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docker-compose

brew install docker-compose v5.1.4 Apache-2.0

Go tool that defines and runs multi-container Docker applications via YAML configuration.

Why you might care

Docker Compose lets you orchestrate multiple containers locally with a single `docker-compose up` command, avoiding repetitive container-by-container setup. Essential for development workflows where your app needs a database, cache, message queue, etc. running together. V2 is now the recommended single-binary implementation (written in Go).

Categories

container-runtime orchestration

Alternatives

podman-compose Kubernetes docker
24.8k
30-day installs · #209
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90-day · #196
367.7k
365-day · #184

Build dependencies

go

Links

Caveats

Compose is a Docker plugin. For Docker to find the plugin, add "cliPluginsExtraDirs" to ~/.docker/config.json:
  "cliPluginsExtraDirs": [
      "$HOMEBREW_PREFIX/lib/docker/cli-plugins"
  ]

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