Centos/RHEL
Follow my answer below if you're using Centos7 with an x86-64 architecture. This answer is also available in my github.
Stop Your Docker Containers
I noticed other answers did not talk about stopping your docker containers/images instances before attempting to upgrade gracefully. Assumptions are inevitable but can be costly. Onward we go!
Options to update Docker-Compose
There are 2 options to upgrade docker-compose if you first downloaded and installed docker-compose using the Curl command.
- Using Curl, jq package, and Github's direct URL to the docker-compose repository.
- Using Curl, Sed, and Github's direct URL to the docker-compose repository.
Note: some of the commands below require "sudo" privileges.
Demonstration
The script below was saved to a file called "update_docker_compose.sh". You need to give this file executable permissions.
Like so:
chmod +x update_docker_compose.sh
"docker_docker_compose.sh" file content:
#!/bin/bash
# author: fullarray (stackoverflow user)
# Contribution shared on: stackoverflow.com
# Contribution also available on: github.com
# date: 06112022
# Stop current docker container running
docker stop containerID
# Remove current docker network running
docker rm containerID
# Remove image of target application(s)
docker image rm imageID
# Delete either dangling (unatagged images) docker containers or images or network
docker system prune -f
# This step depends on the jq package.
# Uncomment jq package installation command below if using Centos7 x86-64.
# sudo yum install jq
# Declare variable to get latest version of docker-compose from github repository
compose_version=$(curl https://api.github.com/repos/docker/compose/releases/latest | jq .name -r)
# Declare variable to target installation directory
target_install_dir='/usr/local/bin/docker-compose'
# Get OS and build (assumes Linux Centos7 and x86_64)
get_local_os_build=$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)
# Execute curl command to carry download and installation operation
curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/$compose_version/docker-compose-$get_local_os_build -o $target_install_dir
# Use chmod to modify permissions to target installation directory (to make it executable)
chmod +x $target_install_dir
# Print docker-compose version to terminal to verify upgrade
$(docker-compose --version)
Edit the script with variables specific to your environment
The script above has a few variables you need to edit with values specific to your docker environment. For instance, you need to replace container ID and image ID with the values that the following commands output.
docker ps
and
docker images output
Once you finalize creating the file (including the edits). Switch to the directory that contains the file. For example, if you created the file in /home/username/script/update_docker_compose.sh
cd /home/username/script
Last, run the script by executing the following
./update_docker_compose.sh
Option 2
Create a script file name "update_docker_compose.sh"
Edit the file and add the following content:
#!/bin/bash
# author: fullarray (stackoverflow user)
# Contribution shared on: stackoverflow.com
# Contribution also available on: github.com
# date: 06112022
# Stop current docker container running
docker stop containerID
# Remove current docker network running
docker rm containerID
# Remove image of target application(s)
docker image rm imageID
# Delete either dangling (unatagged images) docker containers or images or network
docker system prune -f
# Declare variable to target installation directory
target_install_dir='/usr/local/bin/docker-compose'
# Get OS and build (assumes Linux Centos7 and x86_64)
get_local_os_build=$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)
# Execute curl and sed command to carry out download and installation operation
# compose_latest_version=$(curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/`curl -fsSLI -o /dev/null -w %{url_effective} https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/latest | sed 's#.*tag/##g' && echo`/docker-compose-$get_local_os_build") -o $target_install_dir
# Use chmod to modify permissions to target installation directory (to make it executable)
chmod +x $target_install_dir
# Print docker-compose version to terminal to verify upgrade
$(docker-compose --version)
Edit the script with variables specific to your environment
The script above also has a few variables you need to edit with values specific to your docker environment. For instance, you need to replace container ID and image ID with the values that the following commands output.
docker ps
and
docker images output
Once you finalize creating the file (including the edits). Switch to the directory that contains the file. For example, if you created the file in /home/username/script/update_docker_compose.sh
cd /home/username/script
Last, run the script by executing the following
./update_docker_compose.sh
