Is there a way to keep "docker-compose" up-to-date using "apt-get update" or similar?

[nunoperalta]

The version from pip seems to be V1

And looking at the instructions at https://docs.docker.com/compose/cli-command/#install-on-linux
It seems that the only way to install V2 is by downloading the script from a tag/release.

It seems that the only way to keep docker-compose up-to-date is by manually downloading from the latest tag/release,
while I'd like to have it automated.

Is it possible?
Thank you very much.

[ndeloof]

Sure, we are working on getting compose available as a system package with other docker bits, see docker/docker-ce-packaging#553

[nunoperalta]

Perfect! Thank you for that :)

[nemchik]

It seems like the compose plugin packages have not been updated in the docker-ce repo https://download.docker.com/ since v2.3.3. Does it only get updated when cli updates?

[ndeloof]

We are working on separating the system package release cycle from docker/cli so that we can get latest release available

[johnthagen]

Related to

• Compose 2.5.1 not published as .deb or .rpm #9497
• latest release not available in the official repo #9657

[nunoperalta]

This is resolved, at least to me on AlmaLinux 8.

$ dnf config-manager --add-repo https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/docker-ce.repo
$ dnf install docker-compose-plugin

[nemchik]

Packages are available in the official package repo, and users can use their package manager to get updates, but the releases from here don't get put in the official package repo until a new release of the docker cli (I think that's when it happens). So the official package repo will trail behind official releases from this repo. @ndeloof said this will change in the future.

Not sure if it's valid to keep this issue open until then, or consider it resolved or track a separate issue about keeping the package repo updated.

[ndeloof]

Closing as a duplicate for #9657