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Ado Ren
Ado Ren

Reputation: 4414

How to alias docker-compose to docker compose?

From my understanding, docker compose is the latest version. This is the one at least I installed from docker official documentation.

I am working on a project that use docker-compose in their makefile.

How could I forward all the calls (and their arguments) from docker-compose to docker compose ?

I created an alias: alias docker-compose="docker compose"

It works fine in terminal. But not in the make file.

Upvotes: 58

Views: 49474

Answers (4)

Mech45
Mech45

Reputation: 339

If you wish to avoid any additional scripts, I recommend you to :

  • create your alias (in your ~/.profile | ~/.bash|zshrc file)

    alias docker-compose="docker compose --compatibility $@"

  • source your ~/.profile|.zsh|bashrc file in your makefile.

Upvotes: 1

Altair Jorge Fernandes
Altair Jorge Fernandes

Reputation: 136

Created this gist based on the answer to make it easier:

sudo touch /usr/bin/docker-compose
echo 'docker compose --compatibility "$@"' | sudo tee /usr/bin/docker-compose
sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/docker-compose

https://gist.github.com/tatosjb/c477a5c09c4ad8fa67265032831ac94f

Upvotes: 12

Carlton Northern
Carlton Northern

Reputation: 401

You can symlink to the docker compose plugin binary. Mine is located at /usr/libexec/docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose. So just:

ln -f -s /usr/libexec/docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

Upvotes: 13

Ado Ren
Ado Ren

Reputation: 4414

One solution I've come up with is to create a little script.

File: /bin/docker-compose

Content:

docker compose "$@"

Alternatively, in order to respect previous container naming convention (with underscore delimiter _ over -):

docker compose --compatibility "$@"

To make the script executable: sudo chmod +x /bin/docker-compose.

You can check it with docker-compose version.

Upvotes: 138

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