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drice89
drice89

Reputation: 129

Docker desktop mac wont update docker compose

I updated docker desktop for Mac (intel) this morning to Docker Desktop 4.9.1. My docker compose version won't seem to update. When I run docker-compose --version in my terminal it returns docker-compose version 1.25.5, build unknown. I tried installing docker-compose with brew and after some tinkering I got confirmation that it installed version 2.6.0, however after restarting docker desktop and my computer, I still get 1.25.5 when I run docker-compose --version.

How can I force docker to use a newer version of docker-compose?

NOTE: In my docker-compose.yml file I have version 2 running.

Upvotes: 7

Views: 5612

Answers (3)

Mikhail_Sam
Mikhail_Sam

Reputation: 11218

While mangers answer is correct I can't find such "after-install instruction". The current process differs. The new way to enable a plugin is to add the following section to the .docker/config.json file:

{
    "cliPluginsExtraDirs": [
        "/opt/homebrew/lib/docker/cli-plugins"
    ]  
}

Note

  • I have no other options, so I have shown you the entire file.
  • It is possible that you do not have such a directory and file (for example, if you installed Docker using Homebrew). In that case, you can create them yourself

Example:

mkdir -p ~/.docker  
cd .docker  
echo "{}" >  $HOME/.docker/config.json

Additionally, I installed Docker Compose before this:

brew install docker-compose

Upvotes: 1

mangei
mangei

Reputation: 817

My docker compose also came via Docker Desktop on MacOS and it did not update/had the latest the latest version of docker-compose. I resolved this by installing docker-compose via brew:

https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/docker-compose

brew install docker-compose

Don't forget to follow the after-install instructions:

"Compose is now a Docker plugin. For Docker to find this plugin, symlink it:"

mkdir -p ~/.docker/cli-plugins
ln -sfn /opt/homebrew/opt/docker-compose/bin/docker-compose ~/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose

Upvotes: 9

drice89
drice89

Reputation: 129

The only way I was able to solve this was to completely manually uninstall docker desktop and all docker related items from brew. I deleted every docker file I could find from my lib and then reinstalled.

Upvotes: 1

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