Introduction:

Docker Compose is a tool for defining and running multi-container Docker applications

ref: https://docs.docker.com/compose/

Prerequisties: you must have the docker installed system. Refer docker section in this book.

I am using in ubuntu 16.04.

Installation

sudo apt-get install -y docker.io
sudo curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.16.1/docker-compose-`uname -s`-`uname -m` -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

Logs:

# docker-compose version
docker-compose version 1.16.1, build 6d1ac21
docker-py version: 2.5.1
CPython version: 2.7.13
OpenSSL version: OpenSSL 1.0.1t  3 May 2016

# docker --version
Docker version 1.12.6, build 78d1802