Docker – Install & Access Docker Compose from Putty Client

If you are one of them who access the docker machine using putty client, and you want to work with docker-compose, here is what you need to do:

• Open a putty client accessing the docker machine.
• Log in as root using command “sudo -i”
• Execute the following commands to download and install the docker-compose
  • curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.6.2/docker-compose-`uname -s`-`uname -m` > /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
  • chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
• Once done, execute the command “docker-compose –version” to check whether version number is printed.

You could read about Docker-compose on this page.

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