Docker – How to Install Docker Compose on Windows

Following are the key points:

• Make sure you have Docker Engine version 1.7.1 or greater. Open a putty terminal accessing the “default” docker-machine or do “docker-machine ssh default”. You could put name of any other machine based on docker-machine in which you want to install docker-compose.
• Login as a Superuser using command “sudo -i”
• Install the docker-compose using following command:

  curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.6.0/docker-compose-`uname -s`-`uname -m` > /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
  

  Do note that one would need to have Docker version 1.9.1 or above to install docker-compose of version 1.6.0.

• Apply following permissions or else you would end up getting the error such as “-sh: docker-compose: Permission denied”

  chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
  

• Once done with above, exit from root shell and execute following command. It should print you the docker-compose version as 1.6.0.

  docker-compose --version