Install Docker Compose

Docker Compose is a tool for defining and running multi-container Docker applications. With Compose, you use a YAML file to configure your application's services. Then, with a single command, you create and start all the services from your configuration.

When installing Docker Desktop, Compose is automatically added to WSL. Compose provides all the capability of Docker Compose and is intended to be the long term replacement, avoiding the need for the below installation as most docker-compose commands are included.

However, it is to be noted that Compose has some differences detailed in this document

It is also to be noted that Compose will not work with any volume mount ending with a trailing /.

For example, this will work:

- volumes:
  - ./app:/home/node/app

This will not:

- volumes:
  - ./app/:/home/node/app/

Installation

Only follow this if your current installation of Docker Desktop does not include Compose.

Follow the installation guide provided by Docker for your OS.