Install docker and docker-compose using ansible https://www.srijn.net/install-docker-and-docker-compose-using-ansible/

docker_setup.yml

---
- name: Install packages using apt
  apt:
    name: 
        - apt-transport-https
        - ca-certificates
        - curl
        - gnupg2
        - software-properties-common
    state: present
    update_cache: no

- name: Add Docker GPG apt Key
  apt_key:
    url: "{{ docker_apt_gpg_key }}"
    state: present

- name: Add Docker Repository
  apt_repository:
    repo: "{{ docker_apt_repository }}"
    state: present
    update_cache: true

- name: Update apt and install docker-ce
  apt: update_cache=no name=docker-ce state=present

- name: Check current docker-compose version.
  command: docker-compose --version
  register: docker_compose_vsn
  changed_when: false
  failed_when: false
  check_mode: no

- set_fact:
    docker_compose_current_version: "{{ docker_compose_vsn.stdout | regex_search('(\\d+(\\.\\d+)+)') }}"
  when:
    - docker_compose_vsn.stdout is defined

- name: Install or upgrade docker-compose
  get_url: 
    url : "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/{{ docker_compose_version }}/docker-compose-Linux-x86_64"
    dest: /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
    mode: 'a+x'
    force: yes
  when: >
    docker_compose_current_version is not defined
    or docker_compose_current_version is version(docker_compose_version, '<')

- name: Run and enable docker
  service:
    name: docker
    state: started
    enabled: true

vars.yml

---
docker_apt_release_channel: stable
docker_apt_arch: amd64
docker_apt_repository: "deb [arch={{ docker_apt_arch }}] https://download.docker.com/linux/{{ ansible_distribution | lower }} {{ ansible_distribution_release }} {{ docker_apt_release_channel }}"
docker_apt_gpg_key: https://download.docker.com/linux/{{ ansible_distribution | lower }}/gpg
docker_compose_version: "1.24.0"

Hey many thank you for this. I have two little changes. Name for set_fact and docker_compose_current_version == "".

- name: set docker compose current version
  set_fact:
    docker_compose_current_version: "{{ docker_compose_vsn.stdout | regex_search('(\\d+(\\.\\d+)+)') }}"
  when:
    - docker_compose_vsn.stdout is defined

- name: Install or upgrade docker-compose
  get_url:
    url : "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/{{ docker_compose_version }}/docker-compose-Linux-x86_64"
    dest: /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
    mode: 'a+x'
    force: yes
  when:
    - docker_compose_current_version == "" or docker_compose_current_version is version(docker_compose_version, '<')

docker_compose_current_version == ""

This helped me out a ton (especially for new server provisions that do not have docker-compose installed yet). Thanks @schaerli!

Thank you @srijan for your article, I faced an issue during the Install or upgrade docker-compose step
I got this error Destination /usr/local/bin/docker-compose is not writable after some researches about the issue I tried to add become: true to this step and it's worked for me.
so is it working with you without become?

@NurdinDev - I have set become: true in the main file where this task is imported. It's required for all the steps here, not just the compose step.

I got it @srijan, Thank you so much 👍

Nice script, I needed to change the get_url section and added the checksum.

- name: Install or upgrade docker-compose
  become: true
  get_url:
    url: "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/v{{ docker_compose_version }}/docker-compose-linux-x86_64"
    checksum: "sha256:https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/v{{ docker_compose_version }}/docker-compose-linux-x86_64.sha256"
    dest: /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
    mode: 'a+x'
    force: yes
  when: >
    docker_compose_current_version is not defined
    or docker_compose_current_version is version(docker_compose_version, '<')