Install Latest Docker and Docker-compose on Ubuntu

install.sh

# Ask for the user password
# Script only works if sudo caches the password for a few minutes
sudo true

# Install kernel extra's to enable docker aufs support
# sudo apt-get -y install linux-image-extra-$(uname -r)

# Add Docker PPA and install latest version
# sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 36A1D7869245C8950F966E92D8576A8BA88D21E9
# sudo sh -c "echo deb https://get.docker.io/ubuntu docker main > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list"
# sudo apt-get update
# sudo apt-get install lxc-docker -y

# Alternatively you can use the official docker install script
wget -qO- https://get.docker.com/ | sh

# Install docker-compose
COMPOSE_VERSION=`git ls-remote https://github.com/docker/compose | grep refs/tags | grep -oE "[0-9]+\.[0-9][0-9]+\.[0-9]+$" | sort --version-sort | tail -n 1`
sudo sh -c "curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/${COMPOSE_VERSION}/docker-compose-`uname -s`-`uname -m` > /usr/local/bin/docker-compose"
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
sudo sh -c "curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/docker/compose/${COMPOSE_VERSION}/contrib/completion/bash/docker-compose > /etc/bash_completion.d/docker-compose"

# Install docker-cleanup command
cd /tmp
git clone https://gist.github.com/76b450a0c986e576e98b.git
cd 76b450a0c986e576e98b
sudo mv docker-cleanup /usr/local/bin/docker-cleanup
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-cleanup

Hi, who wrote the docker-cleanup script?

thanks for the script..

@madtechsupport This script pulls it in from another gist of mine.
I initially got it from here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/23540202

Thx man, it solves all my problems!

Marvelous +1

Quick install:

wget -O - https://gist.githubusercontent.com/wdullaer/f1af16bd7e970389bad3/raw/install.sh | bash or
wget -O - https://bit.ly/docker-install | bash (if you trust wdullaer and me :P)

had errors with installing compose, but this helped me, thanks :)

thx mate, neat stuff!

I have a suggestion from a mate, who thinks adding Volume cleanup to the script could improve the script further, see https://twitter.com/theNeomatrix369/status/712983092865155072 - thanks mate for the script, now the rest of the Docker world knows about it as well ;)

I've forked it, my version automatically takes the latest docker-compose version from the repository, so it's not fixed to 1.6.2
https://gist.github.com/luislobo/2dc3de67b7f2ddc623c239dff36962a0

@luislobo: had to modify the grep to: grep -oP "[\w-\.]+$" so it detects the rc versions also. Right now the latest version is 1.8.0-rc1 and the script detects it as 1.8.0 which doesn't exist. It works great btw.

Thanks for script.

Nice script! Made my day!

Thanks for script. It saved hours of my time.

@luislobo that's a neat trick, I'll put that in here as well

I wonder why there is no easier way than searching a custom script from GitHub to install the latest version of Docker Compose...

FYI I've found docker-gc a more robust substitute for docker-cleanup.

curl -sSL https://get.docker.com/ | sudo bash

@Jarzka because its bleeding edge

Thank you buddy for this script.

Regular expression for latest docker-compose releases (X.XX.X) should be fixed like:
"[0-9]+\.[0-9][0-9]+\.[0-9]+$"

@xtdwps thanks, updated

That regex requires two digits in the centre position. Here's a more flexible solution, but it's a mess. Anything better?

LIST=$( git ls-remote https://github.com/docker/compose | grep "refs/tags" | grep -oP "[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)+$" )
VERSION=""
while [ $( echo "${LIST}" | wc -l ) -gt 1 ]
do
    DIGIT=$( echo "${LIST}" | grep -oP "^[0-9]+" | sort -g | tail -n 1 )
    VERSION="${VERSION}"."${DIGIT}"
    LIST=$( echo "${LIST}" | sed -e "/^${DIGIT}/!d" -e "s/^${DIGIT}.//" )
done
VERSION=$( echo "${VERSION}" | sed "s/^\.//" )

Thanks a lot!

¡¡Thank you very, very much!!

Thanks for this great script 👍

Hi, I write a more simple script.

VERSION=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -I -w "%{redirect_url}\n" https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/latest | grep -oP "[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)+$")
curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/$COMPOSE_VER/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m) > /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
docker-compose --version

Thanks @n0ts!

There is an small typo:
COMPOSE_VER=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -I -w "%{redirect_url}\n" https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/latest | grep -oP "[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)+$")

and second command could be:

curl -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/$COMPOSE_VER/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)

I hope it's useful!

Thank you very much!

As the current installation process of docker compose is pretty creepy you may be interested in these issues: 2235 and 24210.
But at least there's a Docker / Moby PPA for Docker / Moby itself…

@madtechsupport here;

#!/bin/bash

# Uninstall Script

if [ "${USER}" != "root" ]; then
    echo "$0 must be run as root!"
    exit 2
fi

while true; do
  read -p "Remove all Docker Machine VMs? (Y/N): " yn
  case $yn in
    [Yy]* ) docker-machine rm -f $(docker-machine ls -q); break;;
    [Nn]* ) break;;
    * ) echo "Please answer yes or no."; exit 1;;
  esac
done

echo "Removing Applications..."
rm -rf /Applications/Docker

echo "Removing docker binaries..."
rm -f /usr/local/bin/docker
rm -f /usr/local/bin/docker-machine
rm -r /usr/local/bin/docker-machine-driver*
rm -f /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

echo "Removing boot2docker.iso"
rm -rf /usr/local/share/boot2docker

echo "All Done!"

This is not a recommended way to install if it you can avoid it. If you want to install it on debian you should package it into a deb. You can look at the source deb for it and try to up date that. The project might also contain a build script for deb somewhere.

Awesome Thanks.

Thanks for this script 👍

To overwrite exisiting docker-compose version one may use
COMPOSE_VER=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -I -w "%{redirect_url}\n" https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/latest | grep -oP "[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)+$")
&&
curl -o $(which docker-compose) -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/$COMPOSE_VER/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)
Just if there allready is a docker-compose binary
But this is not fully tested.

Hi there, thank you for taking the pain away from installing the latest docker version.

One little improvement though:
The script is dependent on git being installed.
Maybe add something like:
hash git 2>/dev/null || { echo >&2 "I require git but it's not installed. Aborting..."; exit 1;}

Oh my dayum! This script is delicious :)
Thank you sir.

A little warn here : please consider using -E (extended regex) instead of -P (Perl regex) in your grep expression. => Some grep may not support -P : busybox for example does not support this flag.

Nice script, tkx.

However, sometimes the versions of docker-compose are not ordered and so the version downloaded is not the last one.

This fixes it:

COMPOSE_VERSION=`git ls-remote https://github.com/docker/compose | grep refs/tags | grep -oP "[0-9]+\.[0-9][0-9]+\.[0-9]+$" | sort --version-sort | tail -n 1`

I haven't updated this in a long time. I'm happy to see it still works.

Thanks for the feedback, I'll add your fix in.