docker-compose in docker

[tinytelly]

I have docker-compose installed on the server like this:

$ docker-compose --version
docker-compose version 1.8.1, build 878cff1
$ which docker-compose
/usr/local/bin/docker-compose

I start my docker container like this:

docker run --rm -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock myservice:latest

and myservice:lastest is built from

FROM docker:latest

inside the container I call a bash script that does docker things..and all works fine.
I also want to call docker-compose and have it use the docker-compose on the host in the same as docker does.

Not sure how to do this.....any ideas?

Thanks
Matt

[tinytelly]

figured it out....here's the answer to help anyone that is trying to do the same thing.

Inside the bash script running in the container you run docker-compose as a container rather than try to use the docker-compose on the host.

Like this:
docker run --rm -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v /home:/home -w /home docker/compose:1.11.2 -f docker-compose-you-want-to-run.yml up -d --no-recreate

make sure you copy docker-compose-you-want-to-run.yml into /home first.

[tianon]

Cool, glad you got a good solution worked out! 👍