docker-compose up leads to “client and server don't have same version (client : 1.14, server: 1.12)” error but client and server have the same version

Question

docker version prints:

Client version: 1.0.1
Client API version: 1.12
Go version (client): go1.2.1
Git commit (client): 990021a
Server version:          


        

Answer 1

This is an issue of docker API version used by docker-compose being higher than that that of docker daemon listening to serve.

Easiest way to fix is this to use an older version of docker-compose.

Here is my example but with different version mismatch:

$ docker-compose up

client and server don't have same version (client : 1.18, server: 1.17)

To fix it, I had to install a lower version of docker-compose(1.2 version instead of latest 1.3 version) using following command

curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.2.0/docker-compose-`uname -s`-`uname -m` > /usr/local/bin/docker-compose``

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

You can find different version of docker-compose at https://github.com/docker/compose/releases

Based on your server version, you need to try different lower versioned docker-compose until one works.