How to upgrade docker-compose to latest version

Question

I have installed docker-compose using the command

sudo apt install docker-compose

It installed docker-compose version 1.8.0 and build unknown

Answer 1

Here is another oneliner to install the latest version of docker-compose using curl and sed.

curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/`curl -fsSLI -o /dev/null -w %{url_effective} https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/latest | sed 's#.*tag/##g' && echo`/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose && chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose