How to run docker-compose on remote host?

Question

I have compose file locally. How to run bundle of containers on remote host like docker-compose up -d with DOCKER_HOST=?

Answer 1

You can now use docker contexts for this:

docker context create dev ‐‐docker “host=ssh://user@remotemachine”

docker-compose ‐‐context dev up -d

More info here: https://www.docker.com/blog/how-to-deploy-on-remote-docker-hosts-with-docker-compose/