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• Home Server with N100: The Trade-offs of Low Power
  1 project | dev.to | 22 Jun 2026

  # Docker installation (general commands for Debian/Ubuntu) sudo apt update sudo apt install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl software-properties-common -y curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null sudo apt update sudo apt install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io -y # Docker Compose installation (check for the latest version) LATEST_COMPOSE=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/docker/compose/releases/latest | grep 'tag_name' | cut -d\" -f4) sudo curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/${LATEST_COMPOSE}/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose docker-compose --version

• Docker Compose Merged the Patch: The Boundary Fired Too Early
  1 project | dev.to | 12 Jun 2026

  PR: https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/13831 Issue: https://github.com/docker/compose/issues/13613 Status: merged

• Red Hat takes on Docker Desktop with its enterprise Podman Desktop build
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Feb 2026

  What sort of compatibility issues were you encountering? (disclaimer: I'm on the Podman Desktop team)

  If it was compose + docker compatibility issues, that's on the roadmap for improvement :). Compose support is flakey at times (it's essentially a wrapper around the open source binary https://github.com/docker/compose)

• Self-Hosting Mem0: A Complete Docker Deployment Guide
  2 projects | dev.to | 23 Feb 2026

  # Amazon Linux 2023 sudo yum install -y docker sudo systemctl enable --now docker sudo usermod -aG docker $USER newgrp docker # activates the group without requiring a full logout # Install Compose plugin sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/docker/cli-plugins sudo curl -SL https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/latest/download/docker-compose-linux-x86_64 \ -o /usr/local/lib/docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose sudo chmod +x /usr/local/lib/docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose

• Installing Docker Compose
  1 project | dev.to | 21 Jan 2026

  $ DOCKER_CONFIG=${DOCKER_CONFIG:-$HOME/.docker} $ mkdir -p $DOCKER_CONFIG/cli-plugins $ curl -SL https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/v2.26.1/docker-compose-linux-x86_64 -o $DOCKER_CONFIG/cli-plugins/docker-compose

• Automating Dockerized App Deployment with a Bash Script
  3 projects | dev.to | 12 Dec 2025

  ssh -i "$SSH_KEY_PATH" -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no "$SSH_USER@$SERVER_IP" bash </dev/null; then echo "Docker not found. Installing Docker..." curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com | sudo bash else echo "Docker already installed." fi # --- Install Docker Compose if not installed --- if ! command -v docker-compose &>/dev/null; then echo "Installing Docker Compose..." sudo curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/latest/download/docker-compose-\$(uname -s)-\$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose else echo "Docker Compose already installed." fi # --- Install nginx if not installed --- if ! command -v nginx &>/dev/null; then echo "Installing nginx..." sudo apt-get install -y nginx else echo "nginx already installed." fi # --- Add SSH user to docker group --- if ! groups $SSH_USER | grep -q docker; then echo "Adding user '$SSH_USER' to docker group..." sudo usermod -aG docker $SSH_USER echo "You may need to log out and back in for this to take effect." else echo "User '$SSH_USER' already in docker group." fi # --- Enable and start services --- sudo systemctl enable docker sudo systemctl start docker sudo systemctl enable nginx sudo systemctl start nginx # --- Confirm installation versions --- echo "Confirming versions..." docker --version docker-compose --version nginx -v echo "Remote environment setup complete." EOF

• Deploy a Golang Dockerized App to EC2 with AWS ECR
  2 projects | dev.to | 10 Dec 2025

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

• Let's Deploy n8n on ec2 instances 🚀🚀🚀
  1 project | dev.to | 10 Dec 2025

  #!/bin/bash yum install -y git docker # Install Docker Compose plugin (system-wide) mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/docker/cli-plugins curl -SL "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/latest/download/docker-compose-linux-$(uname -m)" \ -o /usr/local/lib/docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose chmod +x /usr/local/lib/docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose # Enable and start Docker systemctl enable docker systemctl start docker # Allow ec2-user to run docker without sudo usermod -aG docker ec2-user

• Containerized Microservices with Full Automation
  1 project | dev.to | 9 Dec 2025

  --- # Install required system dependencies - name: Update apt cache apt: update_cache: yes cache_valid_time: 3600 become: yes - name: Install required packages apt: name: - apt-transport-https - ca-certificates - curl - gnupg - lsb-release - python3-pip - git - ufw state: present become: yes - name: Add Docker GPG key apt_key: url: https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg state: present become: yes - name: Add Docker repository apt_repository: repo: "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu {{ ansible_distribution_release }} stable" state: present become: yes - name: Install Docker apt: name: - docker-ce - docker-ce-cli - containerd.io - docker-buildx-plugin - docker-compose-plugin state: present become: yes notify: Restart Docker - name: Add user to docker group user: name: "{{ ansible_user }}" groups: docker append: yes become: yes - name: Install Docker Compose (standalone) get_url: url: "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/v2.23.0/docker-compose-linux-x86_64" dest: /usr/local/bin/docker-compose mode: '0755' become: yes - name: Configure UFW firewall ufw: rule: "{{ item.rule }}" port: "{{ item.port }}" proto: "{{ item.proto }}" loop: - { rule: 'allow', port: '22', proto: 'tcp' } - { rule: 'allow', port: '80', proto: 'tcp' } - { rule: 'allow', port: '443', proto: 'tcp' } become: yes - name: Enable UFW ufw: state: enabled become: yes

• Building a Production-Ready CI/CD Pipeline: Automating Infrastructure with Terraform, GitHub Actions, and Ansible
  2 projects | dev.to | 9 Dec 2025

  get_url: url: https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/v2.20.0/docker-compose-linux-x86_64 dest: /usr/local/bin/docker-compose mode: "0755" when: false # Disable this if using docker-compose-plugin

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