drone (Docker-Compose in docker?)

Question

I’d like to do

docker-compose up -d

Seems like plugins/docker is able to do what I want, but it fails if I don’t specify the publish-related stuff. I want to use it without publishing.

Another alternative could be services, but I try always failed

the code from docs.drone.io/docker_dind

kind: pipeline
name: default

steps:
- name: test
  image: docker:dind
  volumes:
  - name: dockersock
    path: /var/run
  commands:
  - sleep 5 # give docker enough time to start
  - docker ps -a
  - docker-compose -v # new

services:
- name: docker
  image: docker:dind
  privileged: true
  volumes:
  - name: dockersock
    path: /var/run

volumes:
- name: dockersock
  temp: {}

Error:

/usr/drone/bin/init: line 23: docker-compose: not found

Answer 1

The docker:dind container does not seem to have "docker-compose" installed. You can try using the docker/compose:1.23.2 container. You need to mount the docker socket file if you intend on using your host docker resources (ie. images, networks). Otherwise, you need to mount your directory with the docker-compose file to the /code directory.

docker/compose image reference: https://hub.docker.com/r/docker/compose/

See code below for reference:

kind: pipeline
name: default

steps:
- name: test
  image: compose:1.23.2
  volumes:
  - name: docker_sock
    path: /var/run/docker.sock
  commands:
  - up -f /drone/src/docker-compose.yaml
volumes:
  - name: docker_sock
    host:
      path: /var/run/docker.sock