Docker image tmaier/docker-compose is deprecated from now on
The official docker image finally ships with Docker Compose by default!
I am using Docker and Docker Compose since many years in my CI/CD pipelines. Docker Compose within my GitLab CI pipeline allowed me to spin up the full fledged test environment, exactly the same way as I do it for my local development environment (today, this is usually based von VS Code Remove Container).
Unfortunately, the docker image never had docker-compose available.
This is why I created a dedicated docker image in 2017, called tmaier/docker-compose (see Docker Hub).
It has been also quite successful with 6.2 million pulls as of today.
I continued to maintain this image for many years. Fast forward to 2022, this is finally not necessary anymore.
Pull Request docker-library/docker#361 added Docker Compose, but also Buildx to the docker image.
This means, tmaier/docker-compose can be finally deprecated.
tmaier/docker-compose will continue to provide docker-compose v1, but deprecated means, that no further changes shall be expected.
Everyone should consider to upgrade to Docker Compose v2 and replace tmaier/docker-compose with docker.