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description: Key features and use cases of Docker Compose
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keywords: documentation, docs, docker, compose, orchestration, containers, uses, features
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title: Compose V2 Overview
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## Compose V2 and the new `docker compose` command
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> Important
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> The new Compose V2, which supports the `compose` command as part of the Docker
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> CLI, is now available.
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> Compose V2 integrates compose functions into the Docker platform, continuing
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> to support most of the previous `docker-compose` features and flags. You can
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> run Compose V2 by replacing the hyphen (`-`) with a space, using `docker compose`,
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> instead of `docker-compose`.
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{: .important}
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If you rely on using Docker Compose as `docker-compose` (with a hyphen), you can
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set up Compose V2 to act as a drop-in replacement of the previous `docker-compose`.
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Refer to the [Installing Compose](../install/index.md) section for detailed instructions.
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## Context of Docker Compose evolution
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Introduction of the [Compose specification](https://github.com/compose-spec/compose-spec){:target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="_"}
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makes a clean distinction between the Compose YAML file model and the `docker-compose`
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implementation. Making this change has enabled a number of enhancements, including
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adding the `compose` command directly into the Docker CLI, being able to "up" a
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Compose application on cloud platforms by simply switching the Docker context,
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and launching of [Amazon ECS](../../cloud/ecs-integration.md) and [Microsoft ACI](../../cloud/aci-integration.md).
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As the Compose specification evolves, new features land faster in the Docker CLI.
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Compose V2 relies directly on the compose-go bindings which are maintained as part
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of the specification. This allows us to include community proposals, experimental
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implementations by the Docker CLI and/or Engine, and deliver features faster to
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users. Compose V2 also supports some of the newer additions to the specification,
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such as [profiles](../profiles.md) and [GPU](../gpu-support.md) devices.
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Compose V2 has been re-written in [Go](https://go.dev), which improves integration
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with other Docker command-line features, and allows it to run natively on
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[macOS on Apple silicon](../../desktop/mac/apple-silicon.md), Windows, and Linux,
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without dependencies such as Python.
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For more information about compatibility with the compose v1 command-line, see the [docker-compose compatibility list](../cli-command-compatibility.md). |