docker-compose up leads to 'client and server don't have same version (client : 1.14, server: 1.12)'' error but client and server have the same version

Posted on May 21, 2022

Question

docker version prints:

Client version: 1.0.1
Client API version: 1.12
Go version (client): go1.2.1
Git commit (client): 990021a
Server version: 1.0.1
Server API version: 1.12
Go version (server): go1.2.1
Git commit (server): 990021a

docker-compose --version prints:

docker-compose 1.2.0

I installed docker with apt-get install docker.io and docker-compose with

curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.2.0/docker-compose-`uname -s`-`uname -m` > /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

I use Ubuntu 14.04 x64.

Answer

Checkout the environment variable COMPOSE_API_VERSION.

I was getting ERROR: client and server don't have same version (client : 1.19, server: 1.18), then I did export COMPOSE_API_VERSION=1.18 and problem sovled!