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title = "Installing docker-compose"
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For these examples, we will use the tool [docker-compose](https://docs.docker.com/compose/reference/overview/) to simulate a full-stack development environment that consists of multiple containers communicating with each other.

Download the docker-compose binary by running the following command:

```bash
sudo curl -kLo ~/bin/docker-compose https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.22.0/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)
sudo chmod +x ~/bin/docker-compose
```

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