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    Troubleshooting Nautobot As A Docker Container Docker Compose Not Found

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    Summary

    Just ran into an issue with deploying the Docker container for Nautobot on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Kept outputing the docker help everytime I would run invoke.

    Solution

    The solution was to edit the invoke task for invoke.py and set it to docker-compose and not docker compose.

    Needed to change the docker_compose function so the compose command was docker-compose and not docker compose. after the update Invoke would run the command with no issue.

    diff --git a/tasks.py b/tasks.py
index 3e3c043..9f49fdf 100644
--- a/tasks.py
+++ b/tasks.py
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ def docker_compose(context, command, **kwargs):
         "PYTHON_VER": context.nautobot_docker_compose.python_ver,
         "NAUTOBOT_VERSION": NAUTOBOT_VERSION,
     }
-    compose_command = f'docker compose --project-name {context.nautobot_docker_compose.project_name} --project-directory "{context.nautobot_docker_compose.compose_dir}"'
+    compose_command = f'docker-compose -p {context.nautobot_docker_compose.project_name} --project-directory "{context.nautobot_docker_compose.compose_dir}"'
     for compose_file in context.nautobot_docker_compose.compose_files:
         compose_file_path = os.path.join(
             context.nautobot_docker_compose.compose_dir, compose_file