followed the link to install the docker-compose link

Basically, thee are only two steps as below:

Copysudo curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/latest/download/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m) -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

docker-compose version

Rather than dynamically looking up the OS type, just specify the linux version...

sudo curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.26.2/docker-compose-Linux-x86_64" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

Following the instruction in the "Install plugin manually" section worked for me. Before I was installing to the ec2-user user and testing via sudo docker compose version - I had to follow the instructions for installing to all users.

Here is a bash script to install latest docker compose plugin for all users on amazon linux 2:

sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/docker/cli-plugins/
sudo curl -SL https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/latest/download/docker-compose-linux-x86_64 -o /usr/local/lib/docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/lib/docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose

On Amazon Linux 2023 the global cli-plugins directory for Docker is /usr/libexec/docker/cli-plugins/. So...

# download the latest version in the global plugins directory
sudo curl -SL https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/latest/download/docker-compose-linux-$(uname -m) -o /usr/libexec/docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose

# make it executable
sudo chmod +x /usr/libexec/docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose

# check
docker compose version

Hope you are having a great day. I faced the same issue.

The issue is that you are using community.docker.docker_compose_v2 with docker compose version 1. I would like to say that I don't recommend you go back to community.docker.docker_compose as it is deprecated.

I am facing the same issue with Amazon Linux and I got could get around by two ways. not ideal but it is temporary:

1st work around:

Copy    - name: Start containers from compose 
  ansible.builtin.command:
    cmd: docker-compose up -d

2nd work around:

Copy      become: yes
  vars_files:
    - project-vars
  tasks:
    - name: Copy Docker compose
      copy: 
        src: /root/ansible/Ansible/docker-compose.yaml
        dest: /home/ec2-user  
    - name: Docker login
      docker_login:
        registry_url: https://index.docker.io/v1
        username: ibrahimosama
        password: "{{docker_password}}"
    - name: Start containers from compose 
      community.docker.docker_compose_v2:
        project_src: /home/ec2-user

The ultimate fix is to install docker compose version 2 instead:

Copy    - name: Install docker compose V2 
  hosts: ec2
  become: yes
  tasks:
    - name: Create directory for Docker CLI plugins
      file:
        path: /usr/local/lib/docker/cli-plugins
        state: directory
        mode: '0755'
    - name: Download Docker Compose V2 binary
      get_url:
        url: https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/v2.18.0/docker-compose-linux-x86_64
        dest: /usr/local/lib/docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose
        mode: '0755'
    - name: Make Docker Compose binary executable
      file:
        path: /usr/local/lib/docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose
        mode: '0755'
    - name: Verify Docker Compose installation
      command: docker compose version
      register: docker_compose_version
      ignore_errors: yes
    - name: Show Docker Compose version
      debug:
        msg: "{{ docker_compose_version.stdout }}"
      when: docker_compose_version.rc == 0

My full project is on https://github.com/ibrahim-osama-amin/Ansible/blob/main/deploy-docker.yaml