Installing Docker Compose 1.28.2 on NVIDIA Jetson Nano is not straightforward

To install Docker Compose on a Linux system is just a one-liner command but that's not true for IoT devices like Raspberry Pi and Jetson Nano.

While installing the latest Docker Compose 1.28.2, I went through a painful dependency hell. Finally, after dozens of tweaks and tricks, I managed to install the latest version of Compose.

Here's how I managed to get it installed:

Hardware

• Jetson Nano
• A 5V 4Ampere Charger
• 64GB SD card

Software

• Jetson SD card image from https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/downloads
• Etcher software installed on your system

Preparing Your Raspberry Pi Flashing Jetson SD Card Image

• Unzip the SD card image
• Insert SD card into your system.
• Bring up Etcher tool and select the target SD card to which you want to flash the image.

Verifying if it is shipped with Docker Binaries

sudo docker version
Client: Docker Engine - Community
 Version:           20.10.3
 API version:       1.41
 Go version:        go1.13.15
 Git commit:        48d30b5
 Built:             Fri Jan 29 14:33:34 2021
 OS/Arch:           linux/arm64
 Context:           default
 Experimental:      true

Server: Docker Engine - Community
 Engine:
  Version:          20.10.3
  API version:      1.41 (minimum version 1.12)
  Go version:       go1.13.15
  Git commit:       46229ca
  Built:            Fri Jan 29 14:31:49 2021
  OS/Arch:          linux/arm64
  Experimental:     false
 containerd:
  Version:          1.4.3
  GitCommit:        269548fa27e0089a8b8278fc4fc781d7f65a939b
 nvidia:
  Version:          1.0.0-rc92
  GitCommit:        ff819c7e9184c13b7c2607fe6c30ae19403a7aff
 docker-init:
  Version:          0.19.0
  GitCommit:        de40ad0
pico@pico1:~$ 

Put the below content into a file and execute it

#!/bin/bash
sudo apt-get update -y
sudo apt-get upgrade -y
sudo apt-get install curl python3-pip libffi-dev python-openssl libssl-dev zlib1g-dev gcc g++ make -y
sudo apt install rustc
sudo pip3 install docker-compose

sudo docker-compose version
docker-compose version 1.28.2, build unknown
docker-py version: 4.4.2
CPython version: 3.6.9
OpenSSL version: OpenSSL 1.1.1  11 Sep 2018

How was your experience in setting up Compose on Jetson Nano board? Do leave your comments and feedback.

References:

• https://github.com/collabnix/ioetplanet

Comments

[Richard Whitehead]

Thanks for posting, but you need to be extremely careful about including the apt upgrade -y line which is extremely dangerous, it tries to update the whole operating systems and can break many installed systems. My own fault for not noticing it but I now need to reinstall the OS.