Error saying client and server don t have same version client 1 19 server 1 18

Question

Every time I run the command

$ docker compose up

It gives the following error

client and server don't have same version (client : 1.19, server: 1.18)

Which client and server is this error referring to and how do I get it fixed?

Answer 1

As of docker-compose 1.4 you can now set the client API version, so you don't have to downgrade the client, or upgrade the server.

Set the environment variable COMPOSE_API_VERSION=auto to have it auto-detect the client version, or COMPOSE_API_VERSION=1.18 to set the exact version