Install the Compose plugin in cli-plugins

molecule/default/verify.yml

@@ -133,24 +133,14 @@
         - name: Verify Docker compose plugin is installed
           become: true
           become_user: "{{ docker_user }}"
+          environment:
+            PATH: "{{ docker_user_info.home }}/bin:{{ docker_user_info.home }}/.local/bin:{{ ansible_env.PATH }}"
           ansible.builtin.command:
             cmd: docker compose version
           register: docker_compose_plugin
           changed_when: false
           failed_when: docker_compose_plugin.rc != 0
-          when: docker_rootful and docker_compose
-
-        - name: Verify that docker-compose is installed
-          become: true
-          become_user: "{{ docker_user }}"
-          environment:
-            PATH: "{{ docker_user_info.home }}/bin:{{ docker_user_info.home }}/.local/bin"
-          ansible.builtin.command:
-            cmd: docker-compose version
-          register: docker_compose_version
-          changed_when: false
-          failed_when: docker_compose_version.rc != 0
-          when: not docker_rootful and docker_compose
+          when: docker_compose
 
     - name: Container verification block
       environment:

tasks/docker_compose.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+---
+- name: Install Docker compose
+  become: true
+  ansible.builtin.package:
+    name: docker-compose-plugin
+    state: present
+  when: docker_rootful
+  tags:
+    - apt
+    - dnf
+    - docker-compose
+
+- name: Install rootless Docker compose
+  when: not docker_rootful
+  become: true
+  become_user: "{{ docker_user }}"
+  tags:
+    - docker-compose
+  block:
+    - name: Stat Compose in /bin dir
+      ansible.builtin.stat:
+        path: "{{ docker_user_info.home }}/bin/docker-compose"
+      register: docker_compose_bin
+
+    - name: Create cli-plugins directory
+      ansible.builtin.file:
+        path: "{{ docker_user_info.home }}/.docker/cli-plugins"
+        state: directory
+        mode: "0700"
+
+    - name: Download docker-compose
+      ansible.builtin.get_url:
+        url: "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/v{{ docker_compose_release }}/docker-compose-linux-x86_64"
+        dest: "{{ docker_user_info.home }}/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose"
+        checksum: sha256:{{ docker_compose_release_shasum }}
+        owner: "{{ docker_user }}"
+        mode: "0755"
+      when: docker_compose
+
+    - name: Remove Compose in /bin dir
+      ansible.builtin.file:
+        path: "{{ docker_user_info.home }}/bin/docker-compose"
+        state: absent
+      when: docker_compose_bin.stat.exists and not docker_compose_bin.stat.islnk
+
+    - name: Create Compose link
+      ansible.builtin.file:
+        src: "{{ docker_user_info.home }}/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose"
+        dest: "{{ docker_user_info.home }}/bin/docker-compose"
+        state: link

tasks/docker_install_rootful.yml

@@ -62,14 +62,3 @@
     - apt
     - dnf
     - docker
-
-- name: Install Docker compose
-  become: true
-  ansible.builtin.package:
-    name: docker-compose-plugin
-    state: present
-  when: docker_compose
-  tags:
-    - apt
-    - dnf
-    - docker-compose

tasks/docker_install_rootless.yml

@@ -76,19 +76,6 @@
           - --strip-components=1
         remote_src: true
 
-- name: Download docker-compose
-  become: true
-  become_user: "{{ docker_user }}"
-  ansible.builtin.get_url:
-    url: "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/v{{ docker_compose_release }}/docker-compose-linux-x86_64"
-    dest: "{{ docker_user_info.home }}/bin/docker-compose"
-    checksum: sha256:{{ docker_compose_release_shasum }}
-    owner: "{{ docker_user }}"
-    mode: "0755"
-  when: docker_compose
-  tags:
-    - docker-compose
-
 - name: Add Docker systemd service
   become: true
   become_user: "{{ docker_user }}"

tasks/docker_service_rootful.yml

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
   tags:
     - modprobe
 
-- name: Install rootless docker
+- name: Install rootless Docker
   become: true
   become_user: "{{ docker_user }}"
   environment:

tasks/main.yml

@@ -28,10 +28,14 @@
     msg: slirp4netns (>= 0.4.0) is required, currently not available in Debian <= 10
   when: docker_rootful and (ansible_distribution == "Debian" and ansible_distribution_major_version <= '10')
 
-- name: Install and configure rootless docker
+- name: Install and configure rootless Docker
   ansible.builtin.include_tasks: docker_install_rootless.yml
   when: not docker_rootful
 
+- name: Install Docker Compose
+  ansible.builtin.include_tasks: docker_compose.yml
+  when: docker_compose
+
 - name: Add user sudo alias
   vars:
     sudo_alias: >