How to run docker-compose on remote host?

Question

I have compose file locally. How to run bundle of containers on remote host like docker-compose up -d with DOCKER_HOST=?

Answer 1

From the compose documentation

Compose CLI environment variables

DOCKER_HOST

Sets the URL of the docker daemon. As with the Docker client, defaults to unix:///var/run/docker.sock.

so that we can do

export DOCKER_HOST=tcp://192.168.1.2:2375
docker-compose up