Can't deploy stack with compose file version 2.4 on docker 19.03.6

Docker Engine Swarm
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I am trying to deploy my docker stack using compose file. When I deploy with compose file version 3+, the deploy works perfectly fine. But when I am trying to use the 2.4 version or lower I get this error:
unsupported Compose file version: 2.4

I need to use the 2.4 version, because Version 3 and higher does not support several parameters I need for my containers (such as cpuset and runtime).

My version of docker is 19.03.6 and docker-compose is 1.25.4.

Is there any way to deploy with an older version of compose file on Docker 19.03.6? Am i missing something or is the latest docker version does not support the older compose files anymore?

Here are compose files examples:

Version 3.7 (working)

version: '3.7'

services:

  mongo:
    image: mongo
    volumes:
      - ~/ProcessingServerData/mongodb/db:/data/db
      - ~/ProcessingServerData/mongodb/configdb:/data/configdb
    networks:
      - proc-net
    
  mongo-express:
    image: mongo-express
    depends_on:
      - mongo
    ports:
      - 8081:8081
    networks:
      - proc-net
  
  visualizer:
    image: dockersamples/visualizer:stable
    ports:
      - 8082:8080
    volumes:
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
    networks:
      - proc-net
    deploy:
      placement:
        constraints: [node.role == manager]

networks:
  proc-net:
    driver: overlay
    attachable: true

Version 2.4 (not working)

version: '2.4'

services:

  mongo:
    image: mongo
    volumes:
      - type: bind
        source: ~/ProcessingServerData/mongodb/db
        target: /data/db
      - type: bind
        source: ~/ProcessingServerData/mongodb/configdb
        target: /data/configdb
    networks:
      - proc-net
    deploy:
      resources:
        cpuset: 0,1
    
  mongo-express:
    image: mongo-express
    depends_on:
      - mongo
    ports:
      - 8081:8081
    networks:
      - proc-net
    deploy:
      resources:
        cpuset: 0,1
  
  visualizer:
    image: dockersamples/visualizer:stable
    ports:
      - 8082:8080
    volumes:
      - type: bind
        source: /var/run/docker.sock
        target: /var/run/docker.sock
    networks:
      - proc-net
    deploy:
      resources:
        cpuset: 0,1
      placement:
        constraints: [node.role == manager]

networks:
  proc-net:
    driver: overlay
2

According release notes for docker-compose 1.25.4 it support compose file format 2.4 on docker engine version 17.12.0+.

Though, “deploy” is not compliant according the v2 file reference.
In order to deploy swarm stacks, you need to use v3+.

Be aware that not all features of plain docker (as in docker-compose and docker run) are supported by swarm service/stacks. Especialy low level features are missing…

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Yeah, it’s really sad that there is no support for runtime and cpuset. Thank you for the answer.

4

If you want full control of your deployments, there is no way arround kubernetes for time beeing.