# Install decompose with Homebrew

Reverse-engineering tool for docker environments. Version 1.11.8 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-28.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:decompose
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install decompose
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:decompose
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.11.8
- **Source summary:** Reverse-engineering tool for docker environments
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/s0rg/decompose>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/s0rg/decompose>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-28T14:10:37+02:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- decompose (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.11.8
## Project history and usage

decompose is a Go command-line tool for inspecting live Docker environments and turning observed container network connections into graph, tree, JSON, CSV, PlantUML, Structurizr DSL, and Compose-style output.

### Project history

The project README explains the origin in a practical operations problem: the author needed to visualize and inspect a large dockerized legacy system with more than 470 containers and little documentation. That origin shaped the tool as a reverse-engineering utility rather than a deployment orchestrator.

The official release stream shows decompose reaching v0.9.1 in August 2023 and v1.0.0 the next day, with later 1.x releases continuing through 2026.

### Adoption history

decompose is packaged for Homebrew and also distributed upstream as release binaries, deb and rpm packages, and a Docker image. That makes it usable both as a local terminal tool and as a throwaway container for infrastructure inspection.

### How it is used

Package users run decompose when they need an observed map of an existing Docker estate. The README emphasizes stdout-oriented Unix behavior, sorted output for version control, offline processing from saved JSON streams, metadata enrichment, and multiple graph/export formats.

### Why package nerds care

decompose is interesting to package people because it sits between Docker introspection, graph tooling, and documentation recovery. It is a small CLI that packages a messy operational task - discovering what containers actually talk to - into reproducible text outputs.

### Timeline

- 2023: v0.9.1 release appears on GitHub.
- 2023: v1.0.0 is published.
- 2026: v1.11.8 is published.

### Related projects

- The README compares decompose with docker-autocompose, dockviz, docker-network-graph, and Weave Scope, while also exporting to ecosystems such as Graphviz, PlantUML, Structurizr DSL, and Docker Compose.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/s0rg/decompose>
- <https://github.com/s0rg/decompose/releases/tag/v0.9.1>
- <https://github.com/s0rg/decompose/releases/tag/v1.0.0>
- <https://github.com/s0rg/decompose/releases/tag/v1.11.8>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/decompose>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/decompose.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/decompose.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph