diff --git a/contrib/storage-druid/README.md b/contrib/storage-druid/README.md
index 479024aa067..beeddc39e63 100644
--- a/contrib/storage-druid/README.md
+++ b/contrib/storage-druid/README.md
@@ -33,27 +33,27 @@ Following is the default registration configuration.
 
 ### Druid storage plugin developer notes.
 
-* Building the plugin 
+* Building the plugin
 
     `mvn install -pl contrib/storage-druid`
 
 * Building DRILL
 
     `mvn clean install -DskipTests`
-    
+
 * Start Drill In Embedded Mode (mac)
 
     ```shell script
     distribution/target/apache-drill-1.20.0-SNAPSHOT/apache-drill-1.20.0-SNAPSHOT/bin/drill-embedded
     ```
-  
+
 * Starting Druid (Docker and Docker Compose required)
     ```
     cd contrib/storage-druid/src/test/resources/druid
-    docker-compose up -d
+    docker compose up -d
     ```
-  
+
   * There is an `Indexing Task Json` in the same folder as the docker compose file. It can be used to ingest the wikipedia datasource.
-  
+
   * Make sure the druid storage plugin is enabled in Drill.
 
diff --git a/contrib/storage-druid/src/test/resources/druid/docker-compose.yaml b/contrib/storage-druid/src/test/resources/druid/docker-compose.yaml
index 700e9704dd8..5ff1400ecf9 100644
--- a/contrib/storage-druid/src/test/resources/druid/docker-compose.yaml
+++ b/contrib/storage-druid/src/test/resources/druid/docker-compose.yaml
@@ -16,8 +16,6 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 #
 
-version: "2.2"
-
 volumes:
   metadata_data: {}
   middle_var: {}
diff --git a/distribution/docker-compose/README.txt b/distribution/docker-compose/README.txt
index bd8bb6d0404..da988820032 100644
--- a/distribution/docker-compose/README.txt
+++ b/distribution/docker-compose/README.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ launch. Logging is redirected to stdout.
 In the docker-cluster-mode directory:
 
 1. docker build -t apache/drill-cluster-mode
-2. docker-compose up
+2. docker compose up
 
 Then access the web UI at http://localhost:8047 or connect a JDBC client to
 jdbc:drill:drillbit=localhost or jdbc:drill:zk=localhost but note that you
@@ -15,11 +15,11 @@ to use a ZooKeeper JDBC URL.
 
 To launch a cluster of 3 Drillbits
 
-3. docker-compose up --scale drillbit=3
+3. docker compose up --scale drillbit=3
 
 but first note that to use docker-compose's "scale" feature to run multiple
 Drillbit containers on a single host you will need to remove the host port
 mappings from the compose file to prevent collisions (see the comments
 on the relevant lines in that file). Once the Drillbits are launched run
-`docker-compose ps` to list the ephemeral ports that have been allocated on
+`docker compose ps` to list the ephemeral ports that have been allocated on
 the host.
diff --git a/distribution/docker-compose/docker-compose.yml b/distribution/docker-compose/docker-compose.yml
index d43bfa9e6f7..4fcf8053239 100644
--- a/distribution/docker-compose/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/distribution/docker-compose/docker-compose.yml
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 #
 
-version: "3.9"
 services:
   zookeeper:
     container_name: zookeeper