@epugh make sure that you have docker service enabled in circle.yml
machine:
pre:
# https://discuss.circleci.com/t/docker-1-10-0-is-available-beta/2100
- curl -sSL https://s3.amazonaws.com/circle-downloads/install-circleci-docker.sh | bash -s -- 1.10.0
- pip install docker-compose==1.8.0
services:
- docker