diff --git a/INSTALL.md b/INSTALL.md
index b67dd25f..eb677143 100644
--- a/INSTALL.md
+++ b/INSTALL.md
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-This assumes that you have Docker and Docker Compose already installed.
+This assumes that you have Docker (version 17.05 or greater)
+and Docker Compose (version 1.6.0 or greater) already installed.
 
 ### Prepare things
 
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml.example b/docker-compose.yml.example
index 501a478c..b44449f7 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml.example
+++ b/docker-compose.yml.example
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 ## Use this as a template to set up docker-compose, or as guide to set up other
 ## orchestration services
 
-version: '3.1'
+version: '2'
 services:
 
   ## Python3 container for backend API