diff --git a/WORKSPACE.yaml b/WORKSPACE.yaml
index ac8a532d4ed6c3..ca81a830dc94e5 100644
--- a/WORKSPACE.yaml
+++ b/WORKSPACE.yaml
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ defaultArgs:
   REPLICATED_API_TOKEN: ""
   REPLICATED_APP: ""
   dockerVersion: 20.10.17
+  dockerComposeVersion: "2.10.0-gitpod.1"
 provenance:
   enabled: true
   slsa: true
diff --git a/components/docker-up/BUILD.yaml b/components/docker-up/BUILD.yaml
index b5920968e38455..c72089bf64223e 100644
--- a/components/docker-up/BUILD.yaml
+++ b/components/docker-up/BUILD.yaml
@@ -10,10 +10,12 @@ packages:
       - components/common-go:lib
     argdeps:
       - dockerVersion
+      - dockerComposeVersion
     env:
       - CGO_ENABLED=0
       - GOOS=linux
       - DOCKER_VERSION=${dockerVersion}
+      - DOCKER_COMPOSE_VERSION=${dockerComposeVersion}
     prep:
       - ["mv", "docker-up/main.go", "."]
       - ["rmdir", "docker-up"]
@@ -38,18 +40,22 @@ packages:
       dontTest: true
   - name: app
     type: generic
+    argdeps:
+      - dockerComposeVersion
     deps:
       - :bin-docker-up
       - :bin-runc-facade
     config:
+      buildArgs:
+        DOCKER_COMPOSE_VERSION: ${dockerComposeVersion}
       commands:
         - ["mv", "components-docker-up--bin-docker-up/docker-up", "docker-up"]
         - ["rm", "-r", "components-docker-up--bin-docker-up"]
         - ["mv", "components-docker-up--bin-runc-facade/docker-up", "runc-facade"]
         - ["rm", "-r", "components-docker-up--bin-runc-facade"]
         # Override docker-compose with custom version https://github.com/gitpod-io/compose/pull/1
-        - ["curl", "--fail", "-sSL", "https://github.com/gitpod-io/compose/releases/download/v2.10.0-gitpod.0/docker-compose-linux-x86_64", "-o", "docker-compose-linux-x86_64"]
-        - ["curl", "--fail", "-sSL", "https://github.com/gitpod-io/compose/releases/download/v2.10.0-gitpod.0/checksums.txt", "-o", "checksums.txt"]
+        - ["curl", "--fail", "-sSL", "https://github.com/gitpod-io/compose/releases/download/v${DOCKER_COMPOSE_VERSION}/docker-compose-linux-x86_64", "-o", "docker-compose-linux-x86_64"]
+        - ["curl", "--fail", "-sSL", "https://github.com/gitpod-io/compose/releases/download/v${DOCKER_COMPOSE_VERSION}/checksums.txt", "-o", "checksums.txt"]
         - ["sha256sum", "-c", "checksums.txt"]
         - ["mv", "docker-compose-linux-x86_64", "docker-compose"]
         - ["chmod", "+x", "docker-compose"]
diff --git a/components/docker-up/dependencies.sh b/components/docker-up/dependencies.sh
index 023d861d10cfb1..206f1ba10af729 100755
--- a/components/docker-up/dependencies.sh
+++ b/components/docker-up/dependencies.sh
@@ -5,9 +5,10 @@
 
 set -euo pipefail
 
-DOCKER_COMPOSE_VERSION=2.8.0-gitpod.0
 RUNC_VERSION=v1.1.4
 
+# DOCKER_VERSION and DOCKER_COMPOSE_VERSION are defined in WORKSPACE.yaml
+
 curl -o docker.tgz      -fsSL "https://download.docker.com/linux/static/stable/x86_64/docker-${DOCKER_VERSION}.tgz"
 curl -o docker-compose  -fsSL "https://github.com/gitpod-io/compose/releases/download/${DOCKER_COMPOSE_VERSION}/docker-compose-linux-x86_64"
 curl -o runc            -fsSL "https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/releases/download/${RUNC_VERSION}/runc.amd64"