diff --git a/playbooks/roles/install-docker/tasks/main.yaml b/playbooks/roles/install-docker/tasks/main.yaml
index d59b469a4b..2159efa1f2 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/install-docker/tasks/main.yaml
+++ b/playbooks/roles/install-docker/tasks/main.yaml
@@ -47,7 +47,10 @@
       # to migrate to the new docker plugin system or distro packages, but
       # until then this is a quick workaround that will get things moving
       # again.
+      # The explicit pin of docker is required as py docker 7.0 introduced
+      # incompatibilities with python docker-compose.
       - requests<2.30.0
+      - docker<7.0.0
       - docker-compose
     state: present
     executable: pip3