diff --git a/import-layers/meta-virtualization/recipes-containers/docker-compose/files/0001-Allow-newer-versions-of-requests.patch b/import-layers/meta-virtualization/recipes-containers/docker-compose/files/0001-Allow-newer-versions-of-requests.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6fc7bb4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/import-layers/meta-virtualization/recipes-containers/docker-compose/files/0001-Allow-newer-versions-of-requests.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+From 15cf1a31f5af8f09531bb837b92bd6ea49bd1744 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Pascal Bach <pascal.bach@siemens.com>
+Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 08:41:21 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] Allow newer versions of requests
+
+docker compose has strict requirements to use requests < 2.12
+
+However it works without issues with newer versions, so this patch removes the check.
+
+Upstream-Status: Pending
+
+Signed-off-by: Pascal Bach <pascal.bach@siemens.com>
+---
+ setup.py | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
+index 192a0f6..f444757 100644
+--- a/setup.py
++++ b/setup.py
+@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ install_requires = [
+     'cached-property >= 1.2.0, < 2',
+     'docopt >= 0.6.1, < 0.7',
+     'PyYAML >= 3.10, < 4',
+-    'requests >= 2.6.1, != 2.11.0, < 2.12',
++    'requests >= 2.6.1, != 2.11.0',
+     'texttable >= 0.9.0, < 0.10',
+     'websocket-client >= 0.32.0, < 1.0',
+     'docker >= 2.5.1, < 3.0',
+-- 
+2.1.4
+
diff --git a/import-layers/meta-virtualization/recipes-containers/docker-compose/python3-docker-compose_1.16.1.bb b/import-layers/meta-virtualization/recipes-containers/docker-compose/python3-docker-compose_1.16.1.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4e761d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/import-layers/meta-virtualization/recipes-containers/docker-compose/python3-docker-compose_1.16.1.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+SUMMARY = "Multi-container orchestration for Docker"
+HOMEPAGE = "https://www.docker.com/"
+LICENSE = "Apache-2.0"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=435b266b3899aa8a959f17d41c56def8"
+
+SRC_URI += "file://0001-Allow-newer-versions-of-requests.patch"
+
+inherit pypi setuptools3
+
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "8dcadf09143600fcb573b43f446c8f9a"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "fb46a6a2c4d193a3ff1e4d7208eea920b629c81dc92257c87f3f93095cfb0bdf"
+
+RDEPENDS_${PN} = "\
+  ${PYTHON_PN}-cached-property \
+  ${PYTHON_PN}-certifi \
+  ${PYTHON_PN}-chardet \
+  ${PYTHON_PN}-colorama \
+  ${PYTHON_PN}-docker \
+  ${PYTHON_PN}-docker-pycreds \
+  ${PYTHON_PN}-dockerpty \
+  ${PYTHON_PN}-docopt \
+  ${PYTHON_PN}-enum \
+  ${PYTHON_PN}-idna \
+  ${PYTHON_PN}-jsonschema \
+  ${PYTHON_PN}-pyyaml \
+  ${PYTHON_PN}-requests \
+  ${PYTHON_PN}-six \
+  ${PYTHON_PN}-terminal \
+  ${PYTHON_PN}-texttable \
+  ${PYTHON_PN}-urllib3 \
+  ${PYTHON_PN}-websocket-client \
+  "