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I used it for a work project a few months ago, and it ran fine.", "excerpt": "podman-compose has gotten much better. I used it for a work project a few months ago, and it ran fine. That said, I know there are some random little things podman-compose doesn't support, so be careful. What I'm experimenting with right now is defining stuff with a Kubernetes yaml, which podman also supports: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-kube.1.html. It's slightly more verbose than docker-compose", "context": "", "use_case": "running compose files on Podman", "switched_from": "", "story": "Podman v6.0.0"}, {"id": 780256849, "item_id": 48766053, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48766053", "by": "cyberax", "date": "2026-07-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I'm also using podman-compose that is small and delightful", "excerpt": "I switched from Docker to rootless Podman for our build server. Completely positive experience so far. Our builds went _down_ from 1 minute to 2 seconds. I'm also using podman-compose that is small and delightful (I had to fix a few bugs there). 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I used it for a work project a few months ago, and it ran fine.", "excerpt": "podman-compose has gotten much better. I used it for a work project a few months ago, and it ran fine. That said, I know there are some random little things podman-compose doesn't support, so be careful. What I'm experimenting with right now is defining stuff with a Kubernetes yaml, which podman also supports: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-kube.1.html. It's slightly more verbose than docker-compose", "context": "", "use_case": "running compose files on Podman", "switched_from": "", "story": "Podman v6.0.0"}, {"id": 780377168, "item_id": 48773573, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48773573", "by": "spockz", "date": "2026-07-03", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Currently I have a systemd service that tries to start my services with `podman compose `. Sometimes this fails", "excerpt": "Yes. I think podlet was one of the tools that the output of podman, or the quadlet tool, suggested I use. I will try again. Currently I have a systemd service that tries to start my services with `podman compose `. Sometimes this fails, when I start the service interactively it just works. Unknown what exactly is the issue.", "context": "", "use_case": "starting services via systemd", "switched_from": "", "story": "Podman v6.0.0"}, {"id": 780256849, "item_id": 48766053, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48766053", "by": "cyberax", "date": "2026-07-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I'm also using podman-compose that is small and delightful", "excerpt": "I switched from Docker to rootless Podman for our build server. Completely positive experience so far. Our builds went _down_ from 1 minute to 2 seconds. I'm also using podman-compose that is small and delightful (I had to fix a few bugs there). It's just one Python file that you can copy.", "context": "", "use_case": "compose files on Podman", "switched_from": "", "story": "Podman v6.0.0"}, {"id": 780255730, "item_id": 48765983, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48765983", "by": "lovelettr", "date": "2026-07-02", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "If you don\u2019t want to give up compose entirely, podman-compose exists.", "excerpt": "I switched a few years back and use Quadlets instead of compose now. Converting compose files to Quadlets is pretty mechanical once you get the hang of it. Highly recommend Podman overall; there are some quirky edge cases, but for the most part it\u2019s a smooth replacement for Docker. If you don\u2019t want to give up compose entirely, podman-compose exists. I just prefer Quadlets so I haven\u2019t used it much myself.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Podman v6.0.0"}]}