Podman-compose Alternatives

Reviews and mentions

• Podman vs Docker?
  2 projects | reddit.com/r/devops | 13 Nov 2021

  Podman does a version of compose cashed podman compose

• Podman in Linux
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Sep 2021

  > For everything else...

  Except for:

    - Docker Compose (because podman-compose has a large amount of open issues https://github.com/containers/podman-compose/issues)

• Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods
  25 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Aug 2021

  More love needs to go into docker-compose for podman. https://github.com/containers/podman-compose

  25 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Aug 2021

  podman has been an amazing project to follow. Since early 2020 I've been using it for rootless containers with no daemon on my Linux development environment. Development pace is picking up and I get excited every time I get a notification from GitHub about a new tagged release.

  As a bonus, the podman-compose script https://github.com/containers/podman-compose/ is getting good too!

• Docker to start charging for Docker Desktop in companies with over 250 employees or $10M revenue
  3 projects | reddit.com/r/devops | 31 Aug 2021

  I’m not a Mac person but apparently yes, though not natively without a backing Linux VM a-la podman-machine or vagrant. I have not had the opportunity to try it but podman-compose looks fun.

• Docker Desktop will require a paid monthly subscription per userfor enterprises over 250 employees from Jan 31 2022
  12 projects | reddit.com/r/programming | 31 Aug 2021

  There is Podman Compose which takes Docker Compose and converts it to Podman setups. Within reason of cause, regular users can't just compromise system security.

• Replacing Docker Compose with Podman (Debian)
  1 project | reddit.com/r/selfhosted | 8 May 2021

  I initially used podman-compose with docker-compose.yml files, which unlike OP's approach of using podman as root and the actual docker-compose tool, does allow using compose files in rootless modes, but I've since switched to using ansible and the containers.podman collection since I'm using ansible for setting up the host to run podman and other non-containerized services that are just using systemd for management/isolation.

• Ignoring Docker updates is a paid feature now
  8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 May 2021

  > Simply use alias docker=podman and you’ll never know the difference.

  Unless you use Docker Swarm, in which case you'll lose access to simple orchestration that's not overengineered, unlike Kubernetes which you'll now be forced to use.

  Or unless you use software that depends on the Docker socket being available (such as for Portainer, a graphical management utility [1]), in which case you'll lose the ability to use such software.

  Or maybe you're one of the countless folks who tried using Podman but ran into a variety of issues that still haven't been addressed in many cases [2].

  Or maybe you use Docker Compose and now have just lost the ability to run simple single node orchestration with YAML files, because Podman Compose is oftentimes flawed as well [3].

  That's not to say that what Podman is attempting to do shouldn't be applauded, yet claiming that exchanging one set of leaky abstractions for another set of leaky abstractions is painless and will work for all of the people out there simply isn't true. I don't see Podman being a backwards compatible alternative to Docker on an API level, it'll simply kill it off eventually by supporting the OCI standard for containers and being a Kubernetes runtime at the lower level. Lots of people will need to re-engineer their approach to running containers and lots of time will be necessary to migrate away from Docker.

  [1] https://www.portainer.io/

  [2] https://github.com/containers/podman/issues

  [3] https://github.com/containers/podman-compose/issues

  8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 May 2021
• Does podman use the same syntax like Kubernetes?
  1 project | reddit.com/r/devops | 4 Apr 2021

  There was never a great way to do it. podman-compose tried to mimic docker-compose and you used to be able to pass kubernetes yaml back and forth. So the answer is you can do it the docker-compose way or the k8s way, but there is no "podman" way.

• Donating Docker Distribution to the CNCF
  1 project | reddit.com/r/docker | 7 Feb 2021

  It looks like there is a community project for applying docker-compose files with podman: https://github.com/containers/podman-compose

• Why isn't rootless default?
  1 project | reddit.com/r/docker | 7 Jan 2021

  Btw there is https://github.com/containers/podman-compose which should basically replace docker compose.