You can also just use podman compose without learning a new system and just use published compose files directly.

rootless docker isn't too difficult (anymore). I wouldn't change a running system but for a new system it's always podman.

I like quadlets, but I wish podlet could handle translating external networks. Right now, it just fails, and needs manual intervention. Also, afaik, there's no way to preserve comments when translating.

For me, it's the opposite. I vastly prefer the compose syntax. In general, I guess I prefer yaml based syntax to toml or json based ones. It's just more readable due to the indentation.

Quadlets 😎

What specifically do you like about it that makes you prefer it over docker? 🙂

Nothing really critical.

Differences from where I'm at

• docker doesn't have native systemd integration ("quadlets")
• docker needs a daemon running
• podman has pods (like kubernetes) which are great for isolation of complex services
• you can run podman containers with kubernetes yaml

Apart from the other comment: rootless podman is easier to set up (there's basically no set up needed).

I just set up a server running centos that has podman pre installed and I couldn't get it to work without installing additional packages and following guides.

Different==hard

It's not. I mean you could use podman compose but it's no longer developed.

You can use docker compose with podman, or use podman compose.

If you need a collection of containers run it as a k8s pod.

Trying to do a small thing in k3s is super simple. Trying to do a big thing in docker compose is awful.

Afaik it works perfectly. Podman can use Docker hub with zero issues, and is sometimes configured as the default repo for fetching images without a qualified name. Conversely, I think Docker works perfectly with the Podman ecosystem repos too (like quay.io)

Check out this blog post which details how uids work within rootless containers. It's useful troubleshooting knowledge to have.

Could be an SELinux issue. Look up mounting with the :z/:Z option.

You sound like you work at us-east-1

The way quadlets work is just such a struggle, if you have been using compose for years

Learning new things is hard, sure, but quadlets are not that complex. Take a few hours to sit down and read through the manual or a tutorial, and you'll find they're easier to maintain, write, and deploy.

Hot take: Docker compose is poorly designed, and very little thought went into the deployment side. It only 'won' because it was there first, and bad habits are tough to break.