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by jeffparsons 1741 days ago
The problem with making this work, IIRC, is that Docker Compose doesn't actually "compose" Docker commands, but instead _re-implements_ a bunch of functionality itself through its Python libraries. So you'd actually need to bring your own CLI-compatible Docker Compose implementation for Podman rather than just making your Docker replacement compatible.
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judge2020 1741 days ago
Podman solved this by just re-implementing docker’s socket API (which does mean it now requires a daemon to use compose) https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/podman-docker-compose
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Cu3PO42 1741 days ago
In addition to the sibling comment (which mentions that you can use the original docker-compose) such a CLI-compatible reimplementation also exists [0]. It's not always a 100% drop-in replacement, but gets you pretty far in my experience.

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

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solarkraft 1741 days ago
Anecdotally I can say that I ran into issues with fairly simple files (2 years ago). I’m going to try out the alternatives before coming back to this.
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