[riedel]

>Similar to Compose or Kubernetes files, you can declare what you want to run without having to deal with all the complexities of running the workload.

Seems to be part of the idea. However, I personally have a bit of a hard time imagining this for the average developer. Maybe it will have the nice side effect of me digging further into systemd. However, most the compose stuff I used had to do with network and mounts. Wonder how to declare this in a systemd manner.

[hosh]

I set up and deploy infra at my company, and I do it with Kubernetes.

I like the self-healing aspects of Kubernetes, but even something like k0s has a large, 1GB footprint that I don't want to have for my self-hosted personal projects.

Using podman and quadlet looks like it solves exactly what I want -- just enough kubernetes on a very small footprint.

This is not a replacement for docker-compose. I've never found a good use for that in infra because it lacks self-healing, so it stayed in the dev stack. If I was more proficient with Nix, I'd probably use that instead of docker-compose.

[creshal]

It feels more like an alternative for the lxc/lxd/nspawn crowds who're using long-running containers in fixed setups, rather than ad hoc spinning up of a bunch of related containers for one particular (and temporary) task.