The docker-compose program can work with podman out of the box for normal containers (i think) and with rootless containers if you have give it the correct sock

The docker-compose program can work with podman out of the box for normal containers (i think) and with rootless containers if you have give it the correct socket. I have DOCKER_HOST set to $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/podman/podman.sock and i can use docker-compose.yml files. podman-compose is indeed a separate script. I had some bugs with that, but it might be fixed now. I can't speak for it working for anything beyond basic stuff, because I haven't yet used it for anything complex.