Podman has docker-compatible CLI, Dockerfiles and even docker-compose compatibility. It won't be as painful as you worry. So just give it a try. And besides the

Podman has docker-compatible CLI, Dockerfiles and even docker-compose compatibility. It won't be as painful as you worry. So just give it a try. And besides the advantages already mentioned (rootless, no-daemon and isolated network namespaces), podman has some additional nifty features like pods (like in K8s), quadlets (containers managed by systemd), compatibility with k8s manifests, etc.