Not sure I follow; you don't need to use podlet at all unless you're migrating from existing compose files and want some help. I don't use it outside of a few o

Not sure I follow; you don't need to use podlet at all unless you're migrating from existing compose files and want some help. I don't use it outside of a few one-offs. If you're referring to "pods" as in the kubernetes-style container orchestration, than you don't have to use those either. Did you happen to try this on Ubuntu/Debian? Both distros tend to have very old versions of Podman in the repos. TBH podman was not worth using before 4.2 or so, no matter what Red Hat said. I'm not sure I'm following your situation/ use-case though. If you're already running podman containers as systemd units, then the main benefit would probably be better systemd integration and without having to write separate compose files. If you're fine with the latter than A) you're the only person I've met who's happy with podman compose and B) you probably won't gain that much from switching to quadlets. Out of curiosity, does systemd spinning up podman-compose still properly keep the resulting container processes in the same cgroup? If not, that would be a decent benefit to swapping to quadlets.