Podman supports pods, hence the name. It follows the k8s approach, and it’s nowhere close to a drop-in replacement for docker-compose, but managing multiple related containers is supported as a core feature.

https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2019/01/15/podman-managin...

> Unless you need docker-compose!

There's a solution for that :) (Note: still somewhat beta quality)

https://github.com/containers/podman-compose