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> For everything else...

Except for:

  - Docker Compose (because podman-compose has a large amount of open issues https://github.com/containers/podman-compose/issues)
  - Docker Swarm (since Docker provides a lightweight orchestrator out of the box), you'd need to use something like K3s or another Kubernetes distro
  - anything that uses the Docker socket (/var/run/docker.sock), so you can forget about running anything like Portainer or any of the other tools out there

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No longer true. Podman nowadays ships with an optional daemon that serves a Docker-compatible interface, so you can use docker-compose directly if that's what you want.

See for example: https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/podman-docker-compose

That does seem better! Of course, there are a few lingering issues with support, but overall the trend is good: https://github.com/containers/podman/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%...

Of course, there's no Swarm support, as evidenced by that very article:

> Caveats

> One known caveat is that Podman has not and will not implement the Swarm function. Therefore, if your Docker Compose instance uses Swarm, it will not work with Podman.

Feels like people will either be pigeonholed into Kubernetes for all of their deployments, or will have to migrate over to something like Hashicorp Nomad: https://www.nomadproject.io/

Curiously, it also supports Podman as a task driver: https://www.nomadproject.io/docs/drivers/podman

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