Using Docker Compose with Podman

When it was first released, Docker quickly gained consensus thanks to its intuitive approach to container management. Along with the main container engine solution, another great feature was introduced to help users orchestrate multiple containers on a single host: Docker Compose.

The idea behind Compose is quite simple – it's a tool that can be used to orchestrate multi-container applications that are supposed to interact together on a single host and configured with a declarative file in YAML format. All the applications that are executed in a Compose stack are defined as services that can communicate with the other containers in the stack with a transparent name resolution.

The configuration file is named docker-compose.yaml and has a simple syntax where one or more services and related volumes are created and started.

Development teams can benefit from the stack's automation to quickly test applications on a single host...