When did you last use it? It _does_ support docker compose. Has for a while now actually.
I love it on Linux. The Mac version is not as smooth yet, but, for my use case, still works a hell of a lot better than docker desktop. There is something deeply wrong with docker desktop's networking, and I literally have to restart it almost every time I make a change to one of our services. Not an issue with podman.
Re:Docker on Mac is slow. Here's the fix
by Arbortheus on Friday December 23, 2022 @09:36AM
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Huh this was literally 2 weeks ago I looked into this and ended up using a third-party community podman docker compose substitute. I will have another look.
https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/podman-docker-compose
Podman listens on the docker socket, and the official docker-compose just works
Re:Docker on Mac is slow. Here's the fix
by Arbortheus on Sunday December 25, 2022 @03:55PM
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Oh wow I wasn’t expecting it to work that way. I was expecting to have to use some kind of podman aliased compose alternative that copies the CLI of docker compose.
It does, but last time I tried „docker-compose build“ on podman it just failed. So it doesn’t seem to just work as a drop-in replacement
I haven’t used it much I have to admit. But I also experienced the issues you are talking about.
I thought it was because I also have docker desktop on the same machine, but probably that’s not an issue at all and it’s podman remote that is unreliable.
Some short-lived containers like our repo’s linter takes easily 4x as long to run in podman as it did with Docker. Immediately I have lost productivity.
It’s incredibly unreliable, every time I start my computer I have to podman machine stop then podman machine start because there’s something broken about how it gets initialised at startup. I’ve spent ages debugging random broken functionality.
It doesn’t support docker-compose. There’s a community project called podman-compose, but it’s not great because it won’t do stuff like build containers concurrently, and it has random weird quirks about volumes already existing when you do podman-compose up —-build whereas docker doesn’t complain for the same compose file.
Overall podman has been a massive regret for me, and I wish I hadn’t given up my docker desktop just to save a minuscule amount of money.