I ditched Docker for Podman

I do not know: the lack of proper docker compose support it is a problem for me. About security: gVistor adoption failure in Google is a proof that containerization cannot be enforced easily and container will always be less secure than a VM.

If you want proper security go to firecracker [^1]. Podman is the "RedHat/IBM docker-way" but I see very little benefit overall; never less if it works for you great and go with it!

[^1]: https://firecracker-microvm.github.io

Podman 4.7 supports both the ordinary compose (Go implementation) and older Python podman-compose. But personally I moved to quadlets and didn't look back.

There is a podman-compose which works almost as drop-in replacement.

Almost because most common commands work, but I have not check all.

And almost, because for some docker-compose.yaml which you downloaded/LLM generated you may need to prepend `docker.io/` to the image name