Podman-compose

podman s variation of docker docker-compose.

• configure overridable docker run params in yaml
• manage multiple networked services together
• less typing to interact with services (containers implied by directory)
• autogenerate a systemd service that you can start with boot

Documentation

github	https://github.com/containers/podman-compose
(yaml) compose spec	https://github.com/compose-spec/compose-spec/blob/master/spec.md#compose-file

Example

# ${PROJECT}/compose.yml

version: '3'
services:
  mediawiki:
    # https://hub.docker.com/_/mediawiki
    image: docker.io/mediawiki:1.40

    restart: always

    ports:
      # bind container-port: 80 to localhost: 8080
      # [HOST:]CONTAINER[/PROTOCOL]
      - 8080:80

    volumes:
      # share dir './config/images' relative to compose.yml within container at '/var/www/html/images'
      - ./config/images:/var/www/html/images
      - ./data:/var/www/html/data
      - ./config/LocalSettings.php:/var/www/html/LocalSettings.php

alias pc='sudo podman-compose'
pc up -d                 # start all services from compose.yml
pc ps                    # list all started services
pc exec ${service} bash  # bash within service under key 'mediawiki'
pc stop                  # stop all services from compose.yml, cleanup containers
pc logs ${service}       # show logs for service