Using docker-compose with Podman rootless
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Summary
Using docker-compose with Podman rootless 2026-10-05 09:22:33 UTC Podman is a daemonless Docker alternative for Linux that can run without root access. However, it is less well known that Podman can expose a UNIX-domain socket compatible with the Docker API. This makes it work with most tools in the Docker ecosystem, such as docker-compose. Podman uses a Linux feature called user namespaces. With this, the root user inside a container is mapped to your host user. Other UIDs and GIDs are mapped to the ranges defined in