EDIT: For some context, I recently gave podman another go. I have a few services on my homelab server set up in docker containers, so I tried migrating to podman.
After the second major bug (open issue on github) I encountered looked like it would require completely dropping using compose files to work around, I gave up and went back to docker.
I like the idea of podman, but it’s just not stable. I’ll try again in a year or so.
As a bonus, docker’s CLI is significantly nicer.
Sounds like you are more interested in how the “house” was painted while I’m more focused on the construction materials and architecture.
If you truly don’t care what the source code looks like or how it works internally, then we aren’t even having the same conversation.
For sure, that’s why I asked what you meant by “clean”.
Ultimately, I’m a podman user, not a podman developer. So the interface and user experience matter a lot more to me than the internal architecture. Though architectural decisions to tend to affect the trajectory of a project as a whole, docker compose still seems to be holding up just fine.