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.
I understand that to admins or experienced users service files probably feel like home. To an inexperienced user like me it added quite a lot of friction, especially compared to docker where I pretty much copy the compose file and run it.
I tried to use podman instead of docker, but decided that for my home use it might not be worth the headache, but I might reconsider now that I could use LLM to set those up for me.