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A drop-in replacement for docker-compose that runs your existing docker-compose.yml on rootless Podman — one static Rust binary, no daemon, no Python.

podup: docker-compose translated to rootless Podman.

Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source (MIT)

Platforms

  • Mac  Talks to the podman machine VM over its host-side unix:// socket. Needs Podman 5.x or 6.x; install with Homebrew (brew install glyndor/tap/podup).
  • Windows  Talks to the podman machine VM over its npipe:// named pipe. Needs Podman 5.x or 6.x; install with Scoop from the Glyndor bucket.
  • Linux  Needs rootless Podman 5.x or 6.x with the user socket listening (systemctl --user enable --now podman.socket). Debian 12 and Ubuntu 24.04 ship Podman 4.x and are not supported.
podup up pulling images and bringing a two-service compose stack online, then podup ps listing the running services and their published ports.
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Features

  1.  Command line interface
  2.  Rust
  3.  Container Orchestration

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What is podup?

podup is a drop-in replacement for docker-compose. It runs your existing docker-compose.yml on rootless Podman over Podman's native libpod REST API — no daemon, no Python, no root.

It ships as a single statically-linked binary written in Rust and implements the Compose Specification: YAML anchors, extends, include, profiles, env_file, and variable substitution. Startup is dependency-aware through depends_on conditions (service_started, service_healthy, service_completed_successfully), and it supports replicas, secrets, configs, and a watch mode that syncs, rebuilds, or restarts services on file changes.

The full command set is here — up, down, start, stop, ps, logs, exec, run, cp, build, pull, restart, and more — and you can export any stack to native systemd Quadlet units to run it under systemd with no daemon. podup is also usable as a Rust library, so you can embed its compose parser and engine in your own tools.