Could not agree more. As a Fedora user I was mildly intrigued when Podman showed up, I played with it briefly but stopped because most of my projects used docker-compose, which doesn't work with Podman.
When I went to work at Red Hat I decided to really try Podman, and I love it now. Once I discovered that Podman supports Kubernetes Pods (same YAML and all) I realized how clunky docker-compose actually is. Since most of my projects now run in K8s anyway, it's awesome to have the app run as a Pod locally so it can easily be tested with any sidecars in the same configuration.
There are still uses for docker-compose, and I don't expect it to disappear from my life completely any time soon, but Podman does have a great place in my toolkit.
When I went to work at Red Hat I decided to really try Podman, and I love it now. Once I discovered that Podman supports Kubernetes Pods (same YAML and all) I realized how clunky docker-compose actually is. Since most of my projects now run in K8s anyway, it's awesome to have the app run as a Pod locally so it can easily be tested with any sidecars in the same configuration.
There are still uses for docker-compose, and I don't expect it to disappear from my life completely any time soon, but Podman does have a great place in my toolkit.