For anyone not using Podman just because lack of docker compose like functionality, there are multiple alternatives.

* Podman's official stance is to use Kubernetes YAML. The provide tools to generate this as well as convert docker-compose to kubeyaml

* podman-compose is not official, but it works well. you have to note that its not 100% compatible with dc but a lot of dc files run out of the box without modifications

* ansible with podman

* i personally use the podman cli with makefiles to get docker-compose like functionality

* also, podman v2 supports a docker comptaible rest api so its possible that docker-compose can be modified to support podman in the future