Handle rootless Podman Compose gotchas (bind mounts, low ports, volumes)

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Documented steps

  1. Bind-mount host paths with `volumes: - /host/path:/container/path`; in rootless mode the host user maps to UID 0 inside, so permissions must allow both.
  2. For host ports below 1024 in rootless mode, go rootful (system podman.socket/sudo) or map to an unprivileged host port like `8080:80`.
  3. Use named volumes for persistent data; ownership follows the rootless user's mapped UID.
  4. Storage lives under ~/.local/share/containers — leave disk headroom there.
  5. To use unmodified docker-compose against a rootless podman: enable the user podman.socket and set DOCKER_HOST=unix:///run/user/$(id -u)/podman/podman.sock.

Known gotchas

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