Start a Podman Compose stack in the background with `podman compose up -d`
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Documented steps
Ensure a compose provider is installed (podman-compose via `pip3 install podman-compose`, or docker-compose). `podman compose` is a thin wrapper that shells out to the provider; if both exist docker-compose takes precedence by default.
cd into the directory containing your compose.yaml (or compose.yml / docker-compose.yml).
Run `podman compose up -d` to create and start all services detached. First run pulls images and builds ones that have a build context.
Verify with `podman compose ps` and stream logs with `podman compose logs -f`.
The project name defaults to the basename of the project directory; containers/networks are named after it. Docs: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-compose.1.html
Known gotchas
podman compose is a thin wrapper over an external provider — install podman-compose or docker-compose or it fails. Point elsewhere via compose_providers in containers.conf[engine] or PODMAN_COMPOSE_PROVIDER.
The 'executes an external command' warning can be silenced with compose_warning_logs=false in containers.conf or PODMAN_COMPOSE_WARNING_LOGS=false.
Ports below 1024 and host bind mounts need rootless handling (see rootless route).
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