podup
docker-compose, translated to rootless Podman
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podup runs your existing docker-compose.yml on rootless Podman. It speaks Podman's native libpod API, so there is no daemon, no Python and no root: one static Rust binary. It implements the Compose Specification (anchors, extends, include, profiles, env_file, variable substitution) with dependency-aware startup, healthchecks, replicas, secrets, configs and a watch mode. Any stack exports to systemd Quadlet units. Signed releases for Linux, macOS and Windows, from apt, Homebrew or Scoop.
PH · launched Sep 7, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views
Niche: developer command-line tools · 226 launches, 5 in the last 7 days ▼ -67% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Open Source
- Developer Tools
- GitHub
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Could you build this?
No Re-implementing the Docker Compose specification in a static Rust binary that speaks directly to the low-level Podman libpod REST API/socket without daemons requires deep systems and container runtime expertise.
What it would actually take: The stack would be Rust using hyper/tokio to interface over Unix domain sockets to the Podman libpod API, with full parser support for the Docker Compose spec (YAML parsing, DAG dependency resolution, variable interpolation, healthchecks, volume/network mapping). The core challenge is correctly translating container namespaces, cgroups, rootless UID/GID mappings, and complex networking topologies across Podman primitives. This requires deep systems programming and Linux container runtime domain knowledge.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 234 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #181 of 235 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 298 days after the earliest competitor.
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