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From: Brandon Rozek <rozekbrandon@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2022 20:31:27 -0500
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+title: "Rootless Docker-Compose with Podman"
+date: 2022-01-29T20:21:11-05:00
+draft: false
+tags: ["Containers"]
+math: false
+---
+
+One of the benefits of Podman over Docker is that it can run daemon-less and without root. However, `docker-compose` is by far my favorite way to create and maintain containers. Luckily, the Podman folks emulated the Docker CLI so that `docker-compose` works well with Podman!
+
+To install:
+
+```bash
+sudo dnf install -y podman podman-docker docker-compose
+```
+
+We can then emulate the docker socket rootless with the following commands:
+
+```bash
+systemctl --user enable podman.socket
+systemctl --user start podman.socket
+```
+
+At this point, we'll want to see if the daemon acts as expected
+
+```bash
+curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
+	--unix-socket /var/run/user/$UID/podman/podman.sock \
+    http://localhost/_ping
+```
+
+This should return `OK`. We then need to create an environmental variable to tell docker compose where the emulated docker socket lives.
+
+```bash
+export DOCKER_HOST=unix:///run/user/$UID/podman/podman.sock
+```
+
+To have this environmental variable persistent across reboots, add the above line to the user's `.bash_profile`.
+
+You'll need a configuration file `docker-compose.yml` defined. Here is a sample one that spins up an image updating service.
+
+```yaml
+version: "3.3"
+
+services:
+  watchtower:
+    image: docker.io/containrrr/watchtower 
+    container_name: watchtower
+    hostname: watchtower
+    environment:
+      PUID: 1000
+      PGID: 1000
+      TZ: US/Eastern
+    volumes:
+      - /var/run/podman/podman.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro
+    restart: always
+```
+
+Now we can run `docker-compose`!
+
+```bash
+docker-compose ps
+```