While Docker Compose is normally used for development and testing, it can also be used for deploying production applications. For the sake of this tutorial, I concentrate on dev-and-test scenarios.

If you've built scores of docker-compose.yml files and are migrating to AlmaLinux, you'll need to install the podman-compose tool so you can keep using those files. Jack Wallen shows you how.

Docker (or specifically, the docker command) is used to manage individual containers, docker-compose is used to manage multi-container applications and Kubernetes is a container orchestration tool.

Podman was designed as a near drop-in replacement for Docker. Commands like podman run, podman ps, and podman build mirror their Docker equivalents, reducing the learning curve. Developers can often ...