Command Compatibility

Command Compatibility

Comparison of docker compose commands against quadlet-compose support:

docker compose	Status	Notes
attach	❌
build	✅	Builds images via podman build from service build contexts
commit	❌
config	✅	Validates and prints the compose configuration
convert	✅	Previews generated quadlet files without writing to disk
cp	❌
create	❌
down	✅	Stops systemd units, removes quadlet files, removes pod; supports --rmi, --volumes
events	❌
exec	✅	Executes a command in a running container via podman exec
export	❌
images	✅	Lists images via podman images filtered by project label
kill	✅	Kills containers via systemctl --user kill; supports --signal
logs	✅	Delegates to podman logs; supports --follow, --since, --tail, --timestamps, --until
ls	❌
pause	❌
port	✅	Prints public port for a port binding via podman port
ps	✅	Delegates to podman ps; supports --all, --filter, --format, --services, --quiet, --status
publish	❌
pull	✅	Pulls service images via podman pull; supports --quiet, --ignore-buildable, --ignore-pull-failures
push	❌
restart	✅	Delegates to down + up
rm	❌
run	✅	Runs one-off commands via podman run; supports -d, --entrypoint, -e, --name, -p, --rm, -u, -v, -w
scale	❌
start	❌
stats	❌
stop	❌
top	✅	Displays running processes via podman top; accepts optional service list
unpause	❌
up	✅	Parses compose, generates quadlet files, starts systemd units
version	✅	Supports --format pretty|json and --short
volumes	❌
wait	❌
watch	❌