GP is talking about podman with generated systemd unit files (a.k.a. podman quadlet[0]), not the docker-compose-compatible podman-compose ...and I'd agree, systemd can manage services on a system just fine, and even better than any compose workload ever could.

journald will help with logs, and the pull policy[1] helps with mutable tags. What help do you need with "orphan containers"?

[0]: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-quadlet.1.h...

[1]: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-image.unit....