Blog post for the new Quadlet CLI

[berezovskyi]

Hi,

May I ask the dev team to write up a blog post announcing and explaining the newly introduced Quadlet CLI, please? Ideally, to explain it at a level that corresponds to someone who is using Docker Compose, has seen Quadlets in passing before but never tried them because of all the extra needed knowledge about systemd and is interested to have another look at Quadlets now that they are better supported in Podman. It would help if a non-trivial Docker Compose file is migrated to a Quadlet pod as an example while demonstrating best practices.

The 3rd-party blog posts I have seen so far either mention only the existence of each new command and a short description or show how to create containers/pods using Quadlets from scratch, which does not help much someone who has been using Docker Compose for many years as those guides don't provide a sufficient food for thought and guidance to someone contemplating a move from a non-trivial Docker Compose setup (i.e. with many compose files, each with multiple containers) to Podman+Quadlet.

Thanks,
Andrew

[baude]

Does the one from Friday qualify? https://blog.podman.io/2025/08/level-up-your-container-game-unified-quadlet-management-is-now-natively-in-podman/

[berezovskyi]

Oh, great, thanks, I totally missed it. Unfortunately, it is a fair bit similar to other posts that assume people did switch to Podman (I did not, as I decided to wait until there is a good migration path from Docker Compose – I cannot be the only one) and only shows Quadlet CLI support for containers, not pods (I am assuming that Podman Pods under Quadlet is the destination for migrating from Docker Compose).

P.S. Are there CLI tools that can generate Quadlet pod config from a Docker Compose file?