I ran a build that works with docker and hit a traceback with a simple fix. I symlinked docker and docker-compose to podman and podman-compose. There is env var that is of the form A=B=C which needs this patch to allow podman-compose to work: $ diff -u /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/podman_compose.py~ /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/podman_compose.py --- /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/podman_compose.py~ 2022-06-14 14:16:45.825406742 +0100 +++ /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/podman_compose.py 2022-06-14 14:16:45.825406742 +0100 @@ -1502,7 +1502,7 @@ if args.workdir: cnt["working_dir"] = args.workdir env = dict(cnt.get('environment', {})) if args.env: - additional_env_vars = dict(map(lambda each: each.split('='), args.env)) + additional_env_vars = dict(map(lambda each: each.split('=', 1), args.env)) env.update(additional_env_vars) cnt['environment'] = env if not args.service_ports: With this fix the build worked as expected. Let me know if you want this in a bugzilla. Barry