You can make actual docker compose
use podman by running a user podman docker socket and setting that as an environment variable (export DOCKER_HOST=unix:///run/user/$UID/podman/podman.sock)
https://brandonrozek.com/blog/rootless-docker-compose-podman/
I do something similar with rclone and vultr's s3 service. I made an s3 remote in rclone and then a encryption layer remote on top of that.