I got super lucky, someone created a restart policy for Podman just a week ago. It works without changing anything to my docker-compose.yml files, as long as the file states restart: always. Following Alpine’s Wiki to install and setup Podman followed by the instructions on this Github Repository and everything works quite well on Alpine Linux.

I’ll have to play around with Podman some more and give it time to see how it holds up, but so far it seems promising.