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Many teams use both: Docker for runtime management and Buildah for secure, rootless image building in CI/CD pipelines."},{"question":"Does Buildah support Docker Compose?","answer":"No. Docker Compose requires Docker daemon for orchestration. Buildah is a build-only tool and doesn't execute containers. For Buildah users, Podman Compose provides equivalent multi-container orchestration, though it lacks some Docker Compose v3 features."},{"question":"What's the performance difference for image builds?","answer":"Buildah is 20-30% faster on incremental builds (average 29 seconds vs Docker's 42 seconds for 100-layer images) due to optimized layer caching. However, for initial full builds, differences are negligible. 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