Neat project, but what does this do differently than docker compose with the --host flag? https://docs.docker.com/reference/cli/docker/#host

It uploads your whole local docker context, source code and all, builds the image on the remote server and up's the container(s) all with a single command. I use this all the time when deploying simple services to avoid all of the complexity of registries etc.

    docker -H ssh://remote compose up -d

Yeah, its the same underlying functionality that Depot, Docker Cloud Build and also Offload uses under the hood to switch the context to a remote host: https://www.docker.com/products/docker-offload/

What!?!? This is a thing? How did I not know about this. Thanks for the share!

To me, it looks like this new project is aimed more at being able to develop remotely and share your localhost:3000 env instead of getting a real production box up. Bidi sync etc... hints at that, it's like having a 2-interface dev env.

Is there a single line Podman alternative?

Wow - never seen that before.

Probably pretty similar except you get to just write "pooshit" instead.