Where is containers.conf on Windows?

[Ravencentric]

OS: Windows 11

❯ podman compose -v
>>>> Executing external compose provider "C:\\Users\\raven\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\WindowsApps\\docker-compose.exe". Please see podman-compose(1) for how to disable this message. <<<<

Docker Compose version v5.1.3

How do I actually turn this warning off? Docs say I can just set compose_warning_logs = false in containers.conf without mentioning where the containers.conf file will actually be placed in.

I've already tried putting it in:

• ~/.config/containers/containers.conf
• %APPDATA%/Roaming/containers/containers.conf

But neither of those got picked up

[Luap99]

it should be %APPDATA%/containers/containers.conf

[Ravencentric]

~
❯ cat $Env:APPDATA/containers/containers.conf
compose_warning_logs = false

~
❯ Get-Command podman

CommandType     Name                                               Version    Source
-----------     ----                                               -------    ------
Application     podman.exe                                         0.0.0.0    C:\Users\raven\AppData\Local\Programs\Podman\podman.exe



~
❯ podman compose -v
>>>> Executing external compose provider "C:\\Users\\raven\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\WindowsApps\\docker-compose.exe". Please see podman-compose(1) for how to disable this message. <<<<

Docker Compose version v5.1.3

That doesn't seem to be the case?

Some logs:

~
❯ podman --log-level trace compose -v
time="2026-04-23T22:16:46+05:30" level=info msg="C:\\Users\\raven\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Podman\\podman.exe filtering at log level trace"
time="2026-04-23T22:16:46+05:30" level=debug msg="Called compose.PersistentPreRunE(C:\\Users\\raven\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Podman\\podman.exe --log-level trace compose -v)"
time="2026-04-23T22:16:46+05:30" level=debug msg="SSH Ident Key \"C:\\\\Users\\\\raven\\\\.local\\\\share\\\\containers\\\\podman\\\\machine\\\\machine\" SHA256:afotGcesUld8ciYe8BlIdHMxEKwUz7CFRv7BFqLvcWo ssh-ed25519"
time="2026-04-23T22:16:47+05:30" level=debug msg="DoRequest Method: GET URI: http://d/v5.7.1/libpod/_ping"
time="2026-04-23T22:16:47+05:30" level=debug msg="Found compose provider \"C:\\\\Users\\\\raven\\\\AppData\\\\Local\\\\Microsoft\\\\WindowsApps\\\\docker-compose.exe\""
time="2026-04-23T22:16:47+05:30" level=debug msg="Executing compose provider (C:\\Users\\raven\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\WindowsApps\\docker-compose.exe -v) with additional env DOCKER_HOST=npipe:////./pipe/podman-machine-default DOCKER_BUILDKIT=0 DOCKER_CONFIG="
>>>> Executing external compose provider "C:\\Users\\raven\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\WindowsApps\\docker-compose.exe". Please see podman-compose(1) for how to disable this message. <<<<

Docker Compose version v5.1.3
time="2026-04-23T22:16:47+05:30" level=debug msg="Called compose.PersistentPostRunE(C:\\Users\\raven\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Podman\\podman.exe --log-level trace compose -v)"
time="2026-04-23T22:16:47+05:30" level=debug msg="Shutting down engines"

[Luap99]

That is not the correct containers.conf syntax https://github.com/containers/container-libs/blob/main/common/docs/containers.conf.5.md

[engine]
compose_warning_logs = false

should work I think

[Ravencentric]

That was it, thank you!