December 2025 monthly summary for containers/podman-compose. This period focused on improving cross-environment reliability of the Podman orchestration flow. Key change implemented: update the Podman binary path in podman_compose.py to '/usr/bin/env' to achieve consistent, environment-agnostic execution across diverse environments and CI pipelines. This change reduces environment-specific failures and simplifies adoption in varied deployment scenarios, contributing to a smoother developer experience and lower support overhead. Major bugs fixed: Podman binary path resolution was corrected to prevent environment-specific invocation issues. Overall impact and accomplishments: Enhanced portability and reliability of podman-compose across development, CI, and production environments; smoother onboarding for contributors and customers; reduced maintenance and troubleshooting time. Technologies/skills demonstrated: Python scripting, environment-aware path handling with /usr/bin/env, targeted code changes with minimal surface area, clear commit hygiene.