services: app: image: nopush/podman-compose-test command: ["/bin/busybox", "sh", "-c", "env | grep ZZVAR3"] # 'env_file:' section is not used, so .env file is searched in the same directory as compose.yml # file environment: # this is short syntax: podman-compose takes only this variable value from '.env' file and # sends it to container environment - ZZVAR3