diff --git a/testing/matrix-sdk-integration-testing/README.md b/testing/matrix-sdk-integration-testing/README.md
index a1233f2bd..8a03072ce 100644
--- a/testing/matrix-sdk-integration-testing/README.md
+++ b/testing/matrix-sdk-integration-testing/README.md
@@ -3,13 +3,15 @@
 ## Requirements
 
 This requires a synapse backend with a ci patched configuration. You can easily get
-it up and running with `docker-compose` via:
+it up and running with `docker compose` via:
 
 ```sh
-docker-compose -f assets/docker-compose.yml up -d
-docker-compose -f assets/docker-compose.yml logs --tail 100 -f
+docker compose -f assets/docker-compose.yml up -d
+docker compose -f assets/docker-compose.yml logs --tail 100 -f
 ```
 
+Note that this works also with `podman compose`.
+
 **Patches**
 You can see the patches we do to configuration (namely activate registration and
 resetting rate limits), check out what `assets/ci-start.sh` changes.
@@ -20,13 +22,12 @@ The integration tests can be run with `cargo test` or `cargo nextest run`.
 
 The integration tests expect the environment variables `HOMESERVER_URL` to be the HTTP URL to
 access the synapse server and `HOMESERVER_DOMAIN` to be set to the domain configured in
-that server. If you are using the provided `docker-compose`, the default will be fine.
+that server. If you are using the provided `docker-compose.yml`, the default will be fine.
 
 ## Maintenance
 
-To drop the database of your docker-compose run:
+To drop the database of your docker compose run:
 
 ```bash
-docker-compose -f assets/docker-compose.yml stop
-rm -rf ./assets/data
+docker compose -f assets/docker-compose.yml down --volumes
 ```
diff --git a/testing/matrix-sdk-integration-testing/assets/docker-compose.yml b/testing/matrix-sdk-integration-testing/assets/docker-compose.yml
index 81a630ace..4600d68ec 100644
--- a/testing/matrix-sdk-integration-testing/assets/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/testing/matrix-sdk-integration-testing/assets/docker-compose.yml
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-version: '3'
-
 services:
 
   synapse:
@@ -8,7 +6,7 @@ services:
     healthcheck:
       disable: true
     volumes:
-      - ./data/synapse:/data
+      - synapse:/data
     ports:
       - 8228:8008/tcp
 
@@ -24,16 +22,14 @@ services:
       timeout: 5s
       retries: 5
     volumes:
-      - ./data/db:/var/lib/postgresql/data
+      - db:/var/lib/postgresql/data
 
   sliding-sync-proxy:
     image: ghcr.io/matrix-org/sliding-sync:v0.99.11
     depends_on:
+      synapse:
       postgres:
         condition: service_healthy
-    links:
-      - synapse
-      - postgres
     environment:
       SYNCV3_SERVER: http://synapse:8008
       SYNCV3_SECRET: SUPER_SECRET
@@ -41,3 +37,7 @@ services:
       SYNCV3_DB: "user=postgres password=postgres dbname=syncv3 sslmode=disable host=postgres"
     ports:
       - 8338:8338
+
+volumes:
+  synapse:
+  db: