diff --git a/cmd/katenary/main.go b/cmd/katenary/main.go
index 413b1ad..c1b4c5b 100644
--- a/cmd/katenary/main.go
+++ b/cmd/katenary/main.go
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ func generateConvertCommand() *cobra.Command {
 	convertCmd.Flags().BoolVarP(&helmdepUpdate, "helm-update", "u", helmdepUpdate, "Update helm dependencies if helm is installed")
 	convertCmd.Flags().StringSliceVarP(&profiles, "profile", "p", profiles, "Specify the profiles to use")
 	convertCmd.Flags().StringVarP(&outputDir, "output-dir", "o", outputDir, "Specify the output directory")
-	convertCmd.Flags().StringSliceVarP(&dockerComposeFile, "compose-file", "c", cli.DefaultFileNames, "Specify an alternate compose files - can be specified multiple times or use coma to separate them")
+	convertCmd.Flags().StringSliceVarP(&dockerComposeFile, "compose-file", "c", cli.DefaultFileNames, "Specify an alternate compose files - can be specified multiple times or use coma to separate them.\nNote that overides files are also used whatever the files you specify here.\nThe overides files are:\n"+strings.Join(cli.DefaultOverrideFileNames, ", \n")+"\n")
 	convertCmd.Flags().StringVarP(&givenAppVersion, "app-version", "a", "", "Specify the app version (in Chart.yaml)")
 	convertCmd.Flags().StringVarP(&chartVersion, "chart-version", "v", chartVersion, "Specify the chart version (in Chart.yaml)")
 	return convertCmd
diff --git a/parser/main.go b/parser/main.go
index 0507a9c..fe25920 100644
--- a/parser/main.go
+++ b/parser/main.go
@@ -6,10 +6,23 @@ import (
 	"github.com/compose-spec/compose-go/types"
 )
 
+func init() {
+	// prepend compose.katenary.yaml to the list of default override file names
+	cli.DefaultOverrideFileNames = append([]string{
+		"compose.katenary.yml",
+		"compose.katenary.yaml",
+	}, cli.DefaultOverrideFileNames...)
+	cli.DefaultOverrideFileNames = append(cli.DefaultOverrideFileNames,
+		[]string{
+			"podman-compose.katenary.yml",
+			"podman-compose.katenary.yaml",
+			"podman-compose.yml",
+			"podman-compose.yaml",
+		}...)
+}
+
 // Parse compose files and return a project. The project is parsed with dotenv, osenv and profiles.
 func Parse(profiles []string, dockerComposeFile ...string) (*types.Project, error) {
-	cli.DefaultOverrideFileNames = append(cli.DefaultOverrideFileNames, "compose.katenary.yaml")
-
 	if len(dockerComposeFile) == 0 {
 		cli.DefaultOverrideFileNames = append(cli.DefaultOverrideFileNames, dockerComposeFile...)
 	}