Is there anything new on how to use docker compose in pytest? I see these issues: https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/16362, and https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/17860, but it seems like there hasn't been any work on them in a while. This feature is pretty blocking for us to convert our testing suite over to Pants. I just want to be able to use the pytest docker plugin

Those issues would be more about pants coordinating the docker daemons, whereas it sounds like you're happy for pytest itself to spin up containers? Have you tried adding the pytest plugin https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/python-test-goal#pytest-version-and-plugins ? If so, what's the behaviour and how is it wrong?