Containers within the same pod can certainly communicate with each other without root? I'm running that setup right now for my graylog container and it's mongo and elastic search dependencies
Within the same pod sure, they share the same netns. I was talking about individual container comms.
With rootless podman they use slirp4netns and all get the same IP, with rootful podman or Docker a bridge network is established so that containers that aren't in the same pod can communicate with each other.
With rootless podman they use slirp4netns and all get the same IP, with rootful podman or Docker a bridge network is established so that containers that aren't in the same pod can communicate with each other.