[moondev]

Are you confusing podman with containerd perhaps?

Podman is designed to be a developer focused drop-in replacement for docker to use on one's workstation.

It's not possible to use it as a Kubernetes container runtime, there is no CRI for it to work. You can however run Kubernetes style "pods" locally from a pod manifest without a kube-apiserver which is pretty neat.

[KronisLV]

Yep, my bad! Post has been edited, I should stop posting in the evenings.

Most of the original points stand, except that Podman can run workloads described as Kubernetes YAML (or essentially compete with Rancher Desktop thanks to Podman Desktop), but isn't a runtime for Kubernetes like containerd.