[orthoxerox]

For example, your CI/CD agent is running in a container, and has to build and test containerized software. You can use something like buildah to build your app containers without a container runtime, but you want to run them to run the tests.

Ideally, you would want to do this while remaining platform-agnostic, so your agents will be able to start a container no matter where they are themselves: on bare metal, in Podman, in Docker, in k8s.

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I was about to say the same thing. We currently use a podman container, deploy it in Kubernetes, build container images with it for CI, push them and scale down the podman container.