I’ve tried to use Podman in a “normie” homelab - Macs and Linux - and my experience is that it’s simple until it isn’t, and the layers of abstraction and documentation make it difficult to reason about what’s wrong. I found myself combing through Redhat forums, for an issue on a Mac, and it was unclear which components were relevant for my deployment.
I never did solve it, and ended up buying OrbStack.