Honestly with the hell I'm going through just trying to get Podman to run properly on macos, I can't imagine trusting the Podman people with a production deployment. I was not particularly impressed with the Docker tooling, but Podman has been even worse. This is a not-remotely exhaustive list of things I've run into in the last 24 hours:

* Podman fails to build a 16GB container image (after 30 minutes of downloading dependencies) despite having 90GB free out of a 200GB podman virtual machine

* Podman machine will, for reasons I don't understand, create a filesystem in a block device with wildly different sizes, and it seems like it's just random

* Pushing podman images to a container image registry via the Podman Desktop UI gives no indication that it's doing anything or even recognized the "push image" click, a success or error notification _might_ appear several or tens of minutes later or possibly not at all

* Starting a podman machine might work, but it fails ~75% of the time with not-particularly-exotic options (a bunch of ram and disk) and very cryptic error messages, frequently telling me to file bug tickets (I have)

* Podman Desktop won't let me create a podman machine with more than 44GB of disk, but the podman machine CLI won't let me create a machine with fewer than 100GB (IIRC--it's some number larger than 44, in any case)

Apart from the container image being absurdly large (Python developers love massive packages, I guess), I'm not doing anything exotic.