Somewhat unrelated (but maybe it's actually related). I've been trying to setup a local development environment for Kubernetes on mac. On mac, docker does not allow for connecting directly to the pods, you need to either setup a tunnel or service. The problem for my use case is that each pod could have a different port and local address and a load balancer does not make sense for what I'm building which requires connecting directly to a specific pod. Does Podman solve this problem? I think the problem is dockerd on mac. As of now, I just have a completely separate environment in the cloud that I run test on but it's very inefficient.

I tried switching to nerdctl and containerd but the problem is that I have existing workflows that make use of docker_init files and nerdctl breaks those.