Not entirely sure about the usecase, but podman itself integrates well with systemd, like creating services. But it feels like you want a full systemd OS in a c

Not entirely sure about the usecase, but podman itself integrates well with systemd, like creating services. But it feels like you want a full systemd OS in a container instead of a VM. Not the best practice. VM might better for this, though Podman can run systemd based services. And Podman in docker or podman in podman is not an issue. https://blog.while-true-do.io/podman-systemd-in-containers/ https://blog.while-true-do.io/podman-systemd-in-containers/ Podman machine starts a VM that is just a Fedora distro, with systemd and you can create multiple instances. This way you can run these system containers easily.