Podman will run as root or rootless mode, depending on how you want to run your container. Each user on your system can run containers in their home dir, or if

Podman will run as root or rootless mode, depending on how you want to run your container. Each user on your system can run containers in their home dir, or if you need extra privileges you can run the containers as root. We have found very few Images at docker.io or quay.io that require podman to run as root to run them. Usually the issue is binding to a port < 1024, but even that can be handled with a sysctl.