Containers with systemd as an init process are considered first-class citizen by the Podman ecosystem (the base images are named accordingly: e.g, ubi10-init vs ubi10)

My current production systems are running Ubuntu 22.04, and there is no official images with systemd for them in Podman. So it does feel like second class citizen.

On another hand, if ubi’s work fine — that means there should be no technical limitation to keep Ubuntu working.

I’ll keep playing with Podman for now, but will switch to Incus if that will fail