Podman has plenty of problems. Rootless for example has super slow networking. Last time I checked it was not a solved problem.

For production workloads, you can use systemd socket activation to avoid most of the network issues. The caddy demo I've linked below explains more about the issues it would solve.

[0] https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/main/docs/tutorial...

[1] https://github.com/eriksjolund/podman-caddy-socket-activatio...