There's a real dearth of blog posts explaining how to use quadlets for the local dev experience, and actually most guides I've seen seem to recommend using podman/Docker compose. Do you use quadlets for local dev and testing?

Quadlets aren't what I'd personally use for local dev. They are good for running a local headless persistent service. So I wouldn't use it for your service-under-test but they can be a good fit for supporting dev tools like a local package registry, proxy or VPN gateway.

The docs you need for quadlets are basically here: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-systemd.uni...

The one gotcha I can think of not mentioned there is that if you run it as a non-root user and want it to run without logging in as that user, you need to: `sudo loginctl enable-linger $USER`.

If you don't vibe with quadlets, it's equally fine to do a normal systemd .service file with `ExecStart=podman run ...`, which quadlets are just convenience sugar for. I'd start there and then return to quadlets if/when you find that becomes too messy. Don't add new abstraction layers just because you can if they don't help.

If you have a more complex service consisting of multiple containers you want to schedule as a single unit, it's also totally fine to combine systemd and compose by having `ExecStart=podman compose up ...`.

Do you want it to run silently in the background with control over autorestarts and log to system journal? Quadlets/systemd.

Do you want to have multiple containers scheduled together (or just prefer it)? Compose.

Do you want to manually invoke it and have the output in a terminal by default? CLI run or compose.