[rhatdan]

Do you run with Docker daemon running in rootless mode? Does rancher default to rootless mode? I hear Docker can run in rootless mode but does anyone really run it that way. If I want to start a single container in my homedir, I need to start up multiple docker daemons (dockerd, containerd) to run and then they run forever even if I run in daemon mode. Or I can shut them down until I need to interact with the container again.

Have you tried running with Pods? Have you tried Quadlet? Have you tried to generate kube yaml from running pods and containers on your system? Have you used podman to generate pods and containers from existing kubernetes yaml files? Have you launched containers each in their own User Namespace with --userns=auto?