I've done this as well and I really wouldn't recommend it, especially if you intend to use rootless podman.<p>As the author notes, doing this with rootless podman is a pain in the ass. If you want the containers to start with the system, then you have to have a system target which a user service waits for. The user service then has to reference each of the container quadlets in order to start them. It's fiddly and adds new failure points.<p>Even if you're not using rootless, the quadlets have to be run through a script which translates them systemd units, so it's awkward to use with declarative config management. Quadlet syntax and systemd syntax are also similar enough to be confusing at times.<p>It might be fine if you're building host images (eg: immutable dev env VMs). I won't be using this in production though, whether that's at work or in the homelab.