Would be nice to have a reproduction. When you say docker setup, I'm not sure if you were using the compose plugin for podman and the provided compose setup or some other invocation using only the docker container.

Either way, I'm going to assume that the issue you ran into has to do with the bind-mount. I just made some changes (to use volumes by default) and added documentation on how to run the k8s setup with podman: https://github.com/trailbaseio/trailbase/tree/main/deploy/k8s .

Does that address your issue?