Installing podman on macOS is straightforward using Homebrew. Here are the steps to get it up and running:

brew install podman

Create a Podman machine to run containers:

podman machine init --cpus 4 --memory 8192

Disk defaults to 100GB, you can change it with --disk-size option.

Start the Podman machine:

podman machine start

To verify that Podman is running correctly, you can check the status of the machine:

podman machine info

To test amd64 architecture compatibility, you can run a simple container:

podman run --arch amd64 -it rockylinux:9 bash