Some context here - https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2019/04/24/how-to-run-systemd-in-a-container
With Docker you need to mount the host volume -v /sys/fs/cgroup:/sys/fs/cgroup:ro
However this is not needed for podman
If Kubernetes cluster is still using Docker, this will not work in pod wihtout these mounts; but if using Containerd directly (kubelet--> Containerd-->runc) I am not sure