I brute forced playing through the options of podman to try to work with pods on a standalone system using podman (i.e. without kubernetes)

podman_pod_example.sh

# Creates new pod named `test` with `running` status with `infra` container only
sudo podman pod create --name test

# Pauses the named pod and all containers in the pod
sudo podman pod pause test

# Unpauses the named pod and all containers in the pod
sudo podman pod unpause test

# Show all pods and their status
sudo podman pod ps

# Show all running processes across all containers in a pod
sudo podman pod top test

# Execute a command in a container assigned to a pod, detached from terminal
# Executes within the pod immediately, but will execute again if stopped once
# the pod is started
sudo podman run --pod test -d  registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora:latest /usr/bin/sleep infinity

# Creates container in pod but does not execute until pod is started
sudo podman create --pod test  --name bash4  registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora:latest /usr/bin/date

# Start a pod and all its containers
sudo podman pod start test

# Stop a pod and all its containers
sudo podman pod stop test

# Show live stats of all containers in running pods and their resource usage
sudo podman pod stats

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## Working example 

sudo podman pod create --name example
sudo podman create --pod example --name redis --hostname redis redis:alpine

sudo podman pod start example
sudo podman run -ti --pod example registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora:latest
# Redis is now listening and available in the fedora container on 127.0.0.1:6379
# By default all containers within a pod share the same network namespace,
# meaning anything listening on loopback is available across all containers in
# the pod

# I tested this with:
pip3 install aredis
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NoneGG/aredis/master/examples/keys.py
# Should exit with status 0
python3 keys.py && echo $?

# Exit container
exit

# Stop the pod
sudo podman pod stop example

# Remove all containers in a pod
sudo podman rm $(sudo podman pod inspect example | jq -r '.Containers[] | .id')

# Remove the pod
sudo podman pod rm example