Podman with QEMU virtualization on Mac comes with a big performance-penalty for bind-mounts, see containers/podman#16994 .
As of 25.1.24, virtualization with Apple Hypervisor is available with the Podman Desktop pre-release 1.7.3
This Gist is supposed to keep track of how to install it and test it with Docker Compose and Testcontainers.
Beware that as of 26.1.24, containers/podman#21288 means that a reboot of the host (e.g. laptop) will invalidate the applehv machine, and the only known workaround is to delete and recreate it! The fix is already merged into main, but hasn't made it into 4.9.0