I've been using this method on a few servers where I don't want to run Kubernetes and I really like it. It feels like native support for docker-like containers in Linux, instead of a foreign concept that needs it's own management/logging. This is the killer feature of Podman, it doesn't make sense for me to use Docker in prod.
It's not really the same experience without pre-built images. OCI images and registries are very useful parts of running production services in containers.
