I ditched Docker for Podman

Podman networking is extremely unreliable. Our company made an effort to switch to get away from Docker Enterprise. We had to kill the effort because multiple people had random disconnects and packet drops with a range of services including K8S, Kafka, and even basic applications, both internal and in host network.

```

> kubectl port-forward svc/argocd-server -n argocd 8080:443

Forwarding from 127.0.0.1:8080 -> 8080

Forwarding from [::1]:8080 -> 8080

Handling connection for 8080

Handling connection for 8080

Handling connection for 8080

E0815 09:12:51.276801 27142 portforward.go:413] an error occurred forwarding 8080 -> 8080: error forwarding port 8080 to pod 87b32b48e6c729565b35ea0cefe9e25d8f0211cbefc0b63579e87a759d14c375, uid : failed to execute portforward in network namespace "/var/run/netns/cni-719d3bfa-0220-e841-bd35-fe159b48f11c": failed to connect to localhost:8080 inside namespace "87b32b48e6c729565b35ea0cefe9e25d8f0211cbefc0b63579e87a759d14c375", IPv4: dial tcp4 127.0.0.1:8080: connect: connection refused IPv6 dial tcp6 [::1]:8080: connect: connection refused

error: lost connection to pod

```

People had other issues also. It looks nice and I would love to use it, but it just currently isn't mature/stable enough.

I've had similar issues using kubectl to access some tools that made a lot of requests (polling, which is something argocd does I believe).

Setting this environment variable helped a lot: KUBECTL_PORT_FORWARD_WEBSOCKETS=true

Note: because Google's quality is falling you won't be able to find this variable using their search, but you can read about it by searching Bing or asking an LLM.