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The Using Podman Containers for Regtest Bitcoin Development blog post has all the details on Podman, machines, images, and containers.

First, make sure you have Podman and just installed on your computer.

Then create a directory called podman somewhere on your machine and clone the repo:

mkdir ~/podman/
git clone https://github.com/thunderbiscuit/podman-regtest-infinity-pro.git

Make sure you have a podman machine enabled with sufficient resources.

# Create a machine called regtest
podman machine init --cpus 4 --memory 4096 --disk-size 20 regtest

Get into the container's directory and build the container. Note that you must specify a BITCOIN_VERSION and TARGET_ARCH to use the bitcoin core version you need using the --build-arg argument on the podman command.

cd regtest-in-a-pod/
podman machine start regtest
podman --connection regtest build --build-arg BITCOIN_VERSION=28.1 --build-arg TARGET_ARCH=x86_64-linux-gnu --tag localhost/regtest:v1.0.0 --file ./Containerfile
podman --connection regtest create --name RegtestBitcoinEnv --publish 18443:18443 --publish 18444:18444 --publish 3002:3002 --publish 3003:3003 --publish 60401:60401 localhost/regtest:v1.1.0

You're now ready to start using the container! See the Usage page for all the details.