i too am on the docker to podman quadlet train! i switched from a ubuntu server running docker to a pretty stock ucore server with podman.
i put all my containers in a podman network. im using nginx proxy manager with inside ports 80, 81, and 443 mapped to 9080, 9081, and 9443 to keep the container rootless. i have the firewall configured witn port forwarding 80, 81, and 443 back to 9080, 9081, and 9443.
ucore is from the universal blue project and based on fedora’s coreos, so it comes with firewalld instead of ufw.
ah you may need to make sure the pods are added to the network. i specified the network in the .pod quadlet.
im kinda digging the podman network setup as I dont have to map a bunch of port 80s to ports on the host and keep track of them. i can just tell the proxy whatever service is running on http://{container_name}:80. that is, after I found out I needed to make a new podman network because the default “podman” network doesn’t do DNS lol.