diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci-podman.yml b/.github/workflows/ci-podman.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..65a3385c8a5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci-podman.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+name: Podman pipeline
+
+on: [push, pull_request]
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        go-version: [1.14.x, 1.15.x, 1.16.x, 1.17.x, 1.x]
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Set up Go 1.x
+        uses: actions/setup-go@v3
+        with:
+          go-version: ${{ matrix.go-version }}
+        id: go
+
+      - name: Check out code into the Go module directory
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+
+      - name: modVerify
+        run: go mod verify
+
+      - name: modTidy
+        run: go mod tidy
+
+      - name: ensure compilation
+        env:
+          GOOS: linux
+        run: go build
+
+      - name: Enable systemd user process
+        run: |
+          loginctl enable-linger $(whoami)
+          sleep 1
+
+      - name: Set XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
+        run: echo "XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/$UID" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+
+      - name: Install Podman
+        run: |
+          set -x
+          sudo apt-get remove -y podman docker-ce docker docker-engine docker.io containerd runc ||:
+          curl -L https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/kubic:/libcontainers:/stable/xUbuntu_$( lsb_release -rs )/Release.key | sudo apt-key add -
+          echo  "deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/kubic:/libcontainers:/stable/xUbuntu_$( lsb_release -rs )/ /" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/podman.list /dev/null
+          sudo apt-get update
+          sudo apt-get install -y podman
+          sudo systemctl start podman
+          systemctl --user enable --now podman.socket
+          systemctl --user status podman.socket
+          podman info
+
+      - name: Set DOCKER_HOST
+        run: echo "DOCKER_HOST=unix:///$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/podman/podman.sock" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+
+      - name: gotestsum
+        # only run tests on linux, there are a number of things that won't allow the tests to run on anything else
+        # many (maybe, all?) images used can only be build on Linux, they don't have Windows in their manifest, and
+        # we can't put Windows Server in "Linux Mode" in Github actions
+        # another, host mode is only available on Linux, and we have tests around that, do we skip them?
+        run: go run gotest.tools/gotestsum --format short-verbose -- -coverprofile=cover.txt ./...
+        continue-on-error: true
+
+        # only report code coverage on linux
+      - name: Upload coverage report
+        uses: codecov/codecov-action@v2
+        with:
+          files: ./cover.txt
+          name: testcontainers-podman-go-${{ matrix.go-version }}
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diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 9a64969ea6d..85ede5077d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@ on: [push, pull_request]
 
 jobs:
   static-analysis:
-    runs-on: [ubuntu-latest]
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
 
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
       - name: Run ShellCheck
         run: |
           shellcheck scripts/*.sh
@@ -24,13 +24,13 @@ jobs:
     steps:
 
       - name: Set up Go 1.x
-        uses: actions/setup-go@v2
+        uses: actions/setup-go@v3
         with:
           go-version: ${{ matrix.go-version }}
         id: go
 
       - name: Check out code into the Go module directory
-        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
 
       - name: modVerify
         run: go mod verify
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ jobs:
         # only report code coverage on linux
       - name: Upload coverage report
         if: ${{ matrix.platform == 'ubuntu-latest' }}
-        uses: codecov/codecov-action@v1
+        uses: codecov/codecov-action@v2
         with:
-          file: ./cover.txt
+          files: ./cover.txt
           name: testcontainers-go-${{ matrix.go-version }}