For this guide you will need to have Home-brew installed. If you have not already done this run the following:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

Update Brew formulae before installing Podman

brew update

Install Podman via Home-brew

brew install podman

Initialise Podman

podman machine init

This creates and downloads the VM image

Start Podman

podman machine start