One colleague that switched to Podman recently asked me if it is possible to use it with Visual Studio Code’s Docker extension.
Out of the box it did not detect the presence of Podman’s Socket, which by the way, is compatible with the Docker CLI and hence also compatible with VS Code.
We solved this configuring the DOCKER_HOST variable in the extension.
I will provide a script to automate the config in macOS, but you can do the same manually on other systems as it will also work: