One problem in particular is that, with podman, short image names such as elastic/elasticsearch won’t use the docker.io registry by default, but will instead trigger a prompt asking the user to select a registry. And in the case of docker-maven-plugin I’m not even sure this prompt is displayed; in fact I don’t know what happens but it gets stuck (perhaps downloading, though? IDK).

In any case, let’s be explicit that we expect these images to come from docker.io, and let’s fix any other problem.