I'll help you troubleshoot the localhost resolution issue in your Kind cluster on Podman. Let me search for the most current information about this specific setup.
Based on my research, this is a known issue with Podman on Linux. The host.containers.internal and host.docker.internal entries are not being reliably added to /etc/hosts in Kind clusters. Here are the main solutions:
The issue is often related to Podman's network backend. Try changing from pasta to slirp4netns:
Edit your ~/.config/containers/containers.conf file: