diff --git a/.forgejo/workflows/ci.yml b/.forgejo/workflows/ci.yml
index 8479da8..ae315ae 100644
--- a/.forgejo/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.forgejo/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-name: CI/CD Pipeline Simplified
+name: CI/CD Pipeline with Direct Podman Access
 
 on:
   push:
@@ -20,27 +20,20 @@ jobs:
       image: git.gcdo.org/devteam/sharenet/ci-node-podman@sha256:eb0d942bd9a8cc69c63eb9ccf3877703898d676d0268cf379defdcda7e55f37f
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-
-      - name: Debug container environment
+      
+      - name: Debug environment
         run: |
           echo "Current user: $(id)"
-          echo "Environment variables:"
-          env | sort
-          echo "Directory contents:"
-          ls -la /
+          echo "DOCKER_HOST: $DOCKER_HOST"
           ls -la /run/ || echo "No /run directory"
-          ls -la /run/user/ || echo "No /run/user directory"
-          echo "Testing Podman access:"
-          podman --version || echo "Podman not available"
-          which podman || echo "Podman not in PATH"
-      
-      - name: Verify Podman access
+          which docker || echo "Docker not found"
+          docker --version || echo "Docker command failed"
+
+      - name: Test Docker/Podman access
         run: |
-          echo "Checking Podman socket..."
-          ls -la /run/user/999/podman/
-          test -S /run/user/999/podman/podman.sock && echo "Socket exists" || echo "Socket missing"
-          podman --url unix:///run/user/999/podman/podman.sock info
-          podman --url unix:///run/user/999/podman/podman.sock ps
+          # Test using the Docker CLI with the socket
+          docker info || echo "Docker info failed"
+          docker ps || echo "Docker ps failed"
 
       - name: Verify pinned digests
         run: |
@@ -50,11 +43,11 @@ jobs:
           done
 
       - name: Create internal network
-        run: podman --url unix:///run/user/999/podman/podman.sock network create --internal integ-${{ env.RUN_ID }}
+        run: docker network create --internal integ-${{ env.RUN_ID }}
 
       - name: Start PostgreSQL
         run: |
-          podman --url unix:///run/user/999/podman/podman.sock run -d \
+          docker run -d \
             --name test-postgres-${{ env.RUN_ID }} \
             --network integ-${{ env.RUN_ID }} \
             -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=password \
@@ -65,14 +58,14 @@ jobs:
       - name: Wait for PostgreSQL
         run: |
           timeout 60 bash -c '
-            until podman --url unix:///run/user/999/podman/podman.sock exec test-postgres-${{ env.RUN_ID }} pg_isready -h 127.0.0.1 -p 5432 -U postgres; do
+            until docker exec test-postgres-${{ env.RUN_ID }} pg_isready -h 127.0.0.1 -p 5432 -U postgres; do
               sleep 1
             done
           '
 
       - name: Run backend tests
         run: |
-          podman --url unix:///run/user/999/podman/podman.sock run --rm \
+          docker run --rm \
             -v "$PWD":/workspace \
             -w /workspace \
             --network integ-${{ env.RUN_ID }} \
@@ -83,5 +76,5 @@ jobs:
       - name: Cleanup
         if: always()
         run: |
-          podman --url unix:///run/user/999/podman/podman.sock rm -f test-postgres-${{ env.RUN_ID }} 2>/dev/null || true
-          podman --url unix:///run/user/999/podman/podman.sock network rm integ-${{ env.RUN_ID }} 2>/dev/null || true
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+          docker rm -f test-postgres-${{ env.RUN_ID }} 2>/dev/null || true
+          docker network rm integ-${{ env.RUN_ID }} 2>/dev/null || true
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