What a sham. Very few packages are available in the yum repos from the UBI unless one is a RH customer. This will be a nonstarter unless anyone can install any package from the RHEL collection by default.
But isn't that the point? This is intended for RHEL users who previously had trouble shipping Docker images based on RHEL that Red Hat would provide support for. Not so much for non-RHEL users.
It will also be attractive for ISVs who want to partner with Red Hat.
Disclosure: I work for Pivotal, we compete with Red Hat in a number of areas.
If there is a particular package you need in UBI, we would be happy to evaluate it. Please file a BZ under RHEL 7 or 8 under the ubi-* Product Component at http://bugzilla.redhat.com
Red Hat doesn't necessarily care about adoption unless it leads to subscription revenue. It's easy enough to switch between CentOS and Red Hat. At some point I care enough about enterprise support and Red Hat's add-ons to make that switch and pay for it. And if I don't, Red Hat doesn't care. I really don't understand this pressure for companies to just literally give stuff away. It's hard enough convincing corporate leadership that free-as-in-libre software is a good thing. If people just complain when it's also not free-as-in-gratis, the community is shooting itself in the foot.
jacques_chester|6 years ago
It will also be attractive for ISVs who want to partner with Red Hat.
Disclosure: I work for Pivotal, we compete with Red Hat in a number of areas.
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KillerDiller|6 years ago
> FROM centos:8