Red Hat is offering a few official docker images for RHEL8. One can now use or build images based on the latest operating system from Red Hat. Here is how to do it in 3 simple steps
Step 1: Create a dockerfile
FROM registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/ubi USER root LABEL maintainer="John Doe" # Disable RHSM RUN sed -i -e 's/^\(enabled\).*/\1=0/g' /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/subscription-manager.conf # Start bash ENTRYPOINT ["/usr/bin/bash"]
Step 2: Build an image
▶ docker build -t rhel8-ubi .
Step 3: Run the image
▶ docker run -it --name rhel8 3e7fc515a894 bash-4.4# cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.0 (Ootpa)
The UBI images get packages from the UBI yum repositories. They do not contain all packages like a full-blown OS. To learn more about the UBI images, please go to this link.
