Red Hat Universal Base Image

Re:Red Hat Universal Base Image by zokier on Thursday May 09, 2019 @02:01PM (#19870553)

It is bit surprising that they do not offer Java UBI image, considering that RH is one of the biggest Java vendors. Instead they are offering dotnet images of all things.

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Re:Red Hat Universal Base Image by ChuckMcM on Thursday May 09, 2019 @03:34PM (#19871485)

Unless you consider ancillary information like, IBM owns Redhat and hates Oracle, and Oracle has decided to extract money for anything Java + Enterprise, and UBI is targeted for Enterprise customers.

When you consider that you realize that adding a Java UBI image would just set them up for a fight with Oracle and delay their ability to get moving with UBI.

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Re:Red Hat Universal Base Image by soneil on Thursday May 09, 2019 @05:10PM (#19872458)

If you consider news like https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/leadership-op...

.. it doesn't seem they're hugely afraid of openjdk

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Re:Red Hat Universal Base Image by justincormack on Thursday May 09, 2019 @04:37PM (#19872169)

IBM does not yet own RedHat, the deal will close in another couple of months. IBM cannot influence anything RedHat does yet.

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Re:Red Hat Universal Base Image by ChuckMcM on Thursday May 09, 2019 @05:05PM (#19872418)

I actually see this as another reason to stay below the 'lawsuit radar.' A quick search doesn't seem to turn up anything that looks like a showstopper for the acquisition so presumably while it isn't "done" it is likely to complete, would you agree?

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Re:Red Hat Universal Base Image by xorcist on Thursday May 09, 2019 @04:20PM (#19871995)

Red Hat already distributes Java in the form of openjdk. Surely the packaging format is irrelevant?

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Re:Red Hat Universal Base Image by pjmlp on Thursday May 09, 2019 @05:20PM (#19872551)

Ah, I understand that former Sun employees have a sword to fight with Oracle, but no one else, besides a timid IBM offer, was that interested into buying Sun assets.

Additionally IBM, Red-Hat and Oracle, collaborate on OpenJDK development and are the few set of companies that actually contribute new language features, with Oracle still having like 90% of contributions.

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Re:Red Hat Universal Base Image by chrisseaton on Thursday May 09, 2019 @04:18PM (#19871971)

IBM have their own JVM implementation - they could ship that. Or ship their own build of the OpenJDK like many people do.

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Re:Red Hat Universal Base Image by fatherlinnux on Thursday May 09, 2019 @04:27PM (#19872077)

We are working on it. We provide the openjdk package in UBI now, you can build a container image from the base. I plan on publishing a blog entry soon, explaining how. Also, we are working on releasing a pre-built image.

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Re:Red Hat Universal Base Image by derkoe on Thursday May 09, 2019 @03:31PM (#19871451)

Yes that's kind of strange. That's why I've created one for OpenJDK 8 and 11 yesterday https://hub.docker.com/r/ubi8/openjdk

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Re:Red Hat Universal Base Image by bmaupin on Friday May 10, 2019 @12:48PM (#19879615)

Java is available for installation from the base UBI image:

  $ docker run --rm registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/ubi yum search openjdk
  java-11-openjdk.x86_64 : OpenJDK Runtime Environment 11
  java-1.8.0-openjdk.x86_64 : OpenJDK Runtime Environment 8
  java-11-openjdk-devel.x86_64 : OpenJDK Development Environment 11
  java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel.x86_64 : OpenJDK Development Environment 8

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Re:Red Hat Universal Base Image by jmtd on Friday May 10, 2019 @12:04PM (#19879071)

openjdk 11 rhel8 image for openshift shipped yesterday

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