Introducing Universal Base Image

When working on enterprise environments, many users and companies adopt RHEL as the operating system of choice to execute workloads reliably and securely. RHEL-based container images are available too, and they take advantage of the same package versioning as the OS release. All the security updates that are released for RHEL are immediately applied to OCI images, making them wealthy, secure images to build production-grade applications with.

Unfortunately, RHEL images are not publicly available without a Red Hat subscription. Users who have activated a valid subscription can use them freely on their RHEL systems and build custom images on top of them, but they are not freely redistributable without breaking the Red Hat enterprise agreement.

So, why worry? There are plenty of commonly used images that can replace them. This is true, but when it comes to reliability and security, many companies choose to stick to an enterprise-grade solution and...