I'm looking for best practices with Red Hat's sponsored container images: Universal Base Image, when we need to deploy application using this containers.
A lot of third party apps requires packages from AppStream, and there's clearly a gap between what is shipped in RHEL's AppStream and ubi-8-appstream
.
We can use the package harfbuzz
as an example, on a running RHEL 8.5 we have the development packages available:
harfbuzz-1.7.5-3.el8.x86_64
harfbuzz-icu-1.7.5-3.el8.x86_64
harfbuzz-devel-1.7.5-3.el8.x86_64
But with ubi-8-appstream
only the runtime package is available, as can be seen directly on its repo.
In that situation what is the right way to get the development packages? Adding RHEL's AppStream doesn't seems to be a good idea and this will also raise subscription-manager
issues.
What am I missing here?
libaio-devel
and they redhat folks said: "Today, UBI is really targeted towards cloud native, application developers working with languages like Java, Node.js, Golang, .Net, Perl, Python, Ruby, and PHP. Currently, this request does not fall within the currently approved use cases for inclusion in UBI."