[CentOS-devel] minimal CentOS 8 or 9 stream container images

Wed Jan 5 16:27:47 UTC 2022
Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>

On Wed, Jan 5, 2022 at 11:17 AM Ken Dreyer <kdreyer at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Is there a 8stream-minimal or 9stream-minimal image that uses microdnf?
>
> We're searching for a smaller base image for the Ceph project, and
> we'd like to use an image similar to
> https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/ubi8/ubi-minimal/5c359a62bed8bd75a2c3fba8
> , but the ubi8 repos don't have all the packages we need.
>
> Maybe we could use the Stream 8 .repo files with ubi8-minimal as a
> workaround? But what should we do for el9?

Use the ubi9-beta/ubi-minimal image pointing to the CentOS Stream 9 repos.

https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/ubi9-beta/ubi-minimal/60abfb3202b386eb7ce96364

josh