<![CDATA[RedHat has had an Universal Base Image (UBI) since 2019.]]>RedHat has had an Universal Base Image (UBI) since 2019. Now they have announced their new base image, Project Hummingbird, but they are silent about how it differs from the existing UBI - Does anyone have any details?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/2b7b4c8c-f22c-496d-b5c8-24b1420ff915/redhat-has-had-an-universal-base-image-ubi-since-2019.RSS for NodeFri, 17 Apr 2026 14:21:41 GMTWed, 15 Apr 2026 14:38:19 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to RedHat has had an Universal Base Image (UBI) since 2019. on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:08:45 GMT]]>@imreFitos as far as I understand it, the UBIs are a bit more robust and made for OSes or server images.

Project hummingbird is, from Red Hat's website, "a minimal, trusted, and transparent zero-CVE foundation for building cloud-native applications"

Sounds like an attempt to break into the SaaS market by providing smaller developers with smaller, more secure images to build with.

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