With the whole IBM thing going on, I bet CentOS 8 is going to take longer than usual to be released.
Quick question: how do I differentiate between freely available and subscription-only containers on the Red Hat Registry?
I'm also looking to know what packages are available in RHEL8 that are not available to UBI containers. I'm not able to find information as to what subset of the RHEL package universe is available to UBI containers. If you're aware of information on this I'd love to be pointed to it.
IBM has zero incentive to interfere with CentOS, it's the best advertising for RHEL they can get.
With the hassle (subscriptions, restrictions etc..) it isn't worth it.
I do wish RHEL would allow it for usage that doesn't make money, like personal servers.
You haven't been around a merger & acquisition process, I take it. It's usually like the scorpion and frog parable:
A scorpion asks a frog to carry it across a river. The frog hesitates, afraid of being stung by the scorpion, but the scorpion argues that if it did that, they would both drown. The frog considers this argument sensible and agrees to transport the scorpion. The scorpion climbs onto the frog's back and the frog begins to swim, but midway across the river, the scorpion stings the frog, dooming them both. The dying frog asks the scorpion why it stung the frog, to which the scorpion replies "I couldn't help it. It's in my nature."
(from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CentOS#Older_version_informati...
(Expand the table for older releases.)