Developer Images

January 8, 2026 · View on GitHub

Developer Images

Containers images with tools for developers 👨‍💻👩‍💻

Developer Base Image

Red Hat Universal Base Image (UBI) based images

Available versions:

UBI 9: quay.io/devfile/base-developer-image:ubi9-latest
UBI 10: quay.io/devfile/base-developer-image:ubi10-latest

Run the following commands to test with Docker:

UBI 9:

$ docker run -ti --rm \
       quay.io/devfile/base-developer-image:ubi9-latest \
       bash

UBI 10:

$ docker run -ti --rm \
       quay.io/devfile/base-developer-image:ubi10-latest \
       bash

Included Development Tools

Tool	ubi9 based image	ubi10 based image
`bash`	`bash`	`bash`
`bat`	`<gh releases>`	`<gh releases>`
`buildah`	`buildah`	`buildah`
`curl`	`curl`	`curl`
`ps`	`ps`	`ps`
`diff`	`diffutils`	`diffutils`
`emacs`	`NOT AVAILABLE (fedora only)`	`NOT AVAILABLE (fedora only)`
`fish`	`NOT AVAILABLE (fedora only)`	`NOT AVAILABLE (fedora only)`
`gh`	`<gh releases>`	`<gh releases>`
`git`	`git`	`git`
`git-lfs`	`git-lfs`	`git-lfs`
`ip`	`iproute`	`iproute`
`jq`	`jq`	`jq`
`htop`	`NOT AVAILABLE (fedora only)`	`NOT AVAILABLE (fedora only)`
`kubedock`	`<gh releases>`	`<gh releases>`
`less`	`less`	`less`
`lsof`	`lsof`	`lsof`
`man`	`man`	`man`
`nano`	`nano`	`nano`
`netcat`	`NOT AVAILABLE`	`NOT AVAILABLE`
`netstat`	`net-tools`	`net-tools`
`openssh-client`	`openssh-clients`	`openssh-clients`
`podman`	`podman`	`podman`
`7z`	`p7zip-plugins`	`p7zip-plugins`
`ripgrep`	`<gh releases>`	`<gh releases>`
`rsync`	`rsync`	`rsync`
`scp`	`openssh-clients`	`openssh-clients`
`screen`	`NOT AVAILABLE`	`NOT AVAILABLE`
`sed`	`sed`	`sed`
`shasum`	`perl-Digest-SHA`	`perl-Digest-SHA`
`socat`	`socat`	`socat`
`sudo`	`sudo`	`sudo`
`ss`	`NOT AVAILABLE`	`NOT AVAILABLE`
`ssl-cert`	`NOT AVAILABLE`	`NOT AVAILABLE`
`stow`	`stow`	`stow`
`tail`	`<built in>`	`<built in>`
`tar`	`tar`	`tar`
`time`	`time`	`time`
`tldr`	`NOT AVAILABLE (fedora only)`	`NOT AVAILABLE (fedora only)`
`tmux`	`NOT AVAILABLE (fedora only)`	`NOT AVAILABLE (fedora only)`
`vim`	`vim`	`vim`
`wget`	`wget`	`wget`
`zip`	`zip`	`zip`
`zsh`	`NOT AVAILABLE (fedora only)`	`NOT AVAILABLE (fedora only)`
TOTAL SIZE	800MB (255MB compressed)	789MB (256MB compressed)

When extending the base image, source kubedock_setup should be called in the new image's entrypoint to set up kubedock support. This sets up a wrapper for podman to use kubedock for the following podman commands if the KUBEDOCK_ENABLED env variable is set to true:

podman run
podman ps
podman exec
podman cp
podman logs
podman inspect
podman kill
podman rm
podman wait
podman stop
podman start

An example is available in the Universal Developer Image dockerfile.

Developer Universal Image

UBI 9 based image

Image: quay.io/devfile/universal-developer-image:ubi9-latest

Test:

docker run -ti --rm quay.io/devfile/universal-developer-image:ubi9-latest bash

Included Development Tools:

Tool or language	ubi9 based image
--------JAVA---------	-------------------------------------
`sdk`	`<https://get.sdkman.io>`
`java`	`<8.0.432-tem via sdkman>`
`java`	`<11.0.25-tem via sdkman>`
`java`	`<17.0.13-tem via sdkman>/default`
`java`	`<21.0.5-tem via sdkman>`
`maven`	`<via sdkman>`
`gradle`	`<via sdkman>`
`mandrel`	`<22.1.2.r21-mandrel via sdkman>`
`jbang`	`<via sdkman>`
--------SCALA--------	-------------------------------------
`cs`	`<https://get-coursier.io/>`
`sbt`	`<sbt launch script>`
`mill`	`<mill launch script>`
--------C/CPP--------	-------------------------------------
`clang`	`clang`
`clangd`	`llvm-toolset`
`gdb`	`gdb`
--------PHP----------	-------------------------------------
`php`	`php`
`composer`	`https://getcomposer.org/`
`xdebug`	`pecl`
-------NODEJS--------	-------------------------------------
`nodejs`	`nodejs`
`npm`	`npm`
`yarn`	`<via npm>`
--------GO-----------	-------------------------------------
`go`	`go-toolset`
`gopls`	`golang.org/x/tools/gopls v0.21.0`
--------.NET---------	-------------------------------------
`dotnet`	`dotnet-sdk-8.0`
------PYTHON---------	-------------------------------------
`python`	`python3.11`
`setuptools`	`python3.11-setuptools`
`pip`	`python3.11-pip`
`pylint`	`<via pip>`
`yq`	`<via pip>`
--------RUST---------	-------------------------------------
`rustup`	`<sh.rustup.rs>`
`rust-src`	`<via rustup>`
`rust-analysis`	`<via rustup>`
--------Platform-----	-------------------------------------
`camel-k`	`<gh release>`
------CLOUD----------	-------------------------------------
`oc`	`mirror.openshift.com`
`tkn`	`mirror.openshift.com`
`podman`	`container-tools:rhel8`
`buildah`	`container-tools:rhel8`
`skopeo`	`container-tools:rhel8`
`kubectl`	`<kubernetes dnf repo>`
`krew`	`<gh releases>`
`helm`	`<get.helm.sh>`
`kustomize`	`<gh releases>`
`tkn`	`<gh releases>`
`kn`	`<gh releases>`
`terraform`	`<releases.hashicorp.com>`
`docker`	`<download.docker.com>`
`docker-compose`	`<gh releases>`
`kamel`	`<gh release>`
TOTAL SIZE	8.75GB (3.6GB compressed)

Libraries:

e2fsprogs v1.46.5

Environment Variables:

JAVA_HOME_8, JAVA_HOME_11, JAVA_HOME_17, JAVA_HOME_21

UBI 10 based image

Image: quay.io/devfile/universal-developer-image:ubi10-latest

Test:

docker run -ti --rm quay.io/devfile/universal-developer-image:ubi10-latest bash

Included Development Tools:

Tool or language	ubi10 based image
--------JAVA---------	-------------------------------------
`sdk`	`<https://get.sdkman.io>`
`java`	`<8.0.472-tem via sdkman>`
`java`	`<11.0.29-tem via sdkman>`
`java`	`<17.0.17-tem via sdkman>`
`java`	`<21.0.9-tem via sdkman>`
`java`	`<23.0.2-tem via sdkman>/default`
`java`	`<25.0.1.r25-mandrel via sdkman>`
`maven`	`<via sdkman>`
`gradle`	`<via sdkman>`
`jbang`	`<via sdkman>`
--------SCALA--------	-------------------------------------
`cs`	`<https://get-coursier.io/>`
`sbt`	`<sbt launch script>`
`mill`	`<mill launch script>`
--------C/CPP--------	-------------------------------------
`gcc`	`gcc`
`g++`	`gcc-c++`
`clang`	`clang`
`gdb`	`gdb`
--------PHP----------	-------------------------------------
`php`	`php 8.3`
`composer`	`dnf`
`xdebug`	`php-pecl-xdebug`
-------NODEJS--------	-------------------------------------
`nodejs`	`24.12.0 (default), 22.21.1`
`npm`	`npm`
`yarn`	`v1.22.22`
--------GO-----------	-------------------------------------
`go`	`go-toolset 1.25+`
`gopls`	`golang.org/x/tools/gopls v0.21.0`
--------.NET---------	-------------------------------------
`dotnet`	`dotnet-sdk-10.0`
------PYTHON---------	-------------------------------------
`python`	`python3.13`
`setuptools`	`python3.13-setuptools`
`pip`	`python3.13-pip`
`pylint`	`<via pip>`
`yq`	`<via pip>`
--------RUST---------	-------------------------------------
`rustup`	`<sh.rustup.rs>`
`rust-src`	`<via rustup>`
`rust-analysis`	`<via rustup>`
`rust-analyzer`	`<via rustup>`
--------Platform-----	-------------------------------------
`camel-k`	`v2.8.0`
------CLOUD----------	-------------------------------------
`oc`	`v4.20`
`tkn`	`v1.20.0 (OpenShift)`
`kubectl`	`v1.28`
`krew`	`v0.4.5`
`helm`	`v4.0.4`
`kustomize`	`v5.8.0`
`tkn`	`v0.43.0 (Tekton)`
`kn`	`v1.20.0`
`terraform`	`v1.14.2`
`skaffold`	`<latest>`
`kamel`	`v2.8.0`
`shellcheck`	`v0.11.0`
TOTAL SIZE	TBD

Libraries:

e2fsprogs v1.47.3

Environment Variables:

JAVA_HOME_8, JAVA_HOME_11, JAVA_HOME_17, JAVA_HOME_21, JAVA_HOME_23, JAVA_HOME_25

Configuration

Registry Override

The workflows support using custom container registries through the REGISTRY environment variable. This is useful for forks that want to publish to their own registry.

Default behavior: Images are published to quay.io/devfile

To override in a fork:

Go to your repository Settings → Secrets and Variables → Actions → Variables
Add a repository variable: REGISTRY = your-registry.com/your-namespace
All workflows will automatically use your custom registry

Example registry formats:

quay.io/youruser
ghcr.io/youruser
docker.io/youruser
your-private-registry.com/namespace

Builds

This repo contains actions, including:

Downstream builds can be found at the link below, which is internal to Red Hat. Stable builds can be found by replacing the 3.x with a specific version like 3.2.

udi_3.x

License

Che is open sourced under the Eclipse Public License 2.0.