My company is RHEL customer, and I need base container images for:
Looking at these 2 docker files, they are identical. Is there any difference in support model, or maintenance?
By the docs of RHEL
The legacy rhel7-minimal (or rhel7-atomic) and UBI ubi7-minimal images are stripped-down RHEL images to use when a bare-bones base image in desired. RHEL minimal images provide a base for your own container images that is less than half the size of the standard image, while still being able to draw on RHEL software repositories and maintain any compliance requirements your software has.
BOTH
ATOMIC
UBI-MINIMAL
Size: 79.1MB - 83MB; composed of 91 packages. - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1703082
Designed for applications that contain their own dependencies (Python, Node.js, .NET, etc.) - https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/introducing-red-hat-universal-base-image
This image is maintained by Red Hat and updated regularly. - https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/ubi7/ubi-minimal/5c3594f7dd19c775cddfa777?gti-tabs=unauthenticated&container-tabs=dockerfile
I personally would choose UBI-Minimal, but, think you should also take a look at the UBI FAQ to know the details, pros and cons of each image depending on your business - https://developers.redhat.com/articles/ubi-faq#ubi_details