diff --git a/base/redhat-8/Dockerfile b/base/redhat-8/Dockerfile
index 6291c9cb..c34b396d 100644
--- a/base/redhat-8/Dockerfile
+++ b/base/redhat-8/Dockerfile
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 # the container catalog moved from registry.access.redhat.com to registry.redhat.io
 # So at some point before they deprecate the old registry we have to make sure that
 # we have access to the new registry and change where we pull the ubi image from.
-FROM registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/ubi-minimal
+FROM registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/ubi-minimal:8.0-213
 LABEL name="splunk" \
       maintainer="support@splunk.com" \
       vendor="splunk" \
diff --git a/base/redhat-8/install.sh b/base/redhat-8/install.sh
index 73cc73cc..db67be8f 100755
--- a/base/redhat-8/install.sh
+++ b/base/redhat-8/install.sh
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@
 set -e
 
 # reinstalling local en def for now, removed in minimal image https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1665251
-microdnf -y update
 microdnf -y --nodocs install glibc-langpack-en
 
 #Currently there is no access to the UTF-8 char map, the following command is commented out until