diff --git a/universal/ubi8/Dockerfile b/universal/ubi8/Dockerfile
index bb1d6648..c65dd4c0 100644
--- a/universal/ubi8/Dockerfile
+++ b/universal/ubi8/Dockerfile
@@ -219,6 +219,9 @@ RUN mkdir -p /var/lib/shared/overlay-images /var/lib/shared/overlay-layers; \
 RUN mkdir -p "${HOME}"/.config/containers && \
    (echo '[storage]';echo 'driver = "vfs"') > "${HOME}"/.config/containers/storage.conf
 
+# Configure container engine
+COPY --chown=0:0 containers.conf /etc/containers/containers.conf
+
 # Install kubedock
 ENV KUBEDOCK_VERSION 0.13.0
 RUN curl -L https://github.com/joyrex2001/kubedock/releases/download/${KUBEDOCK_VERSION}/kubedock_${KUBEDOCK_VERSION}_linux_amd64.tar.gz | tar -C /usr/local/bin -xz \
diff --git a/universal/ubi8/containers.conf b/universal/ubi8/containers.conf
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f6ad1381
--- /dev/null
+++ b/universal/ubi8/containers.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+[containers]
+default_ulimits = [
+ "nofile=65535:65535",
+]