containers

Just to be crystal clear about the open source part: the code for all container images will continue to be maintained, kept up to date, and publicly accessible on GitHub (https://github.com/bitnami/containers) under the Apache 2 license. What Bitnami is discontinuing is the publishing of prebuilt images to public registries. However, the build code remains available, so users can still build the images themselves and push them to their own registries by running a couple of commands.

https://github.com/bitnami/containers/issues/83267 I.e https://github.com/bitnami/containers/issues/83267#issuecomm...

"Makefile" they have written and copyrighting is very non trivial and there are many man-months of effort. Configuring all sorts of software just with env vars and make it usable is not an easy feat. Have a look at https://github.com/bitnami/containers/tree/main/bitnami/post... as example. It might be worth a commercial license for some of their current user-base, no doubt.

> Source code for OCI images: https://github.com/bitnami/containers/tree/main/bitnami If you look at the folders there, you'll see that all of the older Dockerfiles have been removed, even for versions of software that are not EOL. For example: PostgreSQL 13 (gone): https://github.com/bitnami/containers/tree/main/bitnami/post... PostgreSQL 14 (gone): https://github.com/bitnami/containers/tree/main/bitnami/post... PostgreSQL 15 (gone): https://github.com/bitnami/containers/tree/main/bitnami/post... PostgreSQL 16 (gone): https://github.com/bitnami/containers/tree/main/bitnami/post... PostgreSQL 17 (present): https://github.com/bitnami/containers/tree/main/bitnami/post... > The source code for containers and Helm charts remains available on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 license. Ofc they're all still in the Git history: https://github.com/bitn

They write in the press release, that the sources remain under Apache 2 license, they just stop distributing prebuilt images for free. Edit: As I see it's true. Source code for OCI images: https://github.com/bitnami/containers/tree/main/bitnami Charts: https://github.com/bitnami/charts/tree/main/bitnami

> Legacy repository migration > All existing container images, including older or versioned tags (e.g., 2.50.0, 10.6), will be moved from the public catalog (docker.io/bitnami) to the Bitnami Legacy repository (docker.io/bitnamilegacy). This legacy catalog will receive no further updates or support and should only be used for temporary migration purposes. This sucks, I used to like the Bitnami container images (didn't need the Helm charts) because the images were consistent and consistently nice (documentation, persistent storage, configuration, sizes), but now I need to move off of those. Basically, I'll need to move to the regular upstream images for: * web servers (Apache2 because it's well suited for my needs, but the same would apply to Nginx and Caddy) * relational DBs (MariaDB, though I'm moving over to MySQL 8 for any software