Bitnami, a Broadcom-owned project that provides pre-packaged, ready-to-run application stacks (images), making it easy to deploy popular open-source software or Kubernetes tools on various containerized platforms, shook the tech world, especially within the open-source community.
In an unexpected and highly controversial move that caught everyone off guard, Bitnami announced that it is making changes to its public container catalog, and for many developers, it’s going to hurt.
Starting August 28, 2025, the long-standing Docker Hub repository at “docker.io/bitnami” will undergo a staged shutdown, with brownouts scheduled before the final deletion on September 29.
So glad I migrated from bitnami late last year. I can’t even remember exactly why, other than just dumb luck maybe?
Also, most of their offerings were more geared for larger setups if I remember correctly.
Linuxserver.io has a lot of what I use now. The rest are self updating game servers, so I think I’m good.
Big shocker that a corporately backed open source provider suddenly wants to capitalize!!! J/k obvs….
I just have a redis helm chart from them. Wondering if anyone else offers one. Nothing huge relying on it- just a need for a couple apps and that was there.
Can always keep the old images in my cache I suppose.
Probably either wait for some other provider to build helm charts, roll your own k8s YAML for Redis based on the helm chart and with standard Redis OCI images, or migrate to a different, but compatible service like DragonflyDB if you don’t need modern Redis features (not suggesting Valkey because they are also entrenched in Bitnami and offer it as the official chart source).
Another db would be fine. Just a normal memcache. I could definitely build my own- was just nice having fail over in an easy to use chart.
Thanks for the tip on dragonfly.
Why you should consider self-hosting instead of relying on a “free” provider reason 2759:
These containers are/were for self-hosting. VMWare previously owned Bitnami, it was their attempt to make it easier to self-host rather than paying a cloud provider, which should directly benefit them because VMWare got its money from businesses that self-host + self-host people growing up learning free homelab ESXi and wanting to apply that at work. It helps a lot if there’s well-maintained solutions for deploying popular stuff.
Then Broadcom bought VMWare for a ridiculous price and is doing none of that.
Ah, that makes a lot more sense why people were dependent on the software, but if anything, that proves that using essential software that can have the terms changed by “new management” is a bad idea. Your crucial hosting software should FOSS with no strings attached.
so glad I migrated from but amidst like 10+ years ago lol
