Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts • Hacker News Board

Re: Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts

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Post by TYMorningCoffee » Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 9:35 PM UTC

heisenbit wrote: post #8

radicalbyte wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The VMware apocalypse.

One does not need VMware for SpringBoot so?

VMware owns Spring Boot https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_Boot

Re: Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts

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Post by loloquwowndueo » Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 9:35 PM UTC

heisenbit wrote: post #8

radicalbyte wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The VMware apocalypse.

One does not need VMware for SpringBoot so?

Not spring boot, but spring, is owned by VMware. Sure spring is under a free license but if upstream enshittifies, community forks would be required.

Re: Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts

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Post by jacquesm » Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 9:46 PM UTC

js4ever wrote: post #5

Great more enshitification! Broadcom is destroying everything they touch

That's nonsense. RPi would not exist if not for Broadcom.

Re: Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts

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Post by sseveran » Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 10:06 PM UTC

This is going to cause some disruptions. What are the alternatives out there to bitnami charts?

Re: Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts

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Post by okanat » Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 10:14 PM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #13

js4ever wrote: post #5

Great more enshitification! Broadcom is destroying everything they touch

That's nonsense. RPi would not exist if not for Broadcom.

RPi doesn't exist due to Broadcom. It exists despite Broadcom.

Using RPis can be a huge PITA, if you'd like to do something a bit more complex with the hardware. HDMI, the video decoders are all behind closed doors with blobs on top of blobs and NDAs.

RPi SoCs are some of the weirdest out there. It boots from the GPU ffs.

Re: Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts

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Post by dpkirchner » Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 10:16 PM UTC

Maybe this will finally break me of my habit of using helm charts, period.

Re: Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts

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Post by chuckadams » Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 10:24 PM UTC

Broadcom gonna Broadcom. Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower.

Re: Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts

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Post by lapusta » Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 10:34 PM UTC

ntqz wrote: post #2

I could see the writing on the wall with this. On that note, I'm already looking at migrating my codebase off of Spring. Just testing the waters with Quarkus, Helidon, Micronaut, Pekko, Vert.x, and plain Jakarta EE right now.

Red Hat effectively killed their JBoss/Middleware team and the rest of it moved to IBM https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/evolving-our-middleware-strat... Quarkus and other tools were pushed to CommonHaus/Apache. I believe Vert.X was also mostly developer by RH team, although moved to Eclispe Foundation a decade ago.

Oracle also ended up somehow sponsoring 2 frameworks: Helidon & Micronaut.

I'd bet Spring is still the safest choice next to Jakarta EE standards that all are built on top of nowadays.

Re: Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts

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Post by chrisandchris » Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 10:37 PM UTC

sseveran wrote: post #14

This is going to cause some disruptions. What are the alternatives out there to bitnami charts?

They're all open source - fork the repo and start collectively maintain them.

Re: Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts

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Post by gchamonlive » Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 10:38 PM UTC

chrisandchris wrote: post #19

sseveran wrote: post #14

This is going to cause some disruptions. What are the alternatives out there to bitnami charts?

They're all open source - fork the repo and start collectively maintain them.

That doesn't really answer the question, does it?