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Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts

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Re: Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts

#31

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

The source code for Bitnami containers and Helm charts remains publicly available on GitHub and continues to be licensed under Apache 2.

What’s changing is that Bitnami will no longer publish the full catalog of container images to DockerHub. If you need any image, you can still build/package it yourself from the open-source GitHub repositories.

Re: Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts

#32

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

Why do you want to stop using helm charts? Genuine question, as I'm new to Kubernetes and helm.

I will leave it to others: https://noyaml.com

Re: Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts

#33
This announcement is a little hard to read. They make it seem that the current images under docker.io/bitnami/* get deleted on August 28? But individual chart READMEs seem to say that images will move during a period starting on August 28 and ending two weeks later? But looking at https://hub.docker.com/u/bitnamilegacy images have been copied already?

From ticket https://github.com/bitnami/charts/issues/35164:

> Now – August 28th, 2025: Plan your migration: Update CI/CD pipelines, Helm repos, and image references

> August 28th, 2025: Legacy assets are archived in the Bitnami Legacy repository.

From README https://github.com/bitnami/charts/blob/4973fd08dd7e95398ddcc...:

> Starting August 28th, over two weeks, all existing container images, including older or versioned tags (e.g., 2.50.0, 10.6), will be migrated from the public catalog (docker.io/bitnami) to the “Bitnami Legacy” repository (docker.io/bitnamilegacy), where they will no longer receive updates.

What are users expected to do exactly?

Re: Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts

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Are there any indications or just a feel?

Company where I work had huge risk audit. The second highest risk is using USA based cloud with 66/100. The first one was using Spring Boot everywhere 77/100. Till the end of 2025 we need to have migration path to something else with 2 PoCs done.

What was the actual risk of using SpringBoot tho?

Re: Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts

#38

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

I’ve never used Helm charts. I learned K8S in a shop in which kustomize is the standard and helm is a permitted exception to the standard, but I just never felt any reason to learn helm. Am I missing out?

Sometimes the limitations of kustomize annoy me, but we find ways to live with them

Re: Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts

#39
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This announcement is a little hard to read. They make it seem that the current images under docker.io/bitnami/* get deleted on August 28? But individual chart READMEs seem to say that images will move during a period starting on August 28 and ending two weeks later? But looking at https://hub.docker.com/u/bitnamilegacy images have been copied already? From ticket https://github.com/bitnami/charts/issues/35164 : > Now…

The complete history of Bitnami container images has been copied to the "bitnamilegacy" repository. New tags will continue to be synced there until August 28th. After that date, "bitnamilegacy" will no longer receive updates, and images in the mainline "bitnami" repository will begin to be removed over a period that may take up to two weeks.

Once the cleanup is complete, the mainline "bitnami" repository on DockerHub will contain only a limited subset of Bitnami Secure Images (at this moment available at "bitnamisecure"). These are hardened, security-enhanced containers intended for development or trial use, providing a preview of the full feature set available in the paid offering.

- Bitnami: https://hub.docker.com/u/bitnami - Bitnami Legacy: https://hub.docker.com/u/bitnamilegacy - Bitnami Secure Images: https://hub.docker.com/u/bitnamisecure

Re: Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts

#40

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

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

You asked for an alternative and that seems like an alternative to me.
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