Bitnami

In this blog, I want to introduce you to Bitnami!

About Bitnami
Bitnami is a catalog of 120+ ready-to-use Web applications and development stacks, available as virtual machines, native installers, cloud images, containers and Helm charts.  
VMware acquired Bitnami on 15th May 2019. 

There are different ways in which you, as a developer, can use Bitnami. However, one of the easier ways is to use it for offline development on your laptop. This document outlines the steps to get started with Bitnami applications for offline development. 

Deployment Options 

You can deploy and use a Bitnami application in two ways: 

As a virtual machine downloaded from the Bitnami website or the VMware Marketplace;

As a Helm chart deployed through Bitnami Kubeapps in your private Kubernetes cluster. 

Use a Bitnami Virtual Machine  

Assumptions and Prerequisites: You have VMware Workstation/Player/Virtualbox installed and configured. 

Steps  

1. Create and activate an account on  You will need to provide an email address as part of the activation process; you can use either your official or personal email address.

2. Select the "Products -> Application Catalog" menu item and search for the required application, such as "mysql" or "mongodb" 

 

3. On the application detail page, click the "Virtual Machines" tab and download the OVA file for the application. This file can be used with VMware Workstation/Player.  

 

4. Launch VMware Workstation/Player. Click "Import", select the downloaded OVA file from the previous step. 

5. Once the virtual machine starts, log in to the console with these credentials: 

Username: bitnami 

Password: bitnami  

6. After login, change the password for security reasons. 
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8. Further Reading 

Bitnami Virtual Machines 

• https://docs.bitnami.com/virtual-machine/get-started-vmware/ 
• https://docs.bitnami.com/virtual-machine/faq/ 

Bitnami Kubeapps 

• https://kubeapps.com/ 
• https://docs.bitnami.com/kubernetes/how-to/install-use-kubeapps/ 

• https://docs.bitnami.com/kubernetes/how-to/deploy-wordpress-helm-chart-using-kubeapps/ 

Harbor

In this blog, want to introduce you to one of the open-source project called Harbor, wherein VMware has a majority of contributions. Here is the home page of Harbor https://goharbor.io/

In short, this will help you to securely store your modern cloud-native applications container images and also scan them proactively for any security vulnerabilities.

Since this is open-source, you can save a lot on license costs which you may spend on preparatory software.

It comes with lot of features like repo replication, multi-tenant, identity management, role-based access, content signing, and validation, etc.

Last but not least, you can seamlessly integrate Harbor with your CI/CD DevOps pipelines.

So, what are you waiting for, please visit https://goharbor.io/ download and start using!