Bitnami is a library of installers or software packages for web applications and

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s as well as virtual appliances. Bitnami is sponsored by Bitrock, a company founded in 2003 in

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by Daniel Lopez Ridruejo and Erica Brescia. Bitnami stacks are used for installing software on

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and Solaris. VMware acquired Bitrock, along with its two largest properties, Bitnami and InstallBuilder, on May 15, 2019.

Technology overview

Bitnami stacks are available for web applications such as

WordPress WordPress (WP, or WordPress.org) is a web content management system. It was originally created as a tool to publish blogs but has evolved to support publishing other web content, including more traditional websites, electronic mailing list, ma ...

Drupal Drupal () is a free and open-source web content management system (CMS) written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License. Drupal provides an open-source back-end framework for at least 14% of the top 10,000 websites worldwide ...

, Joomla!, Redmine, AbanteCart, PrestaShop, Magento,

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and many others. In addition to the application itself, the stacks include the other software required to run that application. For example, a WordPress stack will include WordPress, as well as the MySQL database to manage data, Apache Web server to serve the pages,

OpenSSL OpenSSL is a software library for applications that provide secure communications over computer networks against eavesdropping, and identify the party at the other end. It is widely used by Internet servers, including the majority of HTTPS web ...

library for basic

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functions and PhpMyAdmin to administer MySQL. Bitnami installers are released under the

Apache License The Apache License is a permissive free software license written by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). It allows users to use the software for any purpose, to distribute it, to modify it, and to distribute modified versions of the software ...

2.0. Using automated

cloud computing Cloud computing is "a paradigm for enabling network access to a scalable and elastic pool of shareable physical or virtual resources with self-service provisioning and administration on-demand," according to International Organization for ...

management, Bitnami offers users automated application deployments of open source server apps from IBM Cloud,

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, Amazon EC2, Azure and

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servers. Since July 2009 Bitnami also offers ready-to-run

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s that contain a minimal and configured

operating system. Bitnami offers open source applications as modules for

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package developed by Apache Friends. The distinct difference between installation of Bitnami installers and native installs (e.g. rpms and debs on Linux) are that they are installed in a way as to prevent interference with existing software and libraries. If multiple applications are installed on the same web server considerations for resolving conflicts on specific ports must be made. On February 13, 2009, Bitnami announced the release of the Enano CMS web stack, which is unique in that, according to Bitnami and to the Enano CMS Project, the stack module was the first to be externally developed. In February 2010, Bitnami announced the release of Bitnami Cloud Hosting a service that allows deploying Bitnami stacks on the Amazon EC2 cloud, with automatic monitoring and backups. Since 2019, Bitnami has been part of VMware. VMware announced its intent to acquire Bitnami and proceeded on May 15, 2019.

Technology overview

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