Bitnami is a library of

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s or software packages for web applications and

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s as well as

virtual appliance A virtual appliance is a pre-configured virtual machine image, ready to run on a hypervisor; virtual appliances are a subset of the broader class of software appliances. Installation of a software appliance on a virtual machine and packaging that ...

s. 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

Linux Linux ( or ) is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged as a Linux distribution, w ...

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and Solaris.

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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 free and open-source content management system (CMS) written in hypertext preprocessor language and paired with a MySQL or MariaDB database with supported HTTPS. Features include a plugin architecture ...

, Drupal, Joomla!,

Redmine Redmine is a free and open source, web-based project management and issue tracking tool. It allows users to manage multiple projects and associated subprojects. It features per project wikis and forums, time tracking, and flexible, role-based acc ...

, AbanteCart, PrestaShop,

Magento Magento is an open-source e-commerce platform written in PHP. It uses multiple other PHP frameworks such as Laminas (formerly known as Zend Framework) and Symfony. Magento source code is distributed under Open Software License (OSL) v3.0. Ma ...

MediaWiki MediaWiki is a free and open-source wiki software. It is used on Wikipedia and almost all other Wikimedia websites, including Wiktionary, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata; these sites define a large part of the requirement set for MediaWi ...

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 library for basic cryptographic functions and

PhpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin is a free and open source administration tool for MySQL and MariaDB. As a portable web application written primarily in PHP, it has become one of the most popular MySQL administration tools, especially for web hosting services. His ...

to administer MySQL. Bitnami installers are released under the Apache License 2.0. Using automated

cloud computing Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage ( cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user. Large clouds often have functions distributed over mu ...

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

IBM Cloud IBM Cloud, (formerly known as Bluemix) is a set of cloud computing services for business offered by the information technology company IBM. Services As of 2021, IBM Cloud contains more than 170 services including compute, storage, networki ...

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Amazon EC2 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a part of Amazon.com's cloud-computing platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), that allows users to rent virtual computers on which to run their own computer applications. EC2 encourages scalable deployment of ...

, Azure and Google Cloud Platform 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

XAMPP XAMPP ( or ) is a free and open-source cross-platform web server solution stack package developed by Apache Friends, consisting mainly of the Apache HTTP Server, MariaDB database, and interpreters for scripts written in the PHP and Perl prog ...

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

cloud, with automatic monitoring and backups. Since 2019, Bitnami has been part of

. VMware announced its intent to acquire Bitnami and proceeded on May 15, 2019.

Technology overview

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