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Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts

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210 points mmoogle | 3 comments | 18 Jul 25 19:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.667s | source
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ridruejo ◴[19 Jul 25 00:13 UTC] No.44611282[source]▶
Hi, former cofounder of Bitnami here. I left VMware quite a while ago, so not involved with this. The technical team at Bitnami is still top notch and great people. I am quite baffled at this business decision.
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1. whoIsYou ◴[19 Jul 25 04:47 UTC] No.44612673[source]▶
nobody familiar with broadcom or how they are run should be even remotely surprised by this decision
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2. ridruejo ◴[19 Jul 25 11:04 UTC] No.44614432[source]▶
It’s mostly that they don’t understand their own users and potential customers in this particular case of Bitnami. There are so many other ways to increase revenue without alienating the core developer base. Enterprise want stability, breaking changes is a poor way to convince someone to pay you.
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3. stackskipton ◴[19 Jul 25 15:50 UTC] No.44616522[source]▶
Is there other ways that are just as easy?

Last company was pretty heavy free user of Bitnami charts for various things but biggest being Redis clusters. I can't imagine they could convert everything into a cluster using their own charts before this kicks in. Very possible they end up tossing at least a year worth of licensing towards Bitnami.