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The Deletion of Docker.io/Bitnami

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asmor ◴[] No.45049447[source]
> However, in order to sustain and support the dedicated team of engineers who maintain and build new charts and images, a subscription will be required if an organization needs the images and charts built and hosted in an OCI registry for them.

This is such a naive take. Bitnami images were a sign of goodwill, a foot in the door at places were the hardened images were actually needed. They just couldn't compete with the better options on the market. This isn't a way to fix it, it's extortion. This is the same thing Terraform Cloud did, and I don't think that product is doing so hot.

> Essentially, Bitnami has been the Jenkins of the internet for many years, but this has become unsustainable.

It's other people's software, so it's very rich of Bitnami to accuse anyone of freeloading when their only contribution is adding config options to software that maybe corresponds to a level 2 on the OperatorFramework capability scale[1] - usually more of a 1.

[1]: https://operatorframework.io/operator-capabilities/

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pst ◴[] No.45050800[source]
You're not wrong. They add miniscule value. But what does that say about the people using these images who are now struggling to replace them?
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1. AndrewDucker ◴[] No.45050858[source]
You can't have it both ways.

If their value-add was miniscule then they should be trivial to replace.

If it's a struggle to replace them then that's the value they were adding.

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2. pebble ◴[] No.45050987[source]
No, the struggle is fully manufactured by this rug pull. If I had known this was going to happen when I was setting up my infra I could've used any number of other alternatives, including just building them myself, at little to no extra effort. Now I have to waste time migrating off of these.
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3. immibis ◴[] No.45051546[source]
You did know this was going to happen, and chose to pretend you didn't.
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4. tremon ◴[] No.45053811{3}[source]
We also know the Sun is going to swallow the Earth and eventually burn up. That doesn't mean we stop building with what we have now.