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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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carlhjerpe ◴[] No.45050823[source]
Packaging is not miniscule value, it's valuable gruntwork.
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pst ◴[] No.45051426[source]
A lot of work that apparently is not valued enough to justify paying for.
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1. asmor ◴[] No.45051781{3}[source]
The problem isn't paying for it, it's the extra workload of retrofitting authentication to all your things. I'd find this a lot more enticing if they just made you set a "i have a license or i am evaluating or i am not commercial" flag in Helm or fail the build. Plus the cost is extremely disproportionate, but some will pay it given the one month deadline.