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The Deletion of Docker.io/Bitnami

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329 points zdkaster | 1 comments | 28 Aug 25 04:37 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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wilonth ◴[28 Aug 25 08:57 UTC] No.45049971[source]▶
I never understood the point of Bitnami. Every time I tried one of their image / package, it's a complicated mess full of custom and strange stuff, really hard to work with.

Instead of a simple package of the software based on some familiar base, you get some weird enterprise garbage that follows strange conventions and a nightmare when you need to customize anything.

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1. eyegor ◴[28 Aug 25 13:52 UTC] No.45052217[source]▶
I've used them as a quick way to get rootless configured base images. Not sure if official repos provide those now, but it used to be a big hassle to get things like postgres images running without root in their containers. Although I often had to read through their dockerfiles to figure out the uid setup, where configs live, etc because they were not consistent between the various bitnami images.