Friday, February 24, 2012

BitNami Stacks in German and Romanian!

We are happy to announce that we added support for two new languages thanks to contributions from our community: German and Romanian. We have started adding these languages for the most popular Stacks: WordPress, Drupal, Joomla! and Redmine.
With this addition, we now support 8 languages in these Stacks including English, Spanish, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Hebrew and Korean.



 Romanian BitNami Wordpress welcome page

German Redmine

We will continue to translate BitNami Stacks into more languages. If you would like to help, please check our wiki entry on translations and start translating at translate.bitnami.org. Thanks to Christopher and to Mircea Pop for the translations!

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

New BitNami JRuby 1.6.6 all-in-one installer and VMs released


We are happy to announce a new version of BitNami JRubyStack which includes the latest version of JRuby 1.6.6 and, for the first time, it is also available for 64 bit machines. BitNami JRubyStack is a ready to run environment of JRuby, MySQL, Tomcat and a few other components. It is available as native installers for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, Virtual Machines and Amazon Machine Images.

Thanks to JRuby and the Warbler gem you can easily make a .war file from your rails projects that can be deployed with Tomcat. The rest of this post shows you how easy it is to do so. It assumes you have installed BitNami JRubyStack previously:

Here are the steps:

1 . Open a rubyconsole and move to your Rails application directory:

    cd jrubystack

2. Use the Warbler gem to generate a config/warble.rb file:

    jruby -S warble config

3 . Generate the .war file and copy it to the Tomcat's webapps directory. 

     On Unix systems:
    jruby -S warble war
    cp jrubystack.war ../../apache-tomcat/webapps

      On Windows:
    jruby -S warble war
    copy jrubystack.war c:\Program Files\BitNami JRubyStack\apache-tomcat\webapps
 
Once Tomcat is started you can point your browser to http://localhost:8080/jrubystack


It's that easy!

Friday, February 17, 2012

RHEL Support, BitNami Library Subscriptions, New Stacks & More - BitNami Announcement Roundup

This was quite a week for us here at BitNami - we had at least one announcement every day! In case you missed any of them, here is a roundup of all of the BitNami news from this week:


Run BitNami Apps on RHEL in the Cloud

In collaboration with Red Hat, we have published several of the most popular BitNami Stacks as RHEL-based AMIs for the Amazon CloudThe BitNami applications currently available as RHEL-based AMIs are: Drupal, Joomla!, Dokuwiki, Moodle, eZ Publish, Gallery, Mantis, phpBB and Piwik, with support for Alfresco, JasperServer and other applications coming soon. We also added RHEL support to BitNami Cloud Hosting. Read the announcement.



Subscriptions to the BitNami Application Library for Private and Public Clouds

On Monday, we announced BitNami Application Library subscriptions, which brings BitNami to private and public clouds. With a BitNami Application Library subscription, cloud hosting companies and IT departments can bring the simplicity of BitNami application deployment to their own clouds! Read the announcement.



New BitNami Stack for Wordpress Multisite

The new BitNami WordPress Multisite Stack addresses one of the most popular requests in our forums - out-of-the-box support for Wordpress Multisite. A WordPress Multisite Network is similar to a WordPress blog but it lets you create more blogs on demand. It is a collection of sites that share the same WordPress installation, plugins and themes.  Read the announcement.



New BitNami Stack: Review Board for Code Review

We welcomed another new addition to the BitNami family this week: Review Board. It provides a powerful web-based code review tool that offers developers an easy way to handle code reviews. It scales well from small projects to large companies and offers a variety of tools to take much of the stress and time out of the code review process. As with all BitNami applications, Review Board is available as a native installer, virtual machine image and Amazon cloud template (AMI). Review Board will also soon be available in BitNami Cloud Hosting, allowing it to be deployed to the Amazon cloud in one click and have it automatically backed up and monitored. 


DynamoDB Support in BitNami DjangoStack

To round out the week's announcements, we updated the BitNami DjangoStack to include the Python interface to Amazon Web Services (boto). We have updated it to the latest version (2.2.1), which includes support for AWS latest service, Amazon DynamoDB

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Run Your Favorite BitNami Apps on RHEL in the Cloud!

At BitNami, we are focused on simplifying application deployment from development through to production. Many of our users run their production applications on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and we are very pleased to announce BitNami support for RHEL on the Amazon Cloud! In collaboration with Red Hat, we have released the most popular BitNami applications as AMIs for AWS. We have also added support for RHEL to BitNami Cloud Hosting, the easiest way to run web applications on AWS.

The new BitNami RHEL AMIs are available at the same hourly rates as the standard Red Hat Enterprise Linux AMIs, so there is no additional cost to use the BitNami-Red Hat Enterprise Linux AMIs to run your favorite open source applications either directly on the Amazon Cloud or using BitNami Cloud Hosting. As with the standard Red Hat Enterprise Linux AMIs, you will have access to AWS premium support with back-end support from Red Hat and access to repository updates from Red Hat to keep your cloud servers patched and up-to-date. The BitNami-Red Hat Enterprise Linux AMIs are available across all Amazon Cloud regions, so you can deploy them in the US, Europe, Asia, and South America.

The BitNami applications currently available as RHEL-based AMIs are: Drupal, Joomla!, Dokuwiki, Moodle, eZ Publish, Gallery, Mantis, phpBB and Piwik, with support for Alfresco, JasperServer and other applications coming soon.



To run an AMI directly on the Amazon Cloud, visit our BitNami RHEL AMI page and click on the link for the AMI you would like to launch. If you would like dynamic application deployment, automatic backups, server scheduling, one click restores and re-sizes and built-in monitoring, sign up for a trial of BitNami Cloud Hosting, our platform for running apps on the AWS Cloud. 


Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Simplify Review Board installation with BitNami


We try our best at BitNami to provide an easy way for you to discover, install and use the best open source applications. We already package wikis, content management systems, blog software, customer relationship management tools and more.

We are happy to announce a new addition to our family, Review Board. It provides a powerful web-based code review tool that offers developers an easy way to handle code reviews. It scales well from small projects to large companies and offers a variety of tools to take much of the stress and time out of the code review process.

Review requests
Diff viewer
BitNami makes setting up Review Board a simple process, even if you are not familiar with Django or some of the other technologies it requires. Review Board itself is easy to use and you can learn more about how to configure it with your repository from its official manuals.


As with all BitNami applications, Review Board is available as a native installer, virtual machine image and Amazon cloud template (AMI). Review Board will also soon be available in BitNami Cloud Hosting, allowing it to be deployed to the Amazon cloud in one click and have it automatically backed up and monitored. Combined with the AWS free usage tier, you can have a completely free hosted setup of Review Board.


BitNami DjangoStack now supports DynamoDB


We recently included the Python interface to Amazon Web Services (boto) in the BitNami DjangoStack. We have updated it to the latest version (2.2.1), which includes support for AWS latest service, Amazon DynamoDB.

For more details about how to use boto with DynamoDB you can check the official boto documentation.

More details about DynamoDB itself can be found at the Amazon DynamoDB page.

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

New BitNami WordPress Multisite

We are happy to announce the new BitNami WordPress Multisite Stack, one of the most popular requests in our forums.

A WordPress Multisite Network is similar to a WordPress blog but it lets you create more blogs on demand. It is a collection of sites that share the same WordPress installation, plugins and themes. It is indicated for organizations, communities or user groups. This Stack is configured out of the box to use different domains or subdomains for each blog.

You can download a native installer, a virtual machine or deploy it directly in the Amazon Cloud.

BitNami WordPress Multisite

We also wrote a quick guide about how to create and configure sites with WordPress Multisite with BitNami. We will be adding support to WordPress Multisite to our BitNami Cloud Hosting offering in the near future as well.

Monday, February 13, 2012

Get BitNami for Your (Public or Private) Cloud


For the past 4 years, BitNami has been providing ready-to-run software bundles for popular open source applications to millions of developers around the world. Over the past several months, we have been working with public and private cloud providers to bring the BitNami library of applications to their clouds. Today, we are thrilled to announce our first enterprise offering, the BitNami Application Library, which brings the ease of BitNami application deployment to public and private clouds!

A subscription to the BitNami Application Library enables public cloud providers and internal IT departments to provide the simplicity of BitNami application deployment on their own cloud. BitNami application images are ready-to-run and are optimized for the target environment, be it vCloud, Eucalyptus, OpenStack or another cloud or virtualization platform. BitNami Application Library subscriptions include:

  • A set of over 20 ready-to-run application and development environment images such as Drupal, Alfresco, Wordpress, SugarCRM, Liferay, Ruby on Rails, Tomcat, LAMP, JBoss and more.
  • Optimized, standardized images bundled with your Linux distribution of choice.
  • Regularly updated images as new applications and component versions are released on the BitNami site.
  • Integration with and (optional) automated publishing of updated images to your repository.
  • Access to the BitNami support team.

  • For private clouds, a subscription to the BitNami Application Library enables IT departments to provide a ready-to-run set of application images for their private cloud (or virtualized) platform. This ensures consistency in application and component versions throughout their environments while making it easy to get business apps up and running quickly.

    For public clouds, a subscription to the BitNami Application Library enables cloud providers to offer one-click deployment of the most popular open source applications and development environments. This provides an easy onramp for new customers and helps drive additional cloud usage by existing customers by significantly simplifying the process of deploying apps in the cloud.

    If you would like to bring BitNami to your vCloud, Eucalyptus, OpenStack or other cloud platform, contact us at sales@bitrock.com or +1 (866) 870-2383.


    Stay tuned for upcoming customer announcements!

    Friday, February 10, 2012

    Cloud Hosting for Liferay from BitNami

    Liferay is now available in BitNami Cloud Hosting! Liferay is the newest application to join the growing list of apps in BitNami Cloud Hosting, which provides one-click deployment of dozens of open source applications and development environments to the Amazon Cloud (AWS). Liferay is an open source portal, web content and collaboration software platform that powers internal and external websites for some of the world's largest companies, such as Cisco, T-Mobile, Barclays Bank, Autozone, China Mobile and many others.

    Liferay in BitNami Cloud Hosting

    For Liferay users, BitNami Cloud Hosting provides the easiest way to host Liferay in the cloud. In addition to simplified application deployment, BitNami Cloud Hosting provides automatic backups, backup retention policies, server scheduling, monitoring and other features that simplify the hosting of apps on AWS.

    We offer a free unlimited 30-day trial of BitNami Cloud Hosting as well as a free developer plan, which allows you to launch and manage one micro instance free for one year. Combining this with Amazon's free tier provides you with a free year of hosting for a cloud server! Sign up for a free trial to have Liferay up and running on the Amazon Cloud in minutes.


    Thursday, February 9, 2012

    BitNami Trac Stack 0.12.3 ready to go with Subversion 1.7

    Three days ago Trac 0.12.3 was released. This is a minor release which contains a several fixes including compatibility with Subversion 1.7.

    We haven't wasted time and we have already released a new BitNami Trac Stack that includes the just released Trac version. It also bundles Subversion 1.7.1.



    You can find the detailed list of fixes for Trac 0.12.3 at:

    http://trac.edgewall.org/milestone/0.12.3

    The improvements and new features in Subversion 1.7.1 since Subversion 1.6 can be found at:

    http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/tags/1.7.1/CHANGES

    Tuesday, February 7, 2012

    BitNami Stacks in Korean and Hebrew!

    We are happy to announce that we added support for two new languages thanks to contributions from our community: Korean and Hebrew. We have started adding these languages for the most popular Stacks: WordPress, Drupal, Joomla! and Redmine.

    Korean BitNami Drupal welcome page

    Hebrew Joomla!

    We continue looking to translate BitNami Stacks to more languages. If you would like to help, please check our wiki entry on translations and start translating at translate.bitnami.org. Thanks to Yaron Shahrabani and Shin for the translations!

    Thursday, February 2, 2012

    BitNami DjangoStack: Updates

    We have recently released a new version of the BitNami DjangoStack. This version includes a major update in the MySQL database version to MySQL 5.5. Another improvement for the Linux and Mac OS X installers (also VMs and Linux AMIs) is that the Python Imaging Library is now included. We found that users were finding issues when trying to install PIL on top of the BitNami DjangoStack on Unix distributions especially in Mac OS X. In our aim to simplify the development and deployment of Django applications by providing a ready-to-run environment, we have now included this library in the BitNami DjangoStack.