Friday, May 22, 2015

Install Magento 2 in just a few clicks

We are happy to announce that Magento 2 is now on the Bitnami Library!


Magento 2 is an open-source content management system for e-commerce web sites, and a major version built on a new and modern technology stack. This is a Beta version, currently under development, but already features notable improvements with performance, scalability and modularity.

The Bitnami Magento stack provides a one-click install solution for Magento 2, with compiling, configuring and all of its dependencies (third-party libraries, runtime, and database) taken care of so that it works out-of-the-box. The Bitnami Magento stack includes ready-to-run versions of Apache, MySQL, PHP and Magento.

Magento 2 is now ready to install in a few clicks with the Bitnami Magento installers (available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X), Virtual Machine images (VMs) and cloud images for Amazon EC2 and Microsoft Azure.

Want to learn more about the Bitnami Magento stack? Post your question in our community forum, and a member of the Bitnami team will help you.

Bitnami Nginx v1.8.0 now available



Nginx, the web server and mail proxy, released version 1.8.0 and we are happy to announce this version is already available in Bitnami.

In case you are not familiar with Nginx, it is a small but very powerful and efficient web server and mail proxy. It is trusted by many of the busiest sites on Internet, and its main advantage is scalability.

Nginx 1.8.0 stable version incorporates many new features such as hash load balancing method, backend, SSL certificate verification, experimental thread pools support, proxy_request_buffering and more. You can find the complete list of its features here.

Bitnami Nginx is available as native installers (available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS),virtual machines and cloud images for Amazon EC2, Azure and Google Cloud Platform. Bitnami Nginx ships Nginx web server, MySQL database server, PHP and phpMyAdmin right out of the box.

You can find more information about how to manage your installation on our wiki. Still have questions? We would be happy to answer them on our community forum.

Thursday, May 21, 2015

Try YouTrack by JetBrains - for free


YouTrack by JetBrains gives you the ability to manage everything related to your team’s projects, and it is now easily accessible from the Bitnami Library! From project releases to bug tracking, YouTrack can do it all. Each of YouTrack’s features will allow your team to be as productive as possible while having as much fun as possible. And we can’t forget to mention that it comes with Scrum and Kanban, right out of the box. Some other features include:
  • Powerful query language with completion and highlighting for smarter issue search
  • Agile board with Scrum and Kanban support
  • A live Dashboard with widgets for reports, issues, and notes
  • Multiple report types for more effective project management and analysis 
  • Built-in image editor to quickly crop, highlight, and annotate screenshots 
  • Flexible customization with powerful workflows and custom fields
  • REST API for automated operations and integration with third-party applications
With Bitnami YouTrack, your team can use all the features that YouTrack has to offer for free! The free version provides a full set of features for up to 10 users, including custom logos, and can be used for business purposes as well.

Get YouTrack now in just a few clicks with the Bitnami YouTrack installersVirtual Machine images, and cloud images for Amazon EC2 and Google Cloud Platform.

If you want to check out YouTrack, you can launch a free cloud demo server. By clicking the button below, you will have your own YouTrack instance running for 1 hour, for free!


Don't forget to visit our wiki to learn how to manage your installation. Still have questions? Head over to our community forum for answers.

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Bitnami applications available in the OpenStack Community App Catalog

Today the Open Stack Foundation announced a new resource for sharing applications and developer tools during a keynote at the OpenStack Summit. The Community App Catalog — now available in beta — is open for contributions and will be curated by the community.

Five Bitnami stacks are featured the inaugural community catalog, including MEAN, Jenkins, Ruby Stack, LAMP Stack, Wordpress. This gives cloud users and developers point-and-click access to the applications, as well as a way to collaborate and access new technologies in the OpenStack ecosystem.

Bitnami is pleased to be a part of the effort to make installing cloud stacks and apps easier, alongside products from ActiveState, Google, Oracle and RedHat.

Have you explored the community catalog? We’d love to hear what you think. Share your opinion in the comments below. Or read the announcement from the OpenStack Foundation to learn more.



New to Bitnami: Backendless Enterprise

Backendless Enterprise – the newest addition to the Bitnami Library – is offering a free trial of their Enterprise Edition for up to 5 users. With a trial, you can experience all of the features that Backendless has to offer.

This mobile Backend as a Service (BaaS) platform is great for anyone who wants to build mobile applications with speed and ease. The platform can be used to create a variety of applications, ranging from line-of-business apps to social media, interactive, and entertainment apps, without server coding. It does this by utilizing programmable services that supply standard server functions.

Backendless is known for its ability to help developers produce applications in the nick of time with features such as:
  • Cross-platform data interchange – strongly-typed objects can cross boundaries of client-side environments without any additional processing or special code. For instance, an instance of class Order may be saved by an Android app and will arrive as an instance of the corresponding class Order to an iOS app.
  • Client-side debugging of custom business logic – developers can debug custom business logic locally on their machines before deploying it to the cloud.
  • Client-side code generation – Backendless generates client-side code for Android, iOS, JavaScript and ActionScript applications. The generated code provides access to the persistent storage via object-oriented data model. Also it includes complete app modules for user registration and logic, chat messaging, video streaming and geo location services.
  • Unlimited API call and unlimited request/second throughput – we do not limit our users and customers on the number of API calls their apps can make.
  • Multi-tier Security – Application data and API operations can be restricted with multi-tiered security policies which can protect data at different levels ranging from object-level ACL to application-wide restrictions.


Get Backendless Enterprise now in just a few clicks with the Bitnami Backendless installersVirtual Machine images, and cloud images for Amazon EC2 and Google Cloud Platform.

Need help managing your installation? Visit our wiki or head to our community forum for expert advice from our team.

Monday, May 18, 2015

Vote for Bitnami's session at VMworld 2015

Attending VMworld this fall? The VMworld 2015 Conference for Virtualization and Cloud Computing is open to public voting now through May 26th. You can now vote for Bitnami session #4867, Zero to App Awesomeness in 10 Minutes with vCloud Air.  

In this session we will demo how to deploy and configure complex, real-world applications to VMware vCloud Air. 

Led by VMware Cloud Architect, Massimo Re Ferrè and Bitnami VP of Product, Simon Bennett, you will learn how to combine Bitnami’s application stacks with vCloud Air’s per-minute pricing, and leave the session ready to roll-out new solutions in minutes. 

Key concepts such as networking and firewall setup, working across regions, and migrating between the cloud and the datacenter will be covered. In addition to addressing infrastructure considerations, we’ll also demonstrate popular applications available for vCloud Air and show you how they can help business users and software developers within your organization.

63% of businesses say that cloud computing improves agility. Learn how to move fast and not break things. Vote early, vote often, vote here

Friday, May 8, 2015

New to the Bitnami Library: OpenCart ecommerce platform

We're excited to announce that OpenCart is now a part of the Bitnami Library!

OpenCart is a free open source ecommerce platform for online merchants. OpenCart provides a professional and reliable foundation from which to build a successful online store. In case you are not familiar with OpenCart, it's most important features are the following:
  • Templatable: A built-in template system allows you to easily switch between different templates
  • Multi-store: Multi-store abilities, which allow you to manage multiple stores from one admin interface
  • Multiple Tax rates: Setup multiple tax zones so that the correct taxes are paid depending on which country the goods are going to be paid from or shipped to
  • Payment gateways: Support for multiple gateways, by default
  • Different Shipping methods
  • Modules: A module based system that allows users to easily extend the functionality for their needs 
  • SEO optimized: allowing pages to be indexed by all major search engines
  • Sales reports: OpenCart currently offers 3 different types of reports
OpenCart is now ready to install in a few clicks with the Bitnami OpenCart installers (available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X), Virtual Machine images (VMs) and Amazon EC2, Google and Windows Azure cloud images.

If you want to check out OpenCart, simply launch a free cloud demo server. Click the button below to run your own OpenCart instance for 1 hour, free of charge!


Would you like to see your favorite app in the Bitnami Library? Nominate it and then vote in our monthly contest!

Thursday, May 7, 2015

Security release: WordPress 4.2.2


The WordPress project has just released a new version that fixes two security issues. The issues are explained below:
  • The Genericons icon font package contained an HTML file vulnerable to a cross-site scripting attack 
  • WordPress versions 4.2 and earlier are affected by a critical cross-site scripting vulnerability, which could enable anonymous users to compromise a site 
We have released Bitnami WordPress 4.2.2 (and Multisite version) installers, virtual machines and Amazon EC2, Google and Azure cloud images that fix these issues.

If you already have a running version of Bitnami WordPress, the application will be automatically updated. You can confirm that the update has been done by checking the version from your admin panel.

To learn more about these security issues, you can read about them further on the WordPress blog. Have questions about Bitnami WordPress? Post to our community forum, and we would be happy to help you. 


Welcome Codiad to the Bitnami Library!


We are happy to announce that Codiad is now available on the Bitnami Library!

Codiad is a web-based IDE that lets you develop code fast and from wherever you want, with minimal requirements. You will only need a browser on the client side, and Apache and PHP on the server side. Also, you will not have to worry about database maintenance.

Codiad comes with almost the same features you would find in the most common desktop IDEs:
  • Support for 40+ languages 
  • Plugin library 
  • Error checking and notifications 
  • Multiple user support 
  • Advanced searching tools 
  • Smart auto-complete 
  • Real-time collaborative editing 
  • 20 syntax color themes 
If you want to quickly check out Codiad, you can launch a free cloud demo server. By clicking the button below, you will have your own Codiad instance running for 1 hour, for free!




Codiad IDE is now ready to install in a few clicks with the Bitnami Codiad Installers (available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X), Virtual Machine images(VMs), cloud images for Amazon EC2, Azure and Google Cloud Platform.

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Simple Invoices joins the Bitnami Library!

Today Simple Invoices joins the Bitnami Library!

Simple Invoices is a web-based invoicing system designed with simplicity and functionality in mind. Catering to the needs of small organizations and home users, Simple Invoices does much more than managing invoicing. It also tracks inventory, creates receipts, estimates, and quotes. 

For people on a budget, Simple Invoices eases the process of managing accounting, and simply getting paid while running and managing a business. Other important features include:
  • Multiple invoice types: total invoices, itemized invoices
  • Save invoices as PDF, Word, Excel, or plain text files
  • Invoice templates, be able to select(or create) different layouts for your invoices
  • Invoice preferences, enables you to define and customize all the wordings on the invoices
  • PayPal payment gateway support
  • Recurring invoices
  • Alternate invoice numbering based on Invoice preference
  • Basic inventory support

Simple Invoices is now ready to install in a few clicks with the Bitnami Simple Invoices installers (available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X), Virtual Machine images (VMs) and Amazon EC2, Google and Windows Azure cloud images.


If you want to try Simple Invoices, you can launch a free cloud demo server. Click the button below to create your own Simple Invoices instance to run for 1 hour -- free!



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Live Helper Chat is now in the Bitnami Catalog!

We are happy to announce that Live Helper Chat is now in the Bitnami Library!

Live Helper Chat is an open source live support chat. With Live Helper Chat you can add live support to your site for free. In case you are not familiar with Live Helper Chat, it's most important features are the following:
  • XMPP support for notifications about new chats (iPhone, iPad, Android, Blackberry, gTalk etc...)
  • Chrome extension
  • Repeatable sound notifications
  • Work hours
  • See what user see with the screenshot feature
  • Drag & Drop widgets, minimize/maximize widgets
  • Multiple chats same time and many more

Live Helper Chat is now ready to install in a few clicks with the Bitnami Live Helper Chat installers (available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X), Virtual Machines (VMs) and Amazon EC2, Google and Microsoft Azure cloud images.

We had the pleasure of interviewing Remigijus Kiminas, Live Helper Chat's developer. Learn more about the Live Helper Chat project in the interview below:

What is the main goal of the Live Helper Chat application?

Live Helper Chat aims to be one of the best Open Source-Live Support solutions available. It's goal is very simple - give sites and e-commerce owners a fully flexible live support solution, without depending on any third party services, except hosting itself.

What are some Live Helper Chat application features?

Features like XMPP notifications, Co-Browsing, Pro-Active invitations are just the tip of the iceberg; There are many cool things you can do with Live Helper Chat. For advanced usage, it also supports NodeJS, PostgreSQL, Redis, and upcoming versions will have also full XMPP support (ejabberd).

Which projects or companies are using Live Helper Chat? What kind of projects do they use it for?

From what I know, there are sites with over a half million page-views per month using it without any issue. I also know that there are some companies that have over 20 operators using LHC at the same time. LHC itself is very flexible, so it can be extended to meet companies business logic (e.g it integrates tightly with the internal software stack companies are using). 

In your opinion, what is the main benefits of having Live Helper Chat in the Bitnami Library?

The main benefit is the simplicity of having LHC running in the cloud in a few minutes. The interesting fact is that I was encouraged to submit Live Helper Chat to Bitnami from the community users themselves- they just wanted to have it running without any hassle.

For an interesting article written by Remigijus on Live Helper Chat's history, click here.

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Sharelock joins the Bitnami Library

Sharelock is now a part of the Bitnami library!

Sharelock is an open source Node.js based project that provides you with a simple and secure way to share secrets. Enter your secret and a list of emails or twitter handles for people that can access your secret. Sharelock encrypts all this and presents you a URL (a sharelock). The URL incorporates your encrypted secret, and it’s the only place it exists. Send the sharelock using any public or private channel, and if recipients can authenticate themselves, they can see the secret. You can also host your own version of Sharelock.

Sharelock is now ready to install in a few clicks with the Bitnami Sharelock installers (available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X), Virtual Machine images (VMs) and Amazon EC2, Google and Windows Azure cloud images.


Once you have Sharelock running, you must create an Auth0 account. Follow this quick guide and configure the options below in the "/opt/bitnami/apps/sharelock/htdocs/.env" file:


AUTH0_DOMAIN = mydomain

AUTH0_CLIENT_ID = 
AUTH0_CLIENT_SECRET = 
AUTH0_CALLBACK= http://example.com/callback

We also had the opportunity to interview Tomasz Janczuk, Maintainer of the project, who was kind enough to answer some of our questions:

What is the goal of the Sharelock application?

At Auth0 (and in our personal lives) we’re constantly exchanging bits of confidential information. Because we take security so seriously, we didn’t feel comfortable sharing that information through normal channels like email or chat so we created Sharelock as an OSS project that provides a simple and secure way to share those secrets. Our hope is that people take advantage of Sharelock as the default way to share information like passwords, credit card numbers and more. 

What are some of the features of Sharelock?

Anyone can use Sharelock via the web (at sharelock.io) or download apps for Mac and Android. You can type any secret up to 500 characters and share with people using a whole domain (to share with multiple people), an email, or even a twitter handle. And, Sharelock is an OSS project so you can modify the source code to use your own signature or encryption keys as desired. 

Which projects or organizations are using Sharelock?  What kind of projects do they use it for?

Sharelock usage has been heavily driven by individuals in over 100 different countries who, like us, were looking for an easy and secure way to share their secrets. Since Sharelock is an OSS project, we’re excited to see what other places it will show up in the future. 

What do you expect will be the main benefits of having Bitnami packages available for Sharelock?

Bitnami packages will make it even easier to set up Sharelock instances with custom cryptographic keys. Whether people are looking for a more secure way to pass bits of information back and forth within their own apps, or just looking to test, Bitnami will make it super easy for users to get going. 


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