Our September Bitnami Power User: Bob Stolzberg

We sat down with Bob Stolzberg of CenturyLink, a Principal Engineer (and avid fan of Bitnami's JBoss and Tomcat Blueprints) whom we worked with closely during our Bitnami Blueprints launch on the CenturyLink Cloud. After learning about our ‘Power Users’ monthly feature he contacted our COO directly to express how much he loves Bitnami resources. Naturally, we jumped at the chance to offer Bob our September Power User spot!

Bob is the ultimate evangelist. If there is ever a chance to utilize our web apps and stacks on a daily basis around the CenturyLink office he is the first one to recommend us. Check out a helpful blog post he recently authored, “Spinning Up Servers and Performance Monitoring in Minutes.”

He kindly got on the phone to walk our team through CenturyLink’s amazingly optimized Cloud Platform where our Bitnami Blueprints live. It’s incredibly easy for CenturyLink fans to navigate and deploy Bitnami Blueprints on their cloud platform, which made them a natural fit for a Bitnami partnership. The Bitnami Team is stoked to present Bob’s Power User Q&A. Read on and learn more about one of our favorite CenturyLink engineers, Bob Stolzberg:

What is your occupation? 

Principal Engineer at CenturyLink

What are your hobbies? 

In my spare time I enjoy hunting, fishing, metal detecting and spending time with my family.

Why did you start using Bitnami, and for what purposes? 

I started using Bitnami to automate the installation and configuration of a stack through Blueprints on the CenturyLink Cloud. A developer can rapidly ‘spin-up’ a LAMP stack (for example) in a low-cost environment, craft a blueprint that calls the Bitnami Blueprint as a base (everything is scalable and interactive), and have their customer information automatically configured every time. It’s very apparent that, much like CenturyLink, Bitnami is focused on speed and productivity.

What projects are you currently working on? 

Lots. :) Recently, I was involved in the task of helping to integrate Bitnami Blueprints with the CenturyLink Cloud. The magic of [CenturyLink’s] control panel is that you can easily/quickly configure and download Blueprints in under 1 minute. It was a fun project to work on as I’m a personal fan of both.

Do you have any favorite stacks/apps in the Bitnami Library? 

LAMP, MEAN, WAMP, Magento, Piwik, WordPress. Most recently I deployed Piwik to share project updates with a small team of developers and contractors inside CenturyLink.

How do you evangelize the Bitnami brand to peers/friends? 

I tell all of my friends and coworkers about Bitnami whenever I’m provided the opportunity. Just makes life simple and incredibly easy to install software.

We love to hear hear from our users, and we would love to hear about your personal experience with Bitnami as well. Feel free to reach out to us, and you might just be the next Bitnami Power User!

We’ve partnered with CenturyLink to Bring Bitnami to the Blueprint Library

The quality, consistency and ease of deployment that you’ve come to expect from Bitnami applications are now available in CenturyLink’s Blueprint Library as Bitnami Blueprints.

CenturyLink has created the Blueprints Library to solve the most time consuming problems related to deploying an app to the cloud. CenturyLink Blueprints are fully-configured, ready-to-run apps that eliminate problems related to misconfiguration and mismanagement. The Blueprints provide a template that offers a deployable configuration that can bring a new environment online in a couple of clicks. Blueprints provide customers with multiple options for how to run their software, and CenturyLink has the speed and agility to perfectly orchestrate and automate the entire process. CenturyLink customers can now deploy a Blueprint on their cloud just as easily as launching an app through our various Bitnami Launchpads.

As part of our partnership, CenturyLink customers now have the exclusive ability to choose from over 100 ready-to-run Bitnami Blueprints, providing options to run software fast and in different ways for perfect orchestration and automation. Regardless if you’re deploying and configuring 1 or 10 servers, CenturyLink customers now have the scalability to work on anything.

Much like Bitnami applications, Bitnami Blueprints are:

• Pre-compiled and pre-configured with all necessary dependencies so that they work out-of-the-box
• Quick and easy to install; simply sign into your CenturyLink account and select the Bitnami Cloud Blueprint of your choice
• The most secure and bug-free versions available

For more information about CenturyLink’s Blueprint solutions, visit CenturyLink.

1. Sign up for a free trial or log in to your CenturyLink control panel
2. Select a Bitnami Blueprint from the list of available Bitnami Blueprints
3. Configure your server settings and hit the "Deploy Blueprint" button
4. Sit back and relax as your Bitnami Blueprint server is configured

Have questions about Bitnami Blueprints, or just plain stuck? Feel free to post to our community forum, and we’re happy to help!