Collecting Community Feedback: New Improvements and Features in Bitnami Helm Charts

So far this year, the Bitnami Content team has merged more than 700 Pull Requests (PR) in our Helm charts GitHub repository. About half of those PRs are mainly external contributions to the most popular solution, the Bitnami WordPress Helm chart.  

The community actively contributes to the Bitnami’s Helm chart catalog improvement by suggesting new features and reporting issues. This is not the first time that we can say how proud we are of our community, since some of our users also contributed in the past by submitting their own Helm charts.   

Meanwhile, the Bitnami Content Team continuing checking both the PRs and issues submitted by users to identify which are the problems they are dealing with and how we can enhance the user experience and providing the most up to date and secure versions of the community’s favorite applications.  

Find below the list of the latest improvements done in our Helm charts catalog. And don’t forget to check Bitnami documentation and visit our Tutorials site to boost your Kubernetes skills! 

Latest Bitnami Helm Charts New Features and Improvements 

WordPress 

• New feature: Refactor WordPress container image and provide support for Multisite Mode 
• Chart version: 11.0.0 
• More info
• Deployment offering

Elasticsearch and Kibana

• New feature: Both Elasticsearch and Kibana license changes. Both are now licensed under the Elastic License. X-Pack is also now included by default on both Elasticsearch and Kibana 
• Chart version: 15.0.0 (Elasticsearch) and 8.0.0 (Kibana) 
• More info: Elasticsearch / Kibana 
• Deployment offering

MinIO 

• New feature: Support to deploy MinIO as a gateway for other storage systems 
• Chart version: 6.4.0 
• More info
• Deployment offering

Etcd 

• New feature: Performance improvements on scalability and stability 
• Chart version: 6.0.0 
• More info
• Deployment offering

InfluxDB 

• New feature: A major upgrade to InfluxDB 2.0 
• Chart version: 2.0.0 
• More info
• Deployment offering

Visit the Bitnami Helm chart repository in GitHub for more information about our charts’ latest versions and improvements or navigate to the Bitnami Application Catalog for deploying the solution of your choice in any Kubernetes platform.  

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Introducing Bitnami's Power User: Ahmed Haque

We have an incredible community of developers that continue to support our mission of making awesome software available to everyone. In addition to our popular community forum, Bitnami receives valuable user experience feedback everyday. Some community members even go so far as to include our application and deployment stacks on their blogs as deployment best practices.

Ahmed Haque, Lead Software Engineer at SensoDx Inc., impressed us with an awesome two-part tutorial about how to deploy a MEAN application on Amazon's EC2. Read more about Ahmed’s Bitnami user journey, and check out his articles.

What projects are you currently working on? 

Right now, I've got two major projects taking up my time. The first is one I'm working on as part of my dissertation. In this project, I'm creating a web and mobile interface that collects biomarker information from blood analysis, information from consumer health devices, and self-reported data -- to provide patients with a comprehensive perspective on their overall risk of disease. The idea is that by aggregating information from both laboratories and mobile health applications, we can offer patients a better snapshot of their overall health and hopefully motivate them towards wellness. The second project is more of a side-gig. Having worked with many of the non-profit organizations in my city, I've come to realize that information regarding services for the homeless are often disparate, disorganized, and extremely hard to find. Even if there are dozens of groups offering to help those-in-need -- comprehensive information about schedules, locations, and the range of services provided is heavily lacking. I'm currently developing an interactive web application that intuitively consolidates information on every nonprofit in the city, so folks can get the information they need quickly. For both these projects, having the Bitnami MEAN stack means I can focus more on the actual applications and less on the process of setting up servers.

Why use Bitnami? 

I first stumbled into the Bitnami MEAN stack in the AWS Marketplace about six months ago, while working on a demo app for my PhD. At the time, I was fairly new to the idea of deploying web applications as a whole, but needed a solution quickly. Though I had completed many tutorials on the MEAN stack, read my share of Javascript books, and had spent hours on Stack Overflow -- the process of getting my app onto a server still seemed completely mysterious to me. The Bitnami MEAN stack came super handy, because it offered a one-stop solution for deploying my app onto Amazon EC2.

Do you have any favorite stacks/apps? 

So far, I've had great success with the Bitnami MEAN stack in AWS. I'm also looking forward to branching out and trying the Wordpress, Ghost, and Magento stacks as well.


We love to hear hear from our users, and 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!

Security fix for Magento: 1.9.1.0-2 released

A critical vulnerability remote code execution vulnerability in Magento was recently published. You can view the SUPEE-5344 patch that addresses the flaws here, which was released on February 9, 2015.

We have released Bitnami Magento 1.9.1.0-2 installers, virtual machines and Amazon EC2, Google and Windows Azure cloud images that fix this issue. If you already have a running version of Bitnami Magento, you can apply the fix directly.

1. Download the SUPEE-5344 patch
2. Upload the patch to the server
3. Copy the patch to "/opt/bitnami/apps/magento/htdocs"
4. Execute the patch:

$ chmod 755 PATCH_SUPEE-5344_CE_1.8.0.0_v1-2015-02-10-08-10-38.sh

$ ./PATCH_SUPEE-5344_CE_1.8.0.0_v1-2015-02-10-08-10-38.sh

Checking if patch can be applied/reverted successfully...

Patch was applied/reverted successfully.

Once that is done, refresh the cache in the Admin under "System > Cache Management" so that the changes will be reflected.

If you have any questions, please post to our community forum and our team will help you there.