Run your Minecraft server in the cloud with CraftBukkit and BItnami

If you are a Minecraft player, you are in luck! We are happy to announce that CraftBukkit Minecraft server is now available on Bitnami! Yes, Minecraft is a bit of a departure for us, but the avid Minecraft gamers here were pining for it. Surely if we wanted it, at least one other gamer would....

CraftBukkit provides a modified Minecraft server that we've, in turn, used to make Minecraft available on Bitnami. You can download the Virtual Machine for VMware or VirtualBox or deploy your CraftBukkit Minecraft server in Amazon EC2 or Azure cloud platforms to have your own server and start playing Minecraft easily.

Minecraft player

If you use a cloud instance, you should open the 25565/TCP port in your firewall. You can find a quick guide to know how to connect your Minecraft client to the server here.

Bitnami CraftBukkit Minecraft server also contains a World Map that you can access from your browser directly.

CraftBukkit Minecraft server map

If you do not have an Amazon AWS account, you can play for free in a micro instance during one year thanks to the Amazon Free Usage Tier.

If you have a small group of players you can start with a micro instance but if your world start growing and you want to have more players, you can resize your instance to get the best performance. The Bitnami CraftBukkit Minecraft server options will be changed automatically to adapt your server to the instance type.

CraftBukkit server uses screen to run the server. You can run any command in the server easily, it is only necessary to start the "craftbukkit_console" script to log in the server screen session.

CraftBukkit Minecraft server console

Getting started with CraftBukkit Minecraft server in the cloud with Bitnami!

WordPress 3.8 now available on Bitnami

WordPress 3.8, nicknamed "Parker" (after Charlie Parker), with its beautiful new design, is now available from Bitnami. If you are already using a Bitnami WordPress image, you can simply upgrade your version from the admin panel.

Not familiar with Bitnami WordPress? In short, it is the easiest way to install your own wordpress instance. We've packaged Wordpress up as a self-contained, incredibly fast distribution that makes it simple to deploy. To get started with Bitnami WordPress, you can download free, ready-to-run installers for Linux,Windows and Mac OS X or our virtual machine images (VMs). Or, if you want to have a hosted Wordpress, you can deploy Bitnami Wordpress into the cloud via the Amazon and Azure clouds.

Sounds too good to be true, right? Give it a try. You can also launch a free cloud demo server and in minutes have a fully configured Wordpress 3.8 instance up and running.

Some of the most important features of WordPress 3.8 include:

- It brings a fresh new look to the entire admin dashboard. Gone are overbearing gradients and dozens of shades of grey. It uses the Open Sans typeface that provides a simple and friendly text.

New WordPress 3.8 Dashboard

- New vector-based icons that scale to your screen. By ditching pixels, pages load significantly faster, too.
- It ships eight new admin color schemes.
- New theme management
- New Twenty Fourteen theme, a sleek new magazine theme.

Twenty Fourteen theme

Get started with new WordPress easily with Bitnami Wordpress stacks.

New BitNami Alfresco 4.2.c released

We are happy to announce a new BitNami Alfresco Stack version: 4.2.c. BitNami Alfresco provides all-in-one free native installers, virtual machines and Amazon Cloud Images that simplify Alfresco installation. 

In addition to the stacks, we also simplify hosting and management of Alfresco in the cloud with our BitNami Cloud Hosting one-click deployment service. Sign up for our free developer plan to check it out.

This version contains the following components:

• Alfresco 4.2.c
• JDK 1.7.0_09
• Apache Tomcat 7.0.33
• LibreOffice 3.5.4

Enjoy! 

Alfresco administrator dashboard

LibreOffice document viewer

BitNami Redmine Stack now available in Spanish and Japanese!

Hello! ¡Hola! こんにちは!

We have been working on a lot of exciting new features and improvements for BitNami and BitNami Cloud Hosting that we will be releasing over the next few weeks. Today we are really happy to announce support for Japanese and Spanish for one of our most popular stacks: Redmine is a great project management tool that is both flexible and easy to use. The new language support means that the whole installation process and application setup have been localized, making Redmine more accessible than ever for users that are not fluent in English. This is the first of many stacks to be localized. If you are interested in helping with the effort, or would like to see a specific stack localized, please let us know.  We want to thank Sakai Kei for his help with the Japanese translation.

Screen capture of the installer running in Japanese mode

Redmine habla español!