PostgreSQL supports for Bitnami Docker Redmine

We are thrilled to announce that the Bitnami Docker Redmine container has been recently released with support for PostgreSQL databases. 

Selecting between MariaDB or PostgreSQL is now possible via the following environment variables:

- REDMINE_DB_MYSQL
- REDMINE_DB_POSTGRES

You can use the following docker-compose.yml file to deploy our Bitnami Redmine container using a PostgreSQL database:

version: '2'
services:
  postgresql:
    image: 'bitnami/postgresql:latest'
    volumes:
      - 'postgresql_data:/bitnami/postgresql'
  redmine:
    image: 'bitnami/redmine:latest'
    ports:
      - '80:3000'
    environment:
      - REDMINE_DB_POSTGRES=postgresql
    volumes:
      - 'redmine_data:/bitnami/redmine'
    depends_on:
      - postgresql
volumes:
  postgresql_data:
    driver: local
  redmine_data:
    driver: local

Test it by running the following commands:

$ git clone https://github.com/bitnami/bitnami-docker-redmine
$ cd bitnami-docker-redmine
$ docker-compose -f docker-compose-postgresql.yml up

If you'd like to find the Redmine Docker Compose files for both MariaDB and PostgreSQL databases, please check the Bitnami Docker Redmine repository.

In addition, the stable Redmine Helm chart has also been updated to support this new feature. You can read more on how to deploy your Redmine application on top of a Kubernetes cluster using Helm in the Kubernetes Charts repository.

If you have any other questions in regards to Bitnami containers, Kubernetes, or Helm Charts, feel free to check out or documention at docs.bitnami.com or ask one of our engineers at community.bitnami.com!

New Bitnami GitLab Stack 7.11.4 released, now with PostgreSQL

We're happy to announce that GitLab 7.11.4 is now available in Bitnami! This version is now configured with PostreSQL database by default.

What is GitLab? GitLab is a popular Git repository management tool with unique features such as advanced authentication levels, the ability to "protect" a branch, and a feature that allows the attachment of any file to any issue/comment for enhanced collaboration.

This community-loved, enterprise ready manager makes reviewing code and tracking issues easy with activity feeds and wikis. For continuous integration and delivery it also comes with GitLab Cl to better test, build, and deploy your code.

Git hosting has never been easier with this fast-evolving platform, so check out GitLab today!

Gitlab is also ready to install in a few clicks with the Bitnami Gitlab Installers for Linux, Virtual Machine images (VMs), Cloud Images for Amazon EC2, Azure and Google Cloud Platform.

Bitnami Open Source Leaders Interview Series: Dave Page from PostgreSQL

Billing itself as the "world's most advanced open source database", PostgreSQL is bundled with many of our most popular Bitnami apps, including our LAPP stack, Dev Pack, OpenERP/Odoo, Discourse and more. To kick off our new Open Source Leaders podcast series, we interviewed Dave Page, the Director of PostgreSQL Europe, to learn more about the PosgreSQL database and what's to come from the project.

Here are just a few of the topics we covered:

How does the PostgreSQL community work?

Why should one be involved in the community?

What is next for PostgreSQL?  

How does PostgreSQL stack up next to no-SQL leaders?

Does PostgreSQL work on the cloud?

What level of experience do you need run PostgreSQL?

You can launch a PostgreSQL application or stack to the cloud with Bitnami for free, or download any of our free native installers or VMs to run the software locally. Get started in the cloud for free with a $200 credit from Microsoft Azure. You can browse a full list of Bitnami app stacks that contain PostgreSQL on the Bitnami site.

Stuart Langridge:        This is the Bitnami Open Source Leaders series of interviews.  I’m Stuart Lankridge and I’m here talking to Dave Page.  Dave is Director of PostgreSQL Europe, Vice Chair of the PostgreSQL Community of Canada, he’s chief architect of Tools and Installs at EnterpriseDB and he’s a core team member of the PostgreSQL project.  Hey Dave, welcome to the interview.

David Page:                Thank you, Stuart nice to talk to you.

Stuart Langridge:        So what is Postgres? 

David Page:                Postgres is an open source relational database management system. We compete mostly with the likes of Oracle and SQL Server.  It’s a completely open source permissive license.  We have a very large community that are both using Postgres and submitting patches on a regular basis.  So we’re pretty diverse in the things that Postgres supports because we have this large community of people from all sorts of different areas and different industries helping us build the product and add support for all sorts of useful features.

Stuart Langridge:        You talked there about the size and diversity of the community.  Is Postgres targeting a particular use case or does it do everything from small data storage up to huge data stores?

Ruby Stack: Now streamlined with PostgreSQL and Node.js options

We are excited to announce a new version of BitNami Ruby Stack!

Ruby Stack is a self-contained, easy to use distribution that makes it simple to get started developing and deploying Ruby On Rails applications. To get started with BitNami Ruby Stack, you can download free, ready-to-run installers for Linux,Windows and Mac OS X, virtual machine images (VMs) and cloud images for the Amazon and Azure clouds.

This release adds PostgreSQL as a database server option. The release also optionally installs the Node.js runtime as part of your development environment.

Another great new feature in the native installers is the option to customize your environment by installing only the components that you plan to use so that you may have the minimal Ruby environment you need for web development.

BitNami Ruby Stack includes Apache, Nginx, MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL, ImageMagick, Passenger, Thin, Redis, Varnish Cache server, Sphinx, RVM, DevKit, Subversion, Git, etc. It also includes Node.js and PHP as additional runtimes.

With Ruby Stack, you can now select which web and database servers you want to use. If you choose, you can install phpMyAdmin and/or phpPgAdmin applications to manage your database server. You may want to install additional components like a version control and source code management tool like Subversion or Git, a cache server like Varnish, a search server like Sphinx or a data structure server like Redis.

Ruby Stack is an all-in-one package that provides everything that you need to get started with Ruby development, while letting you choose only the components you want.

Security fix for Django, new versions 1.4.7 and 1.5.3 released

Django project has just released new versions of Django. These releases address a directory-traversal vulnerability in one of Django's built-in template tags. While this issue requires some fairly specific factors to be exploitable, Django project encourages all users of Django to upgrade promptly.

We have released BitNami Django 1.4.7 and 1.5.3 installers, virtual machines and Amazon EC2 and Windows Azure cloud images that fix this issue.

BitNami Django stacks also ship the recently released PostgreSQL database version 9.3.0 and PostGIS 2.1.0.

If you have already installed a previous version of these applications please make sure that you update your environment or apply the appropriate patches.

New BitNami Development Stacks with PHP 5.4.14 released

We are happy to announce that all of the BitNami PHP-based development stacks have been updated to include PHP 5.4.14, Apache 2.4.4, MySQL 5.5.30 and PostgreSQL 9.2.4 support. BitNami stacks provide pre-configured, ready to run bundles for your favorite server applications and development environments.

You can download LAMP stack for Linux, MAMP stack for OS X and WAMP stack for Windows to develop PHP-based applications on your Desktop, using your favorite Operating System. There are also Ubuntu-based virtual machines available for download and cloud images to deploy on Azure or Amazon EC2 directly.

We also upgraded the PostgreSQL based stacks to the the latest stable version, PostgreSQL 9.2.4, that fixes a security vulnerability. You can download LAPP, MAPP and WAPP stacks as native installers, virtual machine images and cloud images for Azure and Amazon EC2.


If you develop with both databases MySQL and PostgreSQL, you can also install the PostgreSQL module on top of your current LAMP, WAMP or MAMP stack.

LAMP stack manager tool running on Linux

LAMP virtual machine

Django 1.5 beta: GeoDjango support for PostGIS 2.0. Now all-in-one with BitNami.

The Django development team has recently released the first beta of the upcoming major version of the framework, Django 1.5. At BitNami, one of our goals is to simplify the testing of the latest versions of open source web applications and language runtimes. We are happy to announce that we have just also released our first BitNami DjangoStack with 1.5. It is completely self-contained and it will not conflict with your current development environment. You can download it, give a try and safely remove it when you are done.

Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design. If you are not familiar already with BitNami DjangoStack, it is a free packaging offering that simplifies the development and deployment of Django and Python applications.This version includes ready-to-run versions of Apache 2.2 with mod_wsgi 3.3, SQLite 3.7, MySQL 5.5, PostgreSQL 9.2 with PostGIS 2.0 (only of Linux and Mac OS X), Python 2.7 and Django 1.5. It can be deployed using all-in-one free native installers (for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows), virtual machines and Amazon Cloud Images.

The biggest new feature in Django 1.5 is the configurable User model. You can check the release notes for this version here.

Another important new feature is that GeoDjango now supports PostGIS 2.0, which is already bundled in the BitNami DjangoStack. GeoDjango makes it simple to create geographic Web applications, like location-based services. You can now check our GeoDjango Quickstart guide for details on how to use GeoDjango with PostGIS 2.0 on BitNami DjangoStack.

As a reminder, our bi-weekly contest is now open to Python web applications. If there is any application that you would like to see added to the BitNami Library visit our contest page. You can vote for the applications in our contest or also summit new applications.

New BitNami PHP 5.4 xAMP stacks

We are happy to announce that all of the BitNami PHP-based development stacks have been updated to include PHP 5.4, Apache 2.4 and PostgreSQL 9.2 support. 

You can download LAMP stack for Linux, MAMP stack for OS X and WAMP stack for Windows to develop PHP-based applications on your Desktop, using your favorite Operating System. There are also virtual machines available for download and cloud images to deploy them on Amazon EC2 directly. They ship the following main components:

• PHP 5.4.8
• Apache 2.4.3
• MySQL 5.5.21
• phpMyAdmin 3.5.3
• Optional frameworks:
• ZendFramework 2.0.3
• CodeIgniter 2.1.3
• Symfony 2.1.3
• CakePHP 2.2.3
• Smarty 3.1.12
• Laravel 3.2.11

We have also upgraded the PostgreSQL based stacks to the the latest stable version, PostgreSQL 9.2.0. Because the LAPP, MAPP and WAPP stacks are available as native installers, virtual machine images and AMIs, you can develop on a local machine natively or in a virtual environment and then deploy the application to Amazon EC2 for testing and production.

BitNami has a popular module-based system. You can easily install additional BitNami applications on top of the LAMP, MAMP and WAMP stacks. Check our documentation to know how to add WordPress, Joomla!, Drupal, SugarCRM and other popular apps on top of these stacks.

BitNami PHP-based modules for LAMP, MAMP and WAMP stacks

Updated BitNami AMP Stacks for PHP development

We have just released updated versions of all of the BitNami AMP Stacks, which include a number of major updates and additions. If you are not familiar with the term, "AMP" stands for Apache-MySQL-PHP. The name of each BitNami AMP Stack depends on the operating system; there is WAMP for Windows, MAMP for OS X and LAMP for Linux.

We also release "APP" versions of these stacks, which include the PostgreSQL database instead of MySQL. As with the AMP Stacks, the APP Stacks are named differently for each operating system: WAPP for Windows, MAPP for OS X and LAPP for Linux.

All of the above BitNami Stacks have been updated to include the latest stable releases of their major components, which are listed below. We also offer development versions of the stacks which bundle beta or brand-new releases of the components. They are great for trying out the latest and greatest new releases in a contained environment.

• Apache 2.2.22  (or 2.4.3 in the development version)
• PHP 5.3.16  (or 5.4.6 in the development version)
• MySQL 5.5.21
• phpMyAdmin 3.5.2.2
• PostgreSQL 9.1.3 (optional)
• phpPgAdmin 5.0.4 (optional)

In addition to the above, the stacks bundle the following PHP frameworks for development:

• ZendFramework 1.12.0
• Symfony 2.0.17
• CakePHP 2.2.1
• CodeIgniter 2.1.2
• Smarty 3.1.11

Smarty is a new addition to the stacks with this latest release. It is a template engine for PHP, facilitating the separation of presentation (HTML/CSS) from application logic. This implies that PHP code is application logic, and is separated from the presentation.

Check our new Quick Start Guide to know how to start with BitNami AMP/APP Stacks.

Welcome page

Applications page

As usual, the BitNami AMP Stacks are available in the form of ready-to-run installers, virtual machine images (VMs) and Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) for the Amazon Cloud. You can also get simplified deployment and management of AMP / APP development environments in the cloud with BitNami Cloud Hosting. Sign up for our free developer plan to check it out!

BitNami is Coming to Windows Azure!

In connection with Microsoft’s release of new Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) capabilities to its cloud platform, we are very happy to announce that we are bringing your favorite BitNami apps to Windows Azure! In the very near future, we will be publishing two free images for Windows Azure, one focused on web development platforms and another with development environments.

The first image, BitNami DevPack,  provides an instant development environment for some of the most popular web development runtimes and servers, including PHP, Django, Ruby on Rails, Tomcat, MySQL, PostgreSQL and dozens of others. Everything you need to get started developing and hosting your own applications on Windows Azure is included in BitNami DevPack.

The other image, BitNami WebPack, includes ready to run versions of three of the most popular open source blog and CMS engines: WordPress, Drupal and Joomla!. It allows you to deploy full-featured websites in minutes which you can later customize with thousands of plugins and addons available for these platforms.

As with all BitNami Stacks, BitNami WebPack and DevPack for Azure are completely configured and ready-to-run, so you can have them up and running in minutes.

Sign up to be the among the first to know when these new images are available at: http://bitnami.org/azure.