Bitnami stacks are available for web applications such as
WordPress,
Drupal,
Joomla!,
Redmine, AbanteCart,
PrestaShop,
Magento,
MediaWiki and many others. In addition to the application itself, the stacks include the other software required to run that application. For example, a WordPress stack will include WordPress, as well as the MySQL database to manage data, Apache Web server to serve the pages,
OpenSSL library for basic
cryptographic functions and
PhpMyAdmin to administer MySQL. Bitnami installers are released under the
Apache License 2.0. Using automated
cloud computing management, Bitnami offers users automated application deployments of open source server apps from
IBM Cloud,
Oracle Cloud,
Amazon EC2,
Azure and
Google Cloud Platform servers. Since July 2009 Bitnami also offers ready-to-run
virtual machines that contain a minimal and configured
Linux operating system. Bitnami offers open source applications as modules for
XAMPP package developed by Apache Friends. The distinct difference between installation of Bitnami installers and native installs (e.g. rpms and debs on Linux) are that they are installed in a way as to prevent interference with existing software and libraries. If multiple applications are installed on the same web server considerations for resolving conflicts on specific ports must be made. On February 13, 2009, Bitnami announced the release of the Enano CMS web stack, which is unique in that, according to Bitnami and to the Enano CMS Project, the stack module was the first to be externally developed. In February 2010, Bitnami announced the release of Bitnami Cloud Hosting a service that allows deploying Bitnami stacks on the
Amazon EC2 cloud, with automatic monitoring and backups. Since 2019, Bitnami has been part of
VMware. VMware announced its intent to acquire Bitnami and proceeded on May 15, 2019. ==See also==