Broadcom Ends Free Bitnami Images, Forcing Users To Find Alternatives

This week, users of Helm and other cloud native open source projects will have to find other free sources for their pre-compiled production-ready application images and Helm Charts. As of Monday, Broadcom has revamped its image download program, narrowing the free downloads available in favor of a smaller number of resources mostly available under a commercial license.

Users of many open source applications have been hard hit by the change.

The Impact on Open Source Application Users

Many administrators, however, have baked the Bitnami into…