Bitnami applications and stacks are pre-configured and ready-to-use immediately on any platform. The Bitnami application catalog delivers the applications businesses need in the required formats and are optimized to run locally as virtual machines and in the cloud as click-to-deploy images for AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle, Docker containers and even Kubernetes helm charts. The application catalog includes hundreds of popular software packages that can be installed in minutes on any virtualization platform.
Bitnami continuously monitors and updates every application in our catalog including its components and dependencies to ensure our applications and development stacks are always up-to-date and secure.
Bitnami Alternatives & Comparisons
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WHAT ARE SOME ALTERNATIVES TO BITNAMI?
Docker
The Docker Platform is the industry-leading container platform for continuous, high-velocity innovation, enabling organizations to seamlessly build and share any application — from legacy to what comes next — and securely run them anywhere
Heroku
Heroku is a cloud application platform – a new way of building and deploying web apps. Heroku lets app developers spend 100% of their time on their application code, not managing servers, deployment, ongoing operations, or scaling.
DigitalOcean
We take the complexities out of cloud hosting by offering blazing fast, on-demand SSD cloud servers, straightforward pricing, a simple API, and an easy-to-use control panel.
XAMPP
It consists mainly of the Apache HTTP Server, MariaDB database, and interpreters for scripts written in the PHP and Perl programming languages.
MAMP
It can be installed under macOS and Windows with just a few clicks. It provides them with all the tools they need to run WordPress on their desktop PC for testing or development purposes, for example. It doesn’t matter if you prefer Apache or Nginx or if you want to work with PHP, Python, Perl or Ruby.
Bitnami Pros and Cons
Pros
- “Bitnami is really a great tool for WordPress and accessing it offline.”
- “Overall our experience has been good. The community is one nice feature.”
- “Bitnami makes it easy and helps our engineers get software needed for their job duties. It is one of the more simpler solutions.”
- “Very very useful if you are templating your basic profile of a Virtual machine for drupal distribution.”
Cons
- “I do not have any issue with the system crash or else. It is just I am new and find myself clumsy to operate the server.”
- “Sometimes it can be difficult to find the files stored on the server or find the command to manipulate the server properly.”
- “Not all applications can be installed locally to perform micro tests, and at low cost. It is required to have an infrastructure in cloud, Azure, AWS or other.”
- “Its use is limited, it provides products of small size and robustness.”
The Bottom Line
Bitnami is really a great tool for WordPress and accessing it offline. Because right now, I am building my own blog site and it is a good thing I can preview it already on a browser without even publishing. As a beginner in WordPress, it takes a lot of time to get to know the codes, plugins and the themes which works best for the intended output.
As opposed to drag and drop website builders like Wix and Simplesite, which are convenient to use if you want to avoid learning a bit of technical stuff, this tool allows you to literally mess around especially with the codes without even affecting the real website you are intending to build. Like me, I go through a lot of revisions especially when new ideas come up, and this works perfectly too without any issues for browsers that I’ve tried with (Edge, Chrome, Opera, and Firefox) when doing the preview. In addition, installing those WordPress plugins and themes doesn’t seem to affect its performance.
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