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Comment · 1 year ago
Let me rewrite the comparison used in the "Example: Using Bitnami vs. Minimus" section of the blog post:

Using Bitnami Secure Images: You pull a versioned PostgreSQL image built on a minimal-attack-surface OS (Photon). When a CVE is disclosed or a new upstream version is released, Bitnami’s automation takes care of everything: a new container image (and Helm chart, if applicable) is built, tested, and published to your registry within hours. All you need to do is update to the latest version; no manual CVE monitoring, triage, or patching required.

Comment · 1 year ago
Just to be crystal clear about the open source part: the code for all container images will continue to be maintained, kept up to date, and publicly accessible on GitHub (https://github.com/bitnami/containers) under the Apache 2 license.

What Bitnami is discontinuing is the publishing of prebuilt images to public registries. However, the build code remains available, so users can still build the images themselves and push them to their own registries by running a couple of commands.

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Comment · 1 year ago
Projects like Sealed Secrets and minideb remain unaffected by these changes. Container images for both projects will continue to be released on Docker Hub (docker.io/bitnami) as usual, without any modifications.

The source code will continue to be available for containers, allowing you to build them from source and future versions as well. The Stacksmith tarballs will also remain available.

The planned action is to stop providing the already built containers on Docker Hub.

Comment · 1 year ago
That's what Bitnami Secure Images comes to solve. Bitnami regularly updates its images with the latest system packages; however, certain CVEs may persist until they are patched in the OS (Debian 12) or the application itself. Additionally, some CVEs remain unfixed due to the absence of available patches. In vulnerability scanners like Trivy, you can use the `--ignore-unfixed` flag to ignore such CVEs.

In the case of Bitnami Secure Image, the underlying distro is PhotonOS, which is oriented to have zero CVEs.

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The source code for Bitnami containers and Helm charts remains publicly available on GitHub and continues to be licensed under Apache 2.

What’s changing is that Bitnami will no longer publish the full catalog of container images to DockerHub. If you need any image, you can still build/package it yourself from the open-source GitHub repositories.

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