Horizontally Scale Your MongoDB Deployment with Bitnami, Kubernetes and Helm

Do you need a solid, scalable NoSQL foundation for your production applications? And do you run a Kubernetes environment? If your answer to both these questions is "yes", then this blog post is for you.

MongoDB is a popular, document-oriented NoSQL database system, used by some of the largest companies in the world and tuned to deliver high performance without any loss of flexibility. And Bitnami...

Create a Fault-Tolerant and Scalable Elasticsearch Cluster with Bitnami and Helm

Elasticsearch is a powerful open source search engine that makes it easy to execute both structured and unstructured searches on data. It is also highly scalable, enabling you to perform real-time searches across hundreds of thousands of documents without sacrificing speed or quality.

Bitnami now offers an Elasticsearch Helm chart that makes it easy to deploy Elasticsearch in Kubernetes-based production...

Migrating .NET Core applications to the cloud with Stacksmith. Part 2: Packaging for Azure and Kubernetes

In this post I walk you through the process of packaging a .NET Core application for Microsoft Azure as well as Kubernetes.

This is the second post of a set of two blog posts in which we are covering the whole process to prepare, package, migrate, and deploy a .NET Core application to the cloud using Stacksmith.

The first part of this article, Migrating .NET Core Applications to the cloud with...

Migrating .NET Core applications to the cloud with Stacksmith. Part 1: Preparing the application

.NET Core is a subset of the .NET framework, but unlike .NET, it is cross platform. This means that .NET Core applications can be run on any operating system - Linux, Windows, or macOS

Bitnami Stacksmith is a tool that automates packaging and optimizes your application for deployment in clouds as well as in containers. It can be used in new application development (as I demonstrate here) as well...

Deploy and scale a Redis cluster on Kubernetes with Bitnami and Helm

Redis is an open source in-memory remote database that supports many different data structures: strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, and more. It can be used as a database, a cache, and a message broker.

This makes Redis a good choice to produce a platform for solving problems that other databases can't, such as communication between components and languages.

Bitnami has released a Helm...

Deploy a Production-Ready MariaDB Cluster on Kubernetes with Bitnami and Helm

MariaDB is a popular, open source relational database management system that is widely used for enterprise applications and mission-critical use cases. One of its key features is data replication, which allows data to be mirrored across multiple nodes. This feature increases application resilience, ensuring that applications can easily recover from system failures and avoid critical data loss.

Scaling Wordpress In Kubernetes

Cloud Native applications have been designed to be run in microservices architecture where individual components can be scaled separately, data is persisted and sync across replicas and node failures can be easily survived. This can be more tricky with traditional web applications that have not been designed this way, such as WordPress.

Bitnami produces production-ready Docker images and Kubernetes...

Bitnami Stacksmith, now with Support for Microsoft Azure

Bitnami and Microsoft announced today the inclusion of Microsoft Azure support in Stacksmith. This represents a significant effort, and the addition of this platform opens up a lot of great possibilities. I want to share some key points of this integration with you. But first, for those of you unfamiliar with Stacksmith, here is a brief overview.

Bitnami Stacksmith is an easy to use SaaS tool that...

Build a Scalable, Production-Ready Data Store with Bitnami's Cassandra Cluster

Apache Cassandra is an open source distributed database management system, providing high availability with no single point of failure. However, setting up a Cassandra cluster for use in a production environment, with all the attendant requirements of security, scalability and high availability, can be a complex task.

That's where the Cassandra Cluster by Bitnami comes in. This solution, now available...

Build your applications at any scale, on any platform with Bitnami Jenkins Cluster

Times in software development are quickly changing. While in the past, software projects could take years, today an application can be built, deployed, and offered for sale in just a few months.

This new trend is possible thanks to concepts such as Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD). These terms refer to the ability of automating all software development processes. Committing...