We have recently shipped a graphical tool to simply the servers management in AMP & APP Stacks for Linux, OS X and Windows. The BitNami Manager Tool is a simple graphical interface that can start and stop the BitNami servers that are located in the same installation directory. To start the utility, double click the file named ‘manager-windows’,‘manager-linux’ or ‘manager-osx’ from your file browser.

The use of the tool is pretty easy. There are buttons to start, stop and restart each… more

We have just released LAMP Stacks (Apache, MySQL and PHP) and LAPP Stacks (Apache, PostgreSQL and PHP) for Linux 64 bits. You can download and install these Stacks for any Linux 64 bits distribution. These Stacks are self-contained and independent of your system, very useful for PHP developers. Currently you can deploy all BitNami Linux Stacks in a 64 bits Linux system but it was necessary to install the compatibility libraries. From now on, you can take advantage of your 64 bits system and improve the performance of your web applications. We have also released BitNami PHP modules… more

We’re happy to announce that all of the BitNami PHP-based development stacks have been updated to include PHP 5.3 support. This include both the MySQL-based and PostgreSQL-based stacks. In addition to an updated PHP version, we include the latest release of phpMyAdmin, PEAR components and related libraries, including the much requested mcrypt extension. Because the Stacks are available as native installers, virtual machine images and AMIs, you can develop on a local machine natively or in a virtual environment and then deploy the application to Amazon EC2 for testing and production. This is the list of components and versions included… more

As we announced last week, we’re very excited to be partnering with SugarCRM to offer their Professional and Enterprise editions on BitNami Cloud Hosting. With this partnership, BitNami Cloud Hosting becomes the SugarCRM’s preferred method for deploying its software on the Amazon Cloud. BitNami Cloud Hosting provides solutions providers, resellers and end user organizations with an easy to use platform for deploying and managing both the open source and commercial versions SugarCRM in the cloud. In one click, users can launch new servers,… more

Amazon has recently released AWS CloudFormation , a new service that helps you describe a ‘stack’ of cloud resources and bring them up as a single unit. A CloudFormation stack can include among other resources load balancers, databases, EBS volumes and of course EC2 instances. A stack definition is called a template and can contain configuration information to be passed to the various resources being provisioned. At BitNami, we are pretty excited about CloudFormation and want to make it easy for you to incorporate BitNami stacks to your deployments. We have now CloudFormation templates for all PHP and Ruby on… more

After several months in private beta, we’re excited to announce that BitNami Cloud Hosting is now available! BitNami Cloud Hosting simplifies the process of deploying and managing open source and other applications in the cloud.

• 1-Click Application Deployment: Launch servers with one or more applications or development stacks from the BitNami library in one click. Currently available applications include: SugarCRM, Alfresco, JasperServer, Drupal, Wordpress and many others. You can view a list at: http://bitnami.org/cloud/apps
• Automatic Backups and One Click Server Restores: BitNami Cloud Hosting offers automated backups that can… more

We’re pleased to announce that the BitNami AMP and APP Stacks have just been updated to include the Amazon Web Services (AWS) PHP SDK as well as updated versions of Apache and PostgreSQL (where appropriate). As the Amazon website explains it, "The AWS SDK for PHP makes it easier for developers to build applications that tap into the cost-effective, scalable, and reliable AWS cloud. Using the SDK, developers can build solutions for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon SimpleDB, and more. " By including the Amazon PHP SDK in our Apache +… more

A couple of weeks ago, we released an updated Redmine Stack for Redmine 1.0. If you’re not familiar with Redmine, it is a flexible project management web application. Written using the Ruby on Rails framework, it is cross-platform and cross-database. It includes support for multiple projects, role based access control, issue tracking, a Gantt chart, calendar, wikis, forums, time tracking and more. The 1.0 release of Redmine is a major milestone and we’d like to congratulate and thank everyone in the Redmine project who worked on it. It includes a long list of improvements, such as:

• Subtasks:… more

What if your own in-house applications were as easy to deploy as BitNami stacks? We’re excited to announce that we are now looking for beta users of BitNami Studio, our new offering that enables you to create customized, ready-to-run virtual machine or cloud images for your own internal applications or open source applications in minutes. The goal of BitNami Studio is to make it easy for you to build, clone, edit, and test your own application stacks. It is extremely flexible and allows you to customize each layer of the stack – the application, the runtime, the operating system… more

Now that the beta release of Ruby on Rails 3 is available, we wanted to make it easy for you to check out all of the improvements that have been made. We just released a new version of BitNami RubyStack that allows you to install a complete, ready-to-run Rails 3 environment in just a few clicks. If you choose to install the stack natively, you will be asked if you want to install the Rails 3 gems or not. If you opt out, you will have a stable release of Rails installed and completely configured.
As with all… more