Bitnami is sponsored by Bitrock, a company founded in 2003 in Seville, Spain by Daniel Lopez Ridruejo and Erica Brescia. Bitnami stacks are used for installing software on Linux, Windows, Mac OS X and Solaris.
Bitnami stacks are available for web applications such as WordPress, Drupal, Joomla!, and MediaWiki. In addition to the application itself, the stacks include the other software required to run that application. For example, a WordPress stack will include WordPress, as well as the MySQL database to manage data, Apache Web server to serve the pages, and phpMyAdmin to administer MySQL. Bitnami installers are released under the Apache License 2.0. Using automated cloud computing management, Bitnami offers users automated application deployments of open source server apps from Oracle Cloud, Amazon EC2 and Google Cloud Platform servers. Since July 2009 Bitnami also offers ready-to-run virtual machines.
The distinct difference between installation of Bitnami installers and native installs (e.g. rpms and debs on Linux) are that they are installed in a way as to prevent interference with existing software and libraries. If multiple applications are installed on the same web server considerations for resolving conflicts on specific ports must be made.On February 13, 2009, Bitnami announced the release of the Enano CMS web stack, which is unique in that, according to Bitnami and to the Enano CMS Project, the stack module was the first to be externally developed. On February 2010, Bitnami announced the release of Bitnami Cloud Hosting a service that allows deploying Bitnami stacks on the Amazon EC2 cloud, with automatic monitoring and backups.
Timeline
Funding rounds
People
Aaron Fulkerson
Advisor
Adnan Abdulhussein
Employee
Alejandro Cruz
Employee
Álvaro Aroca
Employee
Armando Pauker
Investor
Beau Vrolyk
Investor
Brad Bock
Employee
Dale Brown
Employee
Daniel Lopez Ridruejo
Co-founder
Danielle Morrill
Investor
David Dennis
Employee
Diego Basch
Investor
Elad Gil
Investor
Erica Brescia
Co-founder
Fernando Gómez
Employee
Francisco Ortiz
Employee
Freddy Kelly
Employee
Ian Kallen
Employee
Iñaki Izaola
Employee
John Marbach
Employee
John Mertic
Employee
Jun LI
Investor
Kelsey Stewart
Employee
Kevin Franklin
Employee
Marcy Akard
Employee
Further reading
BitNami serves ready-to-roll CMS stacks
Bitnami: Free Open Source Content Management Stacks
Get it done with BitNami Stacks | FOSSwire
Jacob Peddicord