[HN Gopher] Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts
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Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts
Author : mmoogle
Score : 58 points
Date : 2025-07-18 19:29 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| ntqz wrote:
| I could see the writing on the wall with this.
|
| On that note, I'm already looking at migrating my codebase off of
| Spring. Just testing the waters with Quarkus, Helidon, Micronaut,
| Pekko, Vert.x, and plain Jakarta EE right now.
| _1tan wrote:
| Are there any indications or just a feel?
| bags43 wrote:
| Company where I work had huge risk audit.
|
| The second highest risk is using USA based cloud with 66/100.
|
| The first one was using Spring Boot everywhere 77/100. Till
| the end of 2025 we need to have migration path to something
| else with 2 PoCs done.
| jchmbrln wrote:
| I'm completely out of the loop. What's going on with Spring
| Boot?
| radicalbyte wrote:
| The VMware apocalypse.
| heisenbit wrote:
| One does not need VMware for SpringBoot so?
| xienze wrote:
| Spring's corporate steward is VMWare, and Broadcom bought
| VMWare, ergo Spring is subject to Broadcom's whims.
| TYMorningCoffee wrote:
| VMware owns Spring Boot
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_Boot
| loloquwowndueo wrote:
| Not spring boot, but spring, is owned by VMware. Sure
| spring is under a free license but if upstream
| enshittifies, community forks would be required.
| xienze wrote:
| Probably a bit of overreaction given that Broadcom is now
| in charge of Spring. At the end of the day it's a wildly
| popular open source project -- it has a path forward if
| Broadcom pulls shenanigans.
|
| That said, I have noticed that the free support window
| for any given version is super short these days. I.e. if
| you're not on top of constantly upgrading you're looking
| at paid support if you want security patches.
| lapusta wrote:
| Red Hat effectively killed their JBoss/Middleware team and the
| rest of it moved to IBM
| https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/evolving-our-middleware-strat...
| Quarkus and other tools were pushed to CommonHaus/Apache. I
| believe Vert.X was also mostly developer by RH team, although
| moved to Eclispe Foundation a decade ago.
|
| Oracle also ended up somehow sponsoring 2 frameworks: Helidon &
| Micronaut.
|
| I'd bet Spring is still the safest choice next to Jakarta EE
| standards that all are built on top of nowadays.
| js4ever wrote:
| Great more enshitification! Broadcom is destroying everything
| they touch
| jacquesm wrote:
| That's nonsense. RPi would not exist if not for Broadcom.
| okanat wrote:
| RPi doesn't exist due to Broadcom. It exists despite
| Broadcom.
|
| Using RPis can be a huge PITA, if you'd like to do something
| a bit more complex with the hardware. HDMI, the video
| decoders are all behind closed doors with blobs on top of
| blobs and NDAs.
|
| RPi SoCs are some of the weirdest out there. It boots from
| the GPU ffs.
| sseveran wrote:
| This is going to cause some disruptions. What are the
| alternatives out there to bitnami charts?
| chrisandchris wrote:
| They're all open source - fork the repo and start collectively
| maintain them.
| gchamonlive wrote:
| That doesn't really answer the question, does it?
| gchamonlive wrote:
| My first thought was Linuxcontainers but I think they just
| maintain docker images, not helm charts
| ethan_smith wrote:
| Check out Artifact Hub, the CNCF-hosted charts from projects
| like Prometheus/Grafana, or the official k8s-at-home charts as
| solid alternatives to Bitnami.
| dpkirchner wrote:
| Maybe this will finally break me of my habit of using helm
| charts, period.
| cheshire_cat wrote:
| Why do you want to stop using helm charts? Genuine question, as
| I'm new to Kubernetes and helm.
| chuckadams wrote:
| Write a few Helm charts and you'll understand why people want
| to stop using it. `nindent` will become a curse word in your
| vocabulary. It's a fine tool at the user level, but the DX is
| an atrocity.
| bigstrat2003 wrote:
| I mean, I have written a few (like 5-10?) and I don't
| understand either. I find that Helm is quite a nice tool
| which does its job very well.
| cbzbc wrote:
| What are you planning on moving to ?
| NewJazz wrote:
| Consuming one that is well written isn't too much pain, IME.
| But writing or modifying one can be really annoying. Aiui the
| values.yaml has no type schema, just vibes. The whole thing
| is powered off using text templating with yaml (a whitespace
| sensitive language), which is error prone and often hard to
| read. That's basically the main issues in a nutshell, it may
| not sound like much, but helm doesn't exactly do a whole lot
| and it does that limited set of stuff poorly.
| chuckadams wrote:
| Broadcom gonna Broadcom. Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower.
| iotapi322 wrote:
| That's fine , their repmgr postgres repository was a joke.
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