DigitalOcean Teams Up with Bitnami, Install Over 100 Web Apps with a Few Clicks

Though ServerPilot focuses more on ongoing server management (e.g. updates, control panel, monitoring, support) for DigitalOcean servers rather than one-click installers, there is now a one-click WordPress installer.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;serverpilot.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2015&#x2F;07&#x2F;22&#x2F;one-click-wordpress-and-automatic-serverpilot-installer.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;serverpilot.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2015&#x2F;07&#x2F;22&#x2F;one-click-wordpress-a...</a>

I like Bitnami and I am a big fan. However, when deploying Jboss, Glassfish and Tomcat application servers from Bitnami onto AWS, I have found that you need to configure the application server specs based on the specs of your host EC2 -- I ended up creating custom images for each type of EC2 in my inventory for these application servers.

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vultr.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vultr.com&#x2F;</a> is like DO except it allows arbitrary ISO and iPXE. No need to wait on DigitalOcean for them to provide your OS. They also have IPv6, private IPs and more locations. And it&#x27;s a bit cheaper.

The Bitnami images for GitLab are impossible to upgrade automatically and are a worse experience than our Omnibus packages. I hope Bitnami addresses this soon.

This has been available on AWS also: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;marketplace&#x2F;search&#x2F;results&#x2F;ref=srh_navgno_search_box?page=1&amp;searchTerms=bitnami" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;marketplace&#x2F;search&#x2F;results&#x2F;ref=srh_na...</a>

&gt; DigitalOcean users get two free months of Bitnami access.<p>Uh, I don&#x27;t really understand what &quot;Bitnami access&quot; constitutes. Once I&#x27;ve done the install, I don&#x27;t really need Bitnami for anything more, right? <i>right?</i> Does that mean everyone who wants to do a Bitnami-powered install should hurry up and do it now, before they have to pay to get access to the Bitnami installer?

Flockport provides something similar but with containers <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flockport.com&#x2F;store" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flockport.com&#x2F;store</a> We have a fledgling app store with over 30 apps that can be deployed on any Linux server in minutes. It&#x27;s completely free.<p>The advantage with using containers as opposed to VMs is containers are portable so you are not stuck to any server or cloud provider. Your apps are portable, and cloning, snapshots and backups become simpler.<p>The advantage of using LXC is the entire stack can be in one container and the environment is more like an OS that users are familiar with. Users can use the flockport utility to pull the app and then directly get to the App dashboard, without all the installation and configuration hassles of a typical stack. And Flockport apps should work with nspawn and other container managers.

Please add Dada Mail [0] to your DO offerings. It&#x27;s already available on the Mojo Marketplace, Softaculous, Installtron, etc,<p>It comes bundled with a CLI installer, which would be trivial to utilize when automating the install process.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dadamailproject.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dadamailproject.com</a>

How&#x27;s Wordpress on Digital Ocean? Will the $10 plan work well as a starter site?

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sandstorm.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sandstorm.io&#x2F;</a> remains the best option for packaging webapps IMHO.

I will stick to building the machines myself. These just seem dangerous. If I am going to use these I should just host on HostGator.

I don&#x27;t see the Bitnami apps when I try to create a droplet. Where do I find them?<p>Edit: It seems I need to register on Bitnami&#x27;s website.

Wordpress is awful on DO and many things can and do break. Trust me, I&#x27;ve been developing with Wordpress for over a decade, and WP on a VPS is a whole different kettle of fish. Whether it&#x27;s hardening the VPS to avoid a DDOS, or auto-patching Ubuntu when OpenSSL gets another vulnerability. It&#x27;s quite mightmarish. DO is good for things like Gitlab and VPNs and things like that, but good luck trying to get something bulletproof and high availability. It&#x27;s a devops nightmare. It can be achieved, but it takes some time...

hey, looks a bit like quickinstall at hostgator

Aren&#x27;t those the guys who took over XAMPP? (portable dev LAMP for various OS incl Windows)