Get enterprise-grade Bitnami packages using VMware Tanzu Application Catalog

Tanzu Application Catalog provides enterprise version of Bitnami packages that provides developers with Open Source components that are continuously maintained and verifiably tested for use in production environments. These enterprise packages can be customized to meet organization's internal policies and come with extensive security metadata and advisories for risk assessment.

Why should you switch from Bitnami community to enterprise packages?

Tanzu Application Catalog takes care of all open source governance and maintenance activities, helping you build a faster, more secure path to production. These enterprise packages maintain the same configuration as the community version, ensuring a smooth migration process without any steep learning curve.

Enterprise-grade security

Ensure that you get the latest versions of open source components - pre-packaged and ready to use - as soon as they are available upstream, with our continuously refreshed catalog and associated security metadata

Tested for production usage

Reduce the risk of failure at deployment time by using our enterprise packages, which are made production-ready through security scans, functional tests, and verifications across various combinations of Kubernetes versions, cloud platforms, and base OS distribution versions

Comprehensive SBoM, CVE scan results, and VEX documents

Gain visibility into code provenance, dependencies, OSS licenses, vulnerabilities and the corresponding risks to better control the complexities of your ever-growing open source software supply chain

Base OS Customization

Enjoy the flexibility to choose any base OS as per your enterprise standards and policies including VMware's Photon OS, known for its minimal CVEs

Comparison: Bitnami Application Catalog vs Tanzu Application Catalog

Features

Bitnami Application Catalog

Tanzu Application Catalog

Update cadence
Best effort
Refresh of catalog triggered by component updates and critical CVE fixes
Support
Community
VMware support
Base operating system
Debian
Architecture
AMD64, ARM64
AMD64, ARM64
Governance and security advisories
Basic information on components and licenses within the images
Enhanced Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) with detailed metadata for all form factors and CVE scan result reports and VEX documents for container images
Validation reports
Not available
Downloadable application security performance and functional tests results as well as verifications to run air-gap, non-root, and with FIPS
Feature requests
Community
Priority
Kubeapps support
Community
VMware support
Sealed Secrets support
Community
VMware support
Content Storage
Public
Private (Customer provided or VMware hosted registry)
Recommended use
Development
Production