Arm has legs: VMware's Bitnami starts packaging apps for Graviton and Ampere
VMware's open source app packaging outfit Bitnami has started offering images ready for deployment on Arm-powered clouds, citing customer demand for the lower prices offered by the likes of AWS, Azure, and Google compared to their x86-powered instances.
Bitnami packages open source software in forms that make it easy to deploy rapidly in clouds or on-prem. VMwarethe company and its tech in 2015 to give its cloud – which at the time VMware ran and operated by itself – an equivalent to competing clouds' app marketplaces. VMware gave up on its own cloud when it realized it had no chance of matching hyperscalers' capital outlays. But it kept Bitnami as part of its efforts to court developers. Bitnami's contribution is to offer deployments to clouds, as the provider of packaging for VMware'sof apps ready to run in Virtzilla-powered environments, and for its ability to power app catalogs that VMware users can use to create the equivalent of an internal app store.
One way Bitnami packages apps is as containers on Docker Hub, where it claims to record two million pulls a month across the 180-odd apps it offers."More than a year and a half ago , Bitnami users started requesting us to provide support for Arm because Apple started with their M1 and also in the Hyperscalers the Arm adoption was planned to be done," states a February 24.
Bitnami's post cites research by open source database support operation Percona that found AWS instances using the cloud giant's own Arm-powered Graviton CPUs often deliver superior price/performance compared to cloudy VMs using Intel or AMD silicon.
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