Bitnami is quickly becoming the trusted source for secure and up to date server based apps. Bitnami essentially offer an app store for open source apps that can run anywhere: on premise, as containers or in the public cloud. Bitnami ensure images are patched and up to date so they can be trusted. They are also fully packaged with all required libraries so they are ready to run, and even better they do this for hundreds of apps and are available via the Azure marketplace at no extra cost over and above your VM.
Here is a breakdown of just some of the apps that you can get from Bitnami via the Azure marketplace, but for a complete list, click here:
Business Applications
SEO Panel is open source SEO management software, with an automated dashboard that makes tracking SEO metrics on multiple websites simple.
CiviCRM is an open source constituent relationship management solution designed specifically to meet the needs of advocacy, non-profit and non-governmental groups. Bitnami has integrated CiviCRM with the Drupal content management system.
SugarCRM is a flexible customer relationship management solution that can easily be customized and integrated with other software. It includes sales force automation, marketing campaigns, support cases, and more.
ERPNext is an open source, web based application that helps small and medium sized business manage their accounting, inventory, sales, purchase, administration, project, customer support and website.
JasperReports Server is a stand-alone and embeddable reporting server. It provides reporting and analytics that can be embedded into a web or mobile application as well as operate as a central information hub for the enterprise.
Moodle is a Course Management System that is designed using sound pedagogical principles to help educators create effective online learning communities. It can scale from one computer to a 50,000-student university and is used in over 175 countries.
Web Content Management and eCommerce Solutions
Magento is a feature-rich flexible e-commerce solution. It includes transaction options, multi-store functionality, loyalty programs, product categorization and shopper filtering, promotion rules, and more.
Drupal is a content management platform that allows users to easily publish, manage and organize content. It is used for community web portals, discussion sites, corporate web sites and more. It is easy to extend by plugging in modules.
Alfresco Community is an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system featuring document management, web content management, collaboration management, records management and image management.
Joomla! is an award-winning content management system that can be used to build personal/corporate websites or portals, small business websites, non-profit and organizational websites.
WordPress is a popular blogging software and powers more than 10% of all websites globally. Thousands of free and commercial themes and plugins are available to extend and personalize WordPress for just about every situation
Developer Tools
Apache ActiveMQ is an open source message broker written in Java together with a full Java Message Service (JMS) client.
DreamFactory is a popular open source REST API platform for mobile enterprise application developers. DreamFactory enables developers to quickly connect any SQL or NoSQL database or File Storage system to any tablet, phone, or other device with a comprehensive palette of RESTful services.
Bitnami Elasticsearch Stack is a pre-configured, ready to run image for running Elasticsearch on Microsoft Azure. Flexible and powerful open source, distributed real-time search and analytics engine.
GitLab is self-hosted Git management software that is fast, secure, and based on Ruby on Rails. GitLab CI (also included) is an open-source Continuous Integration (CI) server closely integrated with Git and GitLab.
Jenkins CI is an open source continuous integration server. It supports multiple SCM tools including CVS, Subversion and Git. It can execute Apache Ant and Apache Maven-based projects as well as arbitrary scripts. This version of Jenkins includes a preconfigured Windows Azure Storage plugin that allows you to manage artefact storage in Windows Azure Blob objects.