Bitnami
Hardened, production-ready open source container images and Helm charts with minimal CVEs
About Bitnami
Bitnami, now owned by Broadcom, packages popular open source applications as container images, Helm charts, and virtual machines. Its current commercial offering, Bitnami Secure Images, provides a continuously rebuilt catalog of 350+ hardened images and 140+ Helm charts with SBOMs, VEX statements, and CVE scan results for regulated, production environments. A limited set of free images is available for development and testing only.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Very large catalog of ready-to-run open source apps and Helm charts that many teams already use
- Images are minimal and continuously rebuilt, keeping CVE counts low
- Ships SBOMs, VEX statements, and SLSA 3 attestations that help with audits and vulnerability triage
- Supports FIPS, STIG, FedRAMP, and air-gapped environments for regulated industries
- Works across all major Kubernetes distributions and container runtimes
Cons
- Free images are limited to the latest tag and non-production use since the 2025 catalog change
- No public pricing; third-party reports put subscriptions in the tens of thousands of dollars per year
- Purchasing goes through Broadcom enterprise sales, which is heavy for small teams
- Teams relying on the old free versioned images had to migrate to the legacy repository or alternatives
Key Features
Hardened Image Catalog
350+ production-ready open source applications packaged as minimal, low-CVE container images built on a Photon OS base.
Helm Charts
140+ maintained Helm charts, including distroless variants that are smaller and ship with fewer packages.
Continuous Rebuilds
Images and charts are rebuilt when upstream versions, critical CVE fixes, or config changes land, and at least every 30 days.
Security Transparency Artifacts
Every image ships with an SBOM, CVE scan results, KEV reports, and VEX statements to speed up vulnerability triage.
Supply Chain Attestation
SLSA level 3 attestation signatures and anti-virus scans, with reports available through an API for existing security tooling.
Compliance Support
Supports FIPS, STIG, and FedRAMP requirements for regulated industries and public-sector deployments.
Air-Gap Ready
Out-of-the-box support for delivering images into air-gapped and disconnected environments.
Platform-Agnostic Deployment
Runs on any OCI-compliant Kubernetes or container runtime, verified on GKE, EKS/ECS, AKS, OpenShift, and Tanzu, plus VMs on VMware.
Image Customization
Build customized images on the hardened base using standard package formats, delivered to your own registry.
Pricing
- Subset of Bitnami Secure Images on Docker Hub
- Latest tag only, no version pinning
- Non-production use only
- Community support
- Full catalog of 350+ images and 140+ Helm charts
- Versioned images delivered to your registry
- SBOM, VEX, KEV and CVE scan reports
- FIPS, STIG and FedRAMP support
- Air-gapped delivery
- Image customization
- 24/7 enterprise support
Best For
Production Kubernetes Workloads
Deploy databases, caches, and web apps from maintained Helm charts instead of building and patching images in-house.
Software Supply Chain Security
Use SBOMs, VEX, and attestation signatures to prove image provenance and prioritize real vulnerabilities.
Regulated and Public-Sector Environments
Meet FIPS, STIG, and FedRAMP requirements and shorten accreditation work with pre-hardened images.
Air-Gapped Deployments
Deliver a curated, hardened image catalog into disconnected networks.
Local Development and Testing
Use the free latest-tag images to spin up open source dependencies during development.
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