Bitnami is an application packaging and publishing startup that was acquired by VMware in 2019. It is a leading provider of prepackaged open source software that runs natively in environments where a large portion of developers and other users want to build or deploy applications in the major public clouds, on laptops, and on Kubernetes. Over the last few years with the increased popularity of containers and platforms like Kubernetes, Bitnami's growth has raised exponentially and several of its containerised applications are now well over +1B downloads each.

The secret sauce for Bitnami success has always been trying to make Open Source safe and easy to use. Sounds simple, but it is actually very challenging. A robust pipeline must be able to build many different flavours of open source software targeting many different operating systems and clouds, and it has to be simple. Abstracting users from complexity. Additionally, Bitnami focuses on making Open Source safer by having those application packages running within a continuous update loop taking care of releasing updates when new vulnerabilities or attacks are found.

In this talk we would like to go over how we have made this possible over the last 15 years.