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bitnami/charts
Bitnami Helm Charts
The canonical Helm chart collection for deploying common open-source software on Kubernetes — databases, message queues, CI tools, the works. Maintained by Broadcom/VMware's Bitnami team with daily updates. If you're standing up Postgres, Redis, Kafka, Airflow, or ArgoCD on Kubernetes and don't want to write charts from scratch, this is where most people start.
Each chart ships with full production-grade scaffolding out of the box: HPA, VPA, PodDisruptionBudget, NetworkPolicy, and ServiceMonitor templates are all there and just need enabling via values. The images are actively scanned and rebuilt against Photon Linux with near-zero CVEs — this matters more than people admit when your security team asks for an SBOM. Charts are versioned independently, so upgrading Redis doesn't touch your Kafka chart. The values schema files (values.schema.json) on charts like Apache and APISIX catch misconfiguration at install time rather than at runtime.
These charts are famously verbose — the Airflow values.yaml alone is thousands of lines, and customizing anything non-trivial means wading through deeply nested values with inconsistent naming across charts. The move to Bitnami Secure Images (Photon-based) broke a lot of existing customizations that assumed Debian-based images; the migration path is rough if you have init containers or sidecars that depend on specific tooling. Broadcom's acquisition of VMware has created real uncertainty about long-term support and licensing — the commercial BSI tiers are being pushed harder, and some teams are migrating off. Fork rate (10k forks on 10k stars) signals how many orgs are maintaining local patches rather than contributing upstream.