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Tanzu Application Catalog

Score8.7 out of 10

8 Reviews and Ratings

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What is Tanzu Application Catalog?

The Tanzu Application Catalog (or Bitnami) provides packaged applications for any platform. The platform delivers and maintains a catalog of 130+ ready-to-run server applications and development environments in partnership with cloud providers including Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle, driving over 1.5 million deployments per month. Bitnami was acquired by VMware in 2019.

Categories & Use Cases

Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Tanzu Application Catalog has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 8 ratings of Tanzu Application Catalog's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Development environment creation

    Ease of creating new development environments

    Category average: 8

  • Development environment replication

    Ease of replicating new development environments

    Category average: 7.7

  • Ease of building user interfaces

    Ability to build flexible user interfaces using drag-and-drop tools

    Category average: 7.9

Areas for Improvement

  • Issue monitoring and notification

    Integrated monitoring and notification of issues and problems

    Category average: 7.3

  • Issue recovery

    Ease of recovery from problem state

    Category average: 7.3

  • Upgrades and platform fixes

    Ease of deployment of major upgrades or problem fixes

    Category average: 7.7

Reviews

What users are saying about Tanzu Application Catalog.
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QuickView of Bitnami - VMware Application Catalog

Incentivized
Siphesihle McinekaView profile
Software Developer in Information Technology at Singatha Technologies (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As an organization that works close with a business chamber which most of their membership is made up of SMEs in underdeveloped and developing communities, we provide technology services to the chamber and its membership. We use Bitnami to manage most of our development including, GIT repository and vcs, integration tools, reporting services, website for business profiles, CMS, Database Management Services, itc.

Pros

  • pre-packaged templates they provide.
  • ease of cloud-deployment of your projects.
  • The development community page always has useful information and there is a lot of support.

Cons

  • Wordpress issues, I usually encounter more errors when working with Bitnami Wordpress even though there are solutions in the Bitnami docs, maybe some of the errors can be fixed within the packages.

Most Important Features

  • GITLAB
  • MangoDB Exporter
  • WordPress

Return on Investment

  • we managed to deploy 15 projects in the second half of 2022
  • our defects incidents has significantly declined

Other Software Used

Aspire AWS Cloud Services and Solutions, Google Cloud Deployment Manager, IBM Cloud Certificate Manager

The easiest and fastest way to implement the best known free software everywhere

Incentivized
Verified User
Professional in Information Technology (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

A couple of years ago, in the company we began to constantly implement free software such as Magento, Wordpress, Drupal, Moodle, for different uses, these were implemented both for clients and internal projects, at first it was something simple and fast due to the few needs and clients, but time passed and the number of projects increased and we needed a faster deployment of these environments with the least amount of errors, quick configuration, support and updating, so we started looking for a solution and that's where VMware Application Catalog (Bitnami) came to save us

Pros

  • Its easy to use and install apps
  • Great support, considering that its main services are free
  • Different options to install apps (Cloud, local, VM)

Cons

  • Possibility to configure the implementation through mobile devices
  • Sometimes the performance of the VMs is slower than expected
  • A best way to do the upgrades, you have reinstall and reconfigure in this process

Most Important Features

  • Fast, ease to use and implement, a couple of clicks and its ready
  • Great support and community
  • A lot of apps compatible and have all the apps we use

Return on Investment

  • We save a lot of time implementing the apps, less engineers working on this phase
  • The upgrade process of the apps can be a pain and a waste valuable time
  • The mains options of the VMware Application Catalog (Bitnami) are free so is important for save money in our organization

Alternatives Considered

AMPPS - WAMP & MAMP Stack

Other Software Used

Jira Software, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Adobe Premiere Pro

Great Product for big Organizations

Incentivized
Verified User
Employee in Engineering (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

VMware Application Catalog (Bitnami) is an excellent product for organizations looking to easily manage and deploy a wide range of popular open-source applications to a virtual machine. It is incredibly easy to use and allows users to easily discover, download and deploy a wide range of applications, such as web servers, databases, and content management systems, without having to manually install and configure each one.

Pros

  • deploy software
  • wide range of software
  • discover new useful software

Cons

  • limited to open source softwre
  • user interface
  • customizability options for applications once deployed

Most Important Features

  • wide range of open source software
  • easy to use
  • flexibility

Return on Investment

  • cost saving
  • increase productivity
  • improved scalability

Bitnami Review

Incentivized
Verified User
Professional in Research & Development (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Bitnami is used for developing database driven web applications quickly for prototype or proof of concept purposes. Since Bitnami provides vast array of application solutions in the application catalog, we have deployed several of them. This includes PostgreSQL, Apache, Subversion, Apache Spark, InfluxDB, Jupyter Base Notebook, Apache Tomcat, and Jasper Reports. Obviously, Bitnami provivies a wide array of solutions based on various architectures that simplify application development tremendously.

Pros

  • Preconfigured wamp environment
  • Provides quick deployment capabilities
  • Scales to cloud

Cons

  • N/a

Most Important Features

  • Standardization
  • Suitability
  • Capability

Return on Investment

  • Low cost
  • Saves time
  • lessons the learning curve for deployment

Alternatives Considered

Azure VMware Solution

Other Software Used

Eclipse, Microsoft Visual Studio, Systech

Great product to get the job done

Incentivized
Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

When you have developers needing to streamline the production process, the VMware Application Catalog (Bitnami) fits very well and even with the cost associated with it. You choose the software, specify the operating system, and deploy it easily with the app catalog. In addition to being secure, you can easily audit the source codes as well. It's all at a convenience.

Pros

  • seamless implementation
  • The team is happy with the learning curve and how well it works

Cons

  • Mobile device access capability
  • Direct links to KBs for pop-up notifications

Most Important Features

  • Keeping images up to date easily

Return on Investment

  • Faster implementation
  • Easy to update

Alternatives Considered

Blackboard Collaborate