Effective September 29, 2025 Broadcom is restructuring distribution: production-grade images and continued chart updates are provided under Bitnami Secure Images (commercial), the free tier offers a limited set of latest-tag hardened images for development, and older/versioned images are archived to Bitnami Legacy and no longer maintained. This change removes free access to most versioned images and halts updates to already-packaged charts, breaking image and chart pulls unless repositories are updated. To assist Kubernetes users in remediating this risk, Chkk has published a collection of known alternative Docker images and Helm Charts at chkk-io/bitnami-alternatives public source code repository. The chkk bitnami command detects Bitnami artifacts running in a Kubernetes cluster and lists known alternative artifacts.
The chkk bitnami command does not require a Chkk account or login.
Download the chkk CLI tool and run chkk bitnami. The command will then ask you to select one or more Kubernetes Clusters in which to detect Bitnami Docker images and Helm Charts: 
$ chkk bitnami
Found 1 total Kubernetes Clusters in your kubeconfig.
Use the arrow keys to navigate: ↓ ↑ → ←  and / toggles search
Select the clusters in which to detect Bitnami Docker images and Helm Charts. Select "Submit" to submit choices.
  →   Submit 
    kind-bitnami-demo (https://127.0.0.1:40081)
Once you have used the arrow keys to select the Kubernetes Clusters to inspect, arrow up to the Submit line and hit Enter. 
$ chkk bitnami
Found 1 total Kubernetes Clusters in your kubeconfig.

You made the following 1 selections:

1: kind-bitnami-demo (https://127.0.0.1:40081)

Are you sure you want to submit these? Enter 'n' to select again. (Y/n)
We will ask you to confirm your selected clusters. Hit Enter again to do so and chkk bitnami will display any detected Bitnami artifacts and list any known alternatives: 
3 unique Bitnami Docker images detected in Kubernetes cluster "kind-bitnami-demo"                 
───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
                           DOCKER.IO/BITNAMILEGACY/ARGO-CD:3.1.1-DEBIAN-12-R0
───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
┌───────────────────┬────────────┬───────────┬───────────────────────────────┐
│      CLUSTER      │    KIND    │ NAMESPACE │         RESOURCE NAME         │
├───────────────────┼────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
│ kind-bitnami-demo │ Deployment │ default   │ argocd-argo-cd-app-controller │
│ kind-bitnami-demo │ Deployment │ default   │ argocd-argo-cd-repo-server    │
│ kind-bitnami-demo │ Deployment │ default   │ argocd-argo-cd-server         │
└───────────────────┴────────────┴───────────┴───────────────────────────────┘

⚠️  bitnamilegacy: archived/versioned images — no updates or support; security risk; temporary migration fallback only

Bitnami catalog: deletion Sep 29, 2025 - transient pull failures now; persistent failures after.

✅ Found 2 alternative images:

- docker.io/argoproj/argocd
- quay.io/argoproj/argocd

🔍 Detected: Project is installed via Helm.

✅ Found 5 alternative Helm charts:

- https://argoproj.github.io/argo-helm/argo-cd
- https://mesosphere.github.io/charts/stable/argo-cd
- https://charts.wener.tech/argo-cd
- https://charts.kubegems.io/kubegems/argo-cd
- https://marketplace.azurecr.io/helm/v1/repo/argo-cd

───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
                            DOCKER.IO/BITNAMI/REDIS:8.2.1-DEBIAN-12-R0
───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
┌───────────────────┬─────────────┬───────────┬─────────────────────┐
│      CLUSTER      │    KIND     │ NAMESPACE │    RESOURCE NAME    │
├───────────────────┼─────────────┼───────────┼─────────────────────┤
│ kind-bitnami-demo │ StatefulSet │ default   │ argocd-redis-master │
└───────────────────┴─────────────┴───────────┴─────────────────────┘

⚠️  Bitnami catalog: deletion Sep 29, 2025 - transient pull failures now; persistent failures after.

✅ Found 8 alternative images:

- docker.io/library/redis
- public.ecr.aws/ubuntu/redis
- gcr.io/google-containers/redis
- us.gcr.io/google-containers/redis
- asia.gcr.io/google-containers/redis
- eu.gcr.io/google-containers/redis
- public.ecr.aws/anomalo/tools/redis
- quay.io/akuity/redis

🔍 Detected: Project is installed via Helm.

❌ No alternative Helm charts found.


───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
                            DOCKER.IO/BITNAMI/MYSQL:9.4.0-DEBIAN-12-R1
───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
┌───────────────────┬─────────────┬───────────┬───────────────┐
│      CLUSTER      │    KIND     │ NAMESPACE │ RESOURCE NAME │
├───────────────────┼─────────────┼───────────┼───────────────┤
│ kind-bitnami-demo │ StatefulSet │ default   │ mysql         │
└───────────────────┴─────────────┴───────────┴───────────────┘

⚠️  Bitnami catalog: deletion Sep 29, 2025 - transient pull failures now; persistent failures after.

✅ Found 13 alternative images:

- docker.io/mysql
- public.ecr.aws/docker/library/mysql
- public.ecr.aws/ubuntu/mysql
- docker.io/circleci/mysql
- docker.io/ubuntu/mysql
- docker.io/cimg/mysql
- docker.io/rapidfort/mysql
- docker.io/linuxserver/mysql
- docker.io/docksal/mysql
- public.ecr.aws/lts/mysql
- public.ecr.aws/runecast/mysql
- docker.io/elestio/mysql
- docker.io/rapidfort/mysql-official

🔍 Detected: Project is installed via Helm.

✅ Found 1 alternative Helm chart:

- https://marketplace.azurecr.io/helm/v1/repo/mysql

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Additional Resources

Glossary of Terms
TermDefinition
OCI Helm chartA Helm chart packaged and distributed as an OCI artifact (e.g., oci://registry-1.docker.io/bitnamicharts/<chart>).
Bitnami LegacyA Docker Hub organization (docker.io/bitnamilegacy) that archives older/versioned Bitnami images with no updates; intended only for temporary migration.
Bitnami Secure Images (BSI)Broadcom’s commercial offering with hardened, continuously rebuilt images and maintained Helm charts, plus SBOM/VEX, compliance artifacts, and support.
Free community tierA limited subset of latest-tag hardened images available for development use; not a production support channel.
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