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52 pointsridruejo10 comments

So Bitnami is essentially packaging open source applications, deploying them in one-click onto a 3rd party cloud host (Google or AWS it looks like), and then charging people by the month for doing this?

Sounds great for people who just want to set something up quickly, but am I missing some other point? I would rather put in a few hours to get something setup myself, create an AMI (Or equivalent on another provider), and then I wouldn't be getting charged monthly.

I'm probably not the target audience here though.

Bitnami applications are free to download/launch in the cloud, and you are never locked in to using Bitnami.

On top of this, we provide management of your cloud hosting with scheduled backups and monitoring as a paid service[1].

[1] https://bitnami.com/cloud#benefits

Any python dev environments?

We have a Django stack :) https://bitnami.com/stack/django

Does it deploy Redmine/rails apps to Google cloud??

On another note.. Is it only me who finds Google cloud Eco system confusing? Compared to AWS of course.

Hey, we include Redmine[1] in our Library, as well as a Ruby Stack[2] that gives you everything you need to run Rails apps on Google Cloud Platform :).

[1] https://bitnami.com/stack/redmine [2] https://bitnami.com/stack/ruby

What do you find confusing? Stated differently, what questions do you have about the platform that you find do not have straightforward answers, or for which straightforward answers were difficult to find?

(note: I work on Compute Engine, so my question is more than idle curiosity :)

It's quite possible that I am just not aware of the things...

But is there a single place (site) for Google developers, where I can see what the heck is going on with my account? For starters... I just searched (googled of course :) for "google developer console" the first link is

Google play developer console - and it's asking me to sign up for something (Google play of course) - https://play.google.com/apps/publish/signup/

Ignoring /help links(number 2 and 3), fourth link is https://developers.google.com/ - it has a big Search field and some text mentioning Products/Monetizing/Web Fundamentals

I have a couple of projects deployed on GAE, there is no where I can find them!

And all this is happening when I am signed in to my Google developers account.

Is it so hard for mighty Google to have a single developers console for all their platforms? And I haven't even touched how frustrating it is to work with Google APIs these days.

> Compared to AWS of course.

Every time I see the AWS admin console a shudder goes down my spine.

I won't disagree with you, it's quite intimidating.

But have you come across an unified Google developer console anywhere? Where I can see what all developer services they offer and the current details of my account??

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