Bitnami Helm charts and images were deprecated and Kubernetes deployment fails

[jgquiroga]

Hi. I was testing the deployment of Open Meter in Kubernetes and I detected the current helm files are not working anymore.

According to the Bitnami repository, they transitioned to a private model, and as a result, all docker images were removed.
Bitnami Charts

Extract:

Important Notice: Upcoming changes to the Bitnami Catalog
Beginning August 28th, 2025, Bitnami will evolve its public catalog to offer a curated set of hardened, security-focused images under the new Bitnami Secure Images initiative. As part of this transition:

• Starting August 28th, over two weeks, all existing container images, including older or versioned tags (e.g., 2.50.0, 10.6), will be migrated from the public catalog (docker.io/bitnami) to the “Bitnami Legacy” repository (docker.io/bitnamilegacy), where they will no longer receive updates.
• For production workloads and long-term support, users are encouraged to adopt Bitnami Secure Images, which include hardened containers, smaller attack surfaces, CVE transparency (via VEX/KEV), SBOMs, and enterprise support.

Now, for example, the Kafka tags appear empty:
https://hub.docker.com/r/bitnami/kafka/tags

The previous images have been moved to the Bitnami Legacy repository:
https://hub.docker.com/r/bitnamilegacy/kafka/tags

I think an issue should be created to discuss the usage of Bitnami Legacy packages (with lack of security support), vs to switch to a different Helm package.

Thank you

[igor-soldev]

If you’re affected by the Bitnami image changes — I’m from SolDevelo, and our container images are fully compatible replacements for Bitnami ones (including Kafka).

https://soldevelo.com/services/bitnami-container-images-maintained-by-soldevelo/