[Bitnami Lamp] How to locate full bitnami lamp image version from command line

[tacoma50]

I can fine the base bitnami image version from the linux command line like this:

root@lamp-test-vm:/opt/bitnami# cat /opt/bitnami/properties.ini
[General]
base_stack_key=lampstack
base_stack_name=Bitnami package for LAMP
base_stack_version=8.2.25
installdir=/opt/bitnami

1. But how do I find the full release version such as bitnami-lampstack-8-2-25-r3-debian-12-amd64 from the command line?

2. Also, In Google cloud platform, is there a way to launch a specific version of the Bitnami LAMP solution?

[gongomgra]

Hi @tacoma50,

Google Marketplace only allows offering one version of a given product at a time, so it is not possible to launch previous versions. Regarding how to get the full image name of a given instance programmatically, you can either use the gcloud CLI, or run the next command directly from the instance SSH console

curl -s "http://metadata.google.internal/computeMetadata/v1/instance/image" -H "Metadata-Flavor: Google" | cut -d'/' -f 5

This is the result I'm getting from a fresh server I have just started

$ curl -s "http://metadata.google.internal/computeMetadata/v1/instance/image" -H "Metadata-Flavor: Google" | cut -d'/' -f 5
bitnami-lampstack-8-4-3-r3-debian-12-amd64

You can find more information on this in the official Google docs at https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/metadata/querying-metadata

[tacoma50]

OK so that curl cmd works for my test-vm server, see output here:
test-vm:$ curl -s "http://metadata.google.internal/computeMetadata/v1/instance/image" -H "Metadata-Flavor: Google" | cut -d'/' -f 5
bitnami-lampstack-8-2-25-r1-debian-12-amd64

But I have another bitnami-lamp server called test2 that was not created from a google marketplace deployment, but it is was created from a machine image of the server test-vm above. When I run that cmd above, there is no output, as seen here:

test2:$ curl -s "http://metadata.google.internal/computeMetadata/v1/instance/image" -H "Metadata-Flavor: Google" | cut -d'/' -f 5
test2:~$

That is the problem. For test-vm I can find the bitnami version from my google cloud dashboard, when I look at ComputeEngine VMs and look at the test-vm BOOT DISK image.
But when I look at ComputeEngine VMs and look at the test2 BOOT DISK image, it's blank.

[gongomgra]

I'm afraid we don't save that information into our images, but you can save it on first run if you need to (either in the properties.ini file or anywhere else you prefer to), so it would get propagated to your future instances generated from that initial instance. Alternatively you can check with Google support team if there is any other key with that information in their metadata API for cloned instances.

[tacoma50]

Great idea...thanks!

When you say put the bitnami version in in the properties.ini file, do you mean this file:
/opt/bitnami/properties.ini
if yes, would it be OK to add this line to the file:
base_stack_full_version=8-2-25-r3-debian-12-amd64

Will this new entry cause any issues anywhere?

Maybe you could consider adding this on future releases.

[gongomgra]

I think you can add your own section at the end of the ini file to avoid conflicts with current settings (just in case).

[tacoma]
base_stack_full_version=8-2-25-r3-debian-12-amd64

Thanks for the suggestion. At this moment we do not have any plan on adding more information to the properties.ini file, but we will evaluate it for the future.

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