Bitnami images going away — best path forward for Mender 3.7.7 on EKS?

Hi everyone,

We’re running Mender 3.7.7 (Open Source) on EKS using Helm chart v5.11.2. Everything was working fine until a recent cluster migration — our MongoDB and Redis pods stopped pulling because they rely on Bitnami images, which Broadcom is deprecating and moving behind a paywall.

We were able to pinned the image digests that were still cached on the nodes as a temporary fix, but we know this won’t last.

What would be the recommended path to overcome this situation?

A few specific questions:

  • Has anyone successfully migrated their MongoDB data from the Bitnami sub-chart to an external MongoDB instance?
  • We’re on the Open Source version but Redis is still running — is it actually needed, or can we safely disable it?
  • Any gotchas we should be aware of?

Our current setup:

  • Mender: 3.7.7 (Open Source)
  • Helm chart: v5.11.2
  • MongoDB: Bitnami sub-chart
  • Redis: Bitnami sub-chart

Any advice or shared experience would be really appreciated.
Thanks!