It looks like it may be viable to revive the Magento appliance?

[JedMeister]

Our Magento appliance was deprecated some time ago due to the fact that the open source version was deemed not suitable for production. After having a quick look at their info and documentation (see links below) it seems that is no longer the case? So reintroducing it might be viable?

Note whist this would be an appliance revival I've added "new-appliance" tag and pinned it to the v19.0 milestone.

It will take a little more exploration and it's not a high priority. However it was a very popular appliance so IMO it would be a good idea to have a closer look. Links:

https://magento-opensource.com/
https://magento-opensource.com/get-magento/
https://github.com/magento/magento2
https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/commerce-operations/installation-guide/composer

Also see the install docs:

https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/commerce-operations/installation-guide/composer

OTOH it does look like there are still a couple of pain points:

• as @OnGle noted previously, it still requires keys for setup. Ongle's concerns are still relevant but I recall we worked around that before using our own dev key for initial install and an inithook for a user to add their own key. It's a pain, but it works...
• officially it only supports MySQL v8.x, not MariaDB - although MySQL do have a third party apt repo, so that shouldn't be too hard.
• their trademark licensing is a bit sucky so we'd need to be careful with that.