# phpBB

[phpBB](https://www.phpbb.com/) is an Internet forum package written in the PHP scripting language. The name "phpBB" is an abbreviation of PHP Bulletin Board.

## Introduction

This chart bootstraps a [phpBB](https://github.com/bitnami/bitnami-docker-phpbb) deployment on a [Kubernetes](http://kubernetes.io) cluster using the [Helm](https://helm.sh) package manager.

It also packages the [Bitnami MariaDB chart](https://github.com/kubernetes/charts/tree/master/stable/mariadb) which is required for bootstrapping a MariaDB deployment for the database requirements of the phpBB application.

**Warning:** upgrade from previous version will encounter data loss, please make sure you have backup the data before doing doing upgrade. 
