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OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards are compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Debian-based Linux distributions that use systemd, such as Amazon Linux, and Ubuntu Long-Term Support (LTS). While OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards should work on most Linux distributions, we only test a subset.

Supported operating systems

The following table lists the operating system versions that we are currently testing:

OS Version
Rocky Linux 8
Alma Linux 8
Amazon Linux 2/2023
Ubuntu 20.04
Windows Server 2019

Change log

The following table lists changes made to operating system compatibility.

Date Issue PR Details
2024-07-23 opensearch-build Issue 4379 PR 7821 Remove CentOS7.
2024-03-08 opensearch-build Issue 4573 PR 6637 Remove CentOS8, add Almalinux8/Rockylinux8, and remove Ubuntu 16.04/18.04 because we currently only test on 20.04
2023-06-06 documentation-website Issue 4217 PR 4218 Support matrix creation
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