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:

OSVersion
Rocky Linux8
Alma Linux8
Amazon Linux2/2023
Ubuntu20.04
Windows Server2019

Change log

The following table lists changes made to operating system compatibility.

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