Compatible operating systems
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 test for OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards 3.9. To view the operating systems tested for a different OpenSearch version, select that version in the documentation version selector.
| Operating system | Version |
|---|---|
| Rocky Linux | 8 |
| Alma Linux | 8 |
| Amazon Linux | 2023 |
| Ubuntu | 24.04 |
| Windows Server | 2019 |
Change log
The following table lists changes made to operating system compatibility.
| Date | Issue | PR | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
2026-09-29 | opensearch-build issue 5227 | PR 12853 | Remove Amazon Linux 2 |
2025-02-06 | opensearch-build issue 5270 | PR 9165 | Remove Ubuntu 20.04 |
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 |