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Couchbase Server is supported on several popular operating systems and virtual environments.

Supported Operating Systems

Make sure that your chosen operating system is listed below before you install Couchbase Server.

Note that Couchbase clusters on mixed platforms are not supported. Nodes in a Couchbase cluster should all be running on the same OS, and every effort should be made to apply the same OS patches across the entire cluster.

ARM64 support requires ARMv8 CPUs, such as the Amazon Graviton series.

Table 1. Supported Operating Systems for Development, Testing, and Production
Operating System Supported Versions (64-bit)

Alma Linux

9.x

Amazon Linux 2

LTS (x86-64, ARM64)

Amazon Linux 2023

AL2023 (x86-64, ARM64)

Debian

11.x

10.x (deprecated in 7.2)

Oracle Linux[1]

8.x

9.x

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

7.x (unsupported in Couchbase Server 7.2)

8.x

9.x

Rocky Linux

9.x

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)

12.x

15.x

(Note that versions earlier than SP2 are no longer supported in Couchbase Server 7.2.)

Ubuntu

20.04 LTS (x86, ARM64)

22.x LTS (x86, ARM64)

Windows Server

2022

2019

Table 2. Supported Operating Systems for Development and Testing Only
Operating System Supported Versions (64-bit)

macOS

11 "Big Sur" (deprecated in 7.2)

12 "Monterey" (x86-64 and Apple Silicon ARM64)

Windows Desktop

10 (requires Anniversary Update)

Supported Virtualization and Container Platforms

Table 3. Supported VM and Container Platforms
Platform Notes

Docker

Couchbase Server is compatible with Docker.

Official Docker images are available on Docker Hub. Follow the best practices to run Couchbase Server on a virtualized environment.

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)

Couchbase Server is compatible with KVM.

Follow the best practices to run Couchbase Server on a virtualized environment.

Kubernetes

First-party integration with Kubernetes is made available with the Couchbase Autonomous Operator.

Red Hat OpenShift

First-party integration with Red Hat OpenShift is made available with the Couchbase Autonomous Operator.

VMware

Couchbase Server is compatible with VMware.

Follow the best practices to run Couchbase Server on a virtualized environment.

Supported Web Browsers

Couchbase Web Console is supported on a variety of modern Web browsers.

Table 4. Couchbase Web Console Supported Web Browsers
Browser Operating System (64-bit) Browser Version Couchbase platform

Apple Safari

macOS

11.1+

7.2
7.1
7.0

Google Chrome

macOS, Windows

67+

7.2
7.1
7.0

Microsoft Edge

Windows

80+

7.2
7.1
7.0

Mozilla Firefox

macOS, Windows

67+

7.2
7.1
7.0

Capella Browser Support

A list of the supported web browsers for Capella is provided here.


1. Only the Red Hat Compatible Kernel (RHCK) is supported. The Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK) is not supported.