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Sync Gateway’s Supported Operating System and Cloud environments
Sync Gateway is supported on several popular operating systems and virtual environments.

Supported Versions

Make sure that your chosen operating system or cloud environment is listed in one of the following tables before you install Sync Gateway. See the Deprecated Versions section for information about platform support changes, including deprecated platforms.

sync gateway clusters on mixed platforms are not supported. Nodes in a sync gateway 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.
Table 1. Supported Operating Systems for Development, Testing, and Production
Operating System Supported Versions

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

8.x

7.x — deprecated at 3.1.0

CentOS

7.x and 8.x — deprecated at 3.1.0

Ubuntu

20.04 LTS and 22.04 LTS

18.04 — deprecated at 3.1.0

Debian

10.x and 11.x

9.x — deprecated at 3.1.0

Windows Server

2019 and 2022

Table 2. Supported Cloud Environments for Development, Testing, and Production
Platform Operating System Supported Versions

AWS

Amazon Linux 2 ARM v8

LTS

Azure

Ubuntu

20.04
18.04 — deprecated at 3.1.0

Google Cloud

Ubuntu

20.04
18.04 — deprecated at 3.1.0

Docker (Docker Hub)

CentOS

7

OpenShift (RedHat Portal)

RHEL

7.2

Table 3. Supported Operating Systems for Development and Testing Only
Operating System Supported Versions

macOS

macOS 11 and 12

Windows

Desktop 10 and 11

Apple M1 ARM64

macOS 11 and 12

Deprecated Versions

Deprecated versions will be removed in a future release and we recommend that you plan to migrate away from the deprecated OS versions.