Supported Environments

    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)

    9.x

    8.x — Deprecated at 3.2.0

    Alma Linux

    9.x

    Rocky Linux

    9.x

    Ubuntu

    24.04 LTS ARM, 24.04 LTS x86

    22.04 LTS ARM, 22.04 LTS x86

    20.04 LTS ARM, 20.04 LTS x86

    Debian

    12.x

    11.x

    10.x — Deprecated at 3.2.0

    Windows Server

    2022

    2019 — Deprecated at 3.2.0

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

    AWS

    Amazon Linux 2023 (ARM, x86), Amazon Linux 2 (ARM, x86)

    LTS

    Azure

    Ubuntu

    24.04 LTS (ARM, x86), 22.04 LTS (ARM, x86), 20.04 LTS (ARM, x86)

    Google Cloud

    Ubuntu

    24.04 LTS (ARM, x86) 22.04 LTS (ARM, x86), 20.04 LTS (ARM, x86)

    OpenShift (RedHat Portal)

    RHEL

    9

    RHEL

    8 — Deprecated at 3.2.0

    Ubuntu

    24.04 LTS, 22.04 LTS, 20.04 LTS

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

    macOS

    14

    13

    12 — Deprecated at 3.2.0

    Windows Desktop

    11

    10

    Apple M1 ARM64

    macOS 14

    macOS 13

    macOS 12 — Deprecated at 3.2.0

    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.

    Table 4. Deprecated Versions Table
    Operating System Versions Deprecation Release

    Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

    8

    3.2.0

    Ubuntu

    20.04 LTS ARM, 20.04 LTS x86

    3.2.0

    Debian

    10

    3.2.0

    Windows Server

    2019

    3.2.0

    MacOS

    12

    3.2.0