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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)

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