Supported Environments

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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