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diff --git a/packaging/PLATFORM_SUPPORT.md b/packaging/PLATFORM_SUPPORT.md deleted file mode 100644 index 591b850afd..0000000000 --- a/packaging/PLATFORM_SUPPORT.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,196 +0,0 @@ -<!-- -title: "Platform support policy" -sidebar_label: "Platform support policy" -custom_edit_url: "https://github.com/netdata/netdata/edit/master/packaging/PLATFORM_SUPPORT.md" -learn_status: "Published" -sidebar_position: "1" -learn_topic_type: "Tasks" -learn_rel_path: "Installation" -learn_docs_purpose: "Present all the supported platform in the Netdata solution" ---> - -# Platform support policy - -Netdata defines three tiers of official support: - -- [Core](#core) -- [Intermediate](#intermediate) -- [Community](#community) - -Each tier defines different guarantees for platforms in that tier, described below in the section about that tier. - -Additionally, we define two categories for special cases that we do not support: - -- [Third-party supported platforms](#third-party-supported-platforms) -- [Previously supported platforms](#previously-supported-platforms) - -These two categories are explained further below. - -Any platforms not listed in any of these categories may or may not work. - -The following table shows a general outline of the various support tiers and categories. - -| | Bug Support | Guaranteed Configurations | CI Coverage | Native Packages | Static Build Support | -| - | ----------- | ------------------------- | ----------- | --------------- | -------------------- | -| Core | High priority | Everything but rare edge cases | Full | Yes, if we can provide them | Full | -| Intermediate | Normal priority | Common cases | Partial (CI mostly equivalent to **Core**, but possibly with some gaps, and not required to pass) | Possibly | Full | -| Community | Best Effort | Default only | None | No | Best Effort | -| Third-party Supported | Users directed to platform maintainers | None | None | No | Best Effort | -| Previously Supported | Users asked to upgrade | None | None | Yes, but only already published versions | Best Effort | - -- ‘Bug Support’: How we handle of platform-specific bugs. -- ‘Guaranteed Configurations’: Which runtime configurations for the agent we try to guarantee will work with minimal - effort from users. -- ‘CI Coverage’: What level of coverage we provide for the platform in CI. -- ‘Native Packages’: Whether we provide native packages for the system package manager for the platform. -- ‘Static Build Support’: How well our static builds are expected to work on the platform. - -## Currently supported platforms - -### Core - -Platforms in the core support tier are our top priority. They are covered rigorously in our CI, usually -include official binary packages, and any platform-specific bugs receive a high priority. From the perspective -of our developers, platforms in the core support tier _must_ work, with almost no exceptions. -Our [static builds](#static-builds) are expected to work on these platforms if available. Source-based installs are -expected -to work on these platforms with minimal user effort. - -| Platform | Version | Official Native Packages | Notes | -|--------------------------|----------------|----------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| -| Alpine Linux | 3.18 | No | The latest release of Alpine Linux is guaranteed to remain at **Core** tier due to usage for our Docker images | -| Alma Linux | 9.x | x86\_64, AArch64 | Also includes support for Rocky Linux and other ABI compatible RHEL derivatives | -| Alma Linux | 8.x | x86\_64, AArch64 | Also includes support for Rocky Linux and other ABI compatible RHEL derivatives | -| Amazon Linux | 2023 | x86\_64, AArch64 | | -| Amazon Linux | 2 | x86\_64, AArch64 | | -| CentOS | 7.x | x86\_64 | | -| Docker | 19.03 or newer | x86\_64, i386, ARMv7, AArch64, POWER8+ | See our [Docker documentation](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/packaging/docker/README.md) for more info on using Netdata on Docker | -| Debian | 12.x | x86\_64, i386, ARMv7, AArch64 | | -| Debian | 11.x | x86\_64, i386, ARMv7, AArch64 | | -| Debian | 10.x | x86\_64, i386, ARMv7, AArch64 | | -| Fedora | 39 | x86\_64, AArch64 | | -| Fedora | 38 | x86\_64, AArch64 | | -| Fedora | 37 | x86\_64, AArch64 | | -| openSUSE | Leap 15.5 | x86\_64, AArch64 | | -| openSUSE | Leap 15.4 | x86\_64, AArch64 | | -| Oracle Linux | 9.x | x86\_64, AArch64 | | -| Oracle Linux | 8.x | x86\_64, AArch64 | | -| Red Hat Enterprise Linux | 9.x | x86\_64, AArch64 | | -| Red Hat Enterprise Linux | 8.x | x86\_64, AArch64 | | -| Red Hat Enterprise Linux | 7.x | x86\_64 | | -| Ubuntu | 23.10 | x86\_64, AArch64, ARMv7 | | -| Ubuntu | 22.04 | x86\_64, ARMv7, AArch64 | | -| Ubuntu | 20.04 | x86\_64, ARMv7, AArch64 | | - - -### Intermediate - -Platforms in the intermediate support tier are those which Netdata wants to support, but cannot justify core level -support for. They are also covered in CI, but not as rigorously as the core tier. They may or may not include -official binary packages, and any platform-specific bugs receive a normal priority. Generally, we will add new -platforms that we officially support ourselves to the intermediate tier. Our [static builds](#static-builds) are -expected to work on these platforms if available. Source-based installs are expected to work on these platforms -with minimal user effort. - -| Platform | Version | Official Native Packages | Notes | -|---------------|------------|--------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| -| Alpine Linux | Edge | No | | -| Alpine Linux | 3.17 | No | | -| Alpine Linux | 3.16 | No | | -| Arch Linux | Latest | No | We officially recommend the community packages available for Arch Linux | -| Manjaro Linux | Latest | No | We officially recommend the community packages available for Arch Linux | -| openSUSE | Tumbleweed | x86\_64, AArch64 | Scheduled for promotion to Core tier at some point after the release of v1.41.0 of the Netdata Agent | - -### Community - -Platforms in the community support tier are those which are primarily supported by community contributors. They may -receive some support from Netdata, but are only a best-effort affair. When a community member makes a contribution -to add support for a new platform, that platform generally will start in this tier. Our [static builds](#static-builds) -are expected to work on these platforms if available. Source-based installs are usually expected to work on these -platforms, but may require some extra effort from users. - -| Platform | Version | Official Native Packages | Notes | -|--------------|------------|--------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| -| Clear Linux | Latest | No | | -| Debian | Sid | No | | -| Fedora | Rawhide | No | | -| FreeBSD | 13-STABLE | No | Netdata is included in the FreeBSD Ports Tree, and this is the recommended installation method on FreeBSD | -| Gentoo | Latest | No | | -| macOS | 13 | No | Currently only works for Intel-based hardware. Requires Homebrew for dependencies | -| macOS | 12 | No | Currently only works for Intel-based hardware. Requires Homebrew for dependencies | -| macOS | 11 | No | Currently only works for Intel-based hardware. Requires Homebrew for dependencies. | - -## Third-party supported platforms - -Some platform maintainers actively support Netdata on their platforms even though we do not provide official -support. Third-party supported platforms may work, but the experience of using Netdata on such platforms is not -something we can guarantee. When you use an externally supported platform and report a bug, we will either ask -you to reproduce the issue on a supported platform or submit a support request directly to the platform maintainers. - -Currently, we know of the following platforms having some degree of third-party support for Netdata: - -- NixOS: Netdata’s official installation methods do not support NixOS, but the NixOS maintainers provide their - own Netdata packages for their platform. -- Rockstor: Rockstor provides support for a Netdata add-on for their NAS platform. The Rockstor community and - developers are the primary source for support on their platform. - -## Previously supported platforms - -As platforms become end of life upstream, Netdata will stop officially supporting them. We will not actively break -things on these platforms, but we will also not make any effort to ensure that things keep working on them either. -If you report a bug on a previously supported platforms, we will ask you to reproduce the issue on a currently -supported platform. If the issue is not reproducible, it will be closed. - -We consider a platform to be end of life when the upstream maintainers of that platform stop providing official -support for it themselves, or when that platform transitions into an ‘extended security maintenance’ period. -Platforms that meet these criteria will be immediately transitioned to the **Previously Supported** category, -with no prior warning from Netdata and no deprecation notice, unlike those being dropped for technical reasons, -as our end of support should already coincide with the end of the normal support lifecycle for that platform. - -On occasion, we may also drop support for a platform due to technical limitations. In such cases, this will be -announced in the release notes of the next stable release with a deprecation notice. The platform will be supported -for _that release_, and will be removed from nightlies some time before the next release after that one. - -This is a list of platforms that we have supported in the recent past but no longer officially support: - -| Platform | Version | Notes | -|--------------|-----------|----------------------| -| Alpine Linux | 3.14 | EOL as of 2023-05-01 | -| Alpine Linux | 3.13 | EOL as of 2022-11-01 | -| Debian | 9.x | EOL as of 2022-06-30 | -| Fedora | 37 | EOL as of 2023-12-05 | -| Fedora | 36 | EOL as of 2023-05-18 | -| Fedora | 35 | EOL as of 2022-12-13 | -| openSUSE | Leap 15.4 | EOL as of 2023-12-07 | -| openSUSE | Leap 15.3 | EOL as of 2022-12-01 | -| Ubuntu | 23.04 | EOL as of 2024-01-20 | -| Ubuntu | 22.10 | EOL as of 2023-07-20 | -| Ubuntu | 21.10 | EOL as of 2022-07-31 | -| Ubuntu | 18.04 | EOL as of 2023-04-02 | - -## Static builds - -The Netdata team provides static builds of Netdata for Linux systems with a selection of common CPU -architectures. These static builds are largely self-contained, only requiring a a POSIX-compliant shell on the target -system to provide their basic functionality. Static builds are built in an Alpine Linux environment using musl. This -means that they generally do not support non-local username mappings or exotic name resolution configurations. - -We currently provide static builds for the following CPU architectures: - -- 64-bit x86 -- ARMv7 -- ARMv6 -- AArch64 -- POWER8+ - -## Platform-specific support considerations - -### IPMI - -Our IPMI collector is based on FreeIPMI. Due to upstream limitations in FreeIPMI, we are unable to support our -IPMI collector on POWER-based hardware. - -### Systemd - -Many of our systemd integrations are not supported in our static builds. This is due to a general refusal by the -systemd developers to support static linking (or any C runtime other than glibc), and is not something we can resolve. |