Technical Specifications

This document describes the requirements for NGINX Agent.

Supported Distributions

NGINX Agent can run in most environments. The below list are the supported distributions.

AlmaLinux

• 8 (x86_64, aarch64)
• 9 (x86_64, aarch64)

Alpine Linux

• 3.15 (x86_64, aarch64)
• 3.16 (x86_64, aarch64)
• 3.17 (x86_64, aarch64)
• 3.18 (x86_64, aarch64)

Amazon Linux

• 2023 (x86_64, aarch64)

Amazon Linux 2

• LTS (x86_64, aarch64)

CentOS

• 7.4+ (x86_64, aarch64)

Debian

• 11 (x86_64, aarch64)
• 12 (x86_64, aarch64)

FreeBSD

• 12.1+ (amd64)
• 13 (amd64)

Oracle Linux

• 7.4+ (x86_64)
• 8.1+ (x86_64)
• 9 (x86_64)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

• 7.4+ (x86_64, aarch64)
• 8.1+ (x86_64, aarch64)
• 9.0+ (x86_64, aarch64)

Rocky Linux

• 8 (x86_64, aarch64)
• 9 (x86_64, aarch64)

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)

• 12 SP5 (x86_64)
• 15 SP2 (x86_64)

Ubuntu

• 20.04 LTS (x86_64, aarch64)
• 22.04 LTS (x86_64, aarch64)

Supported Deployment Environments

NGINX Agent can be deployed in the following environments:

• Bare Metal
• Container
• Public Cloud: AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure
• Virtual Machine

Supported NGINX Versions

NGINX Agent works with all supported versions of NGINX Open Source and NGINX Plus.

Sizing Recommendations

Minimum system sizing recommendations for NGINX Agent: