Content Delivery operating system support history for microservices

SDL Web 8.5 Content Delivery has a number of changed operating system prerequisites compared to SDL Tridion 2013 SP1 HR1 or SDL Web 8 with Cumulative Update 1 applied for Server Role software components that are now microservices (either Web application-based microservices or standalone microservices). Note that all operating systems that are neither Windows-based nor Linux-based are deprecated.

In the following tables: N=not supported, Y=supported, D=Deprecated (support may be dropped in the following version release), Dr=Dropped (support is definitely dropped in the following version release), P=Probably dropped (support is probably dropped in the following version release):

Windows operating systems:

Microsoft Windows Operating system2013 SP1 HR1v8v8.5
Windows 2008 R2 SP1 (x64)YYP
Windows Server 2012 (x64)DrNN
Windows Server 2012 R2 (x64)YYN
Windows Server 2012 R2 with Update (x64)NNY
Windows Server 2016 (x64)NNY

Non-Windows operating systems:

VendorOperating system2013 SP1 HR1v8v8.5
HPUX 11i V2YDD
HPUX 11i V3YDD
IBMAIX 6.1YDD
IBMAIX 7.1YDD
RedhatEnterprise Linux 5.9DrNN
RedhatEnterprise Linux 5.10YNN
RedhatEnterprise Linux 6.4YNN
RedhatEnterprise Linux 6.7NYP
RedhatEnterprise Linux 6.8NNY
RedhatEnterprise Linux 7.1NYP
RedhatEnterprise Linux 7.3NNY
RedhatEnterprise Linux 7.4NNY
OracleSolaris 10 (formerly known as Sun Solaris 10)YDD
OracleSolaris 11YDD