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Updated supported platforms to reflect derived platforms (#4022)
Signed-off-by: Sudharshan Kaushik Kannan <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Sudharshan Kaushik Kannan <[email protected]>
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Many of these platforms are forks, clones, or otherwise derivative of platforms that Chef commercially supports. Continued functionality for these platforms is likely, but not guaranteed. Unsupported platforms may have missing or non-operative functionality. As always, we welcome community contributions from anyone looking to expand community support for platforms in Chef products.
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### Support for Derived Platforms
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Derived platforms are platforms that are fundamentally the same as a commercially supported platform. Chef does not explicitly test derived platforms as part of our development and release process, only commercially supported platforms are tested. Derived platforms are only supported until that platform diverges from a commercially supported parent platform. Continued functionality for derived platforms is likely, but not guaranteed.
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## Platforms
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The sections below list the platforms that Chef Software supports.
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<td><code>7.1</code> (TL5 SP2 or higher, recommended), <code>7.2</code></td>
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<td>AlmaLinux</td>
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<td><code>x86_64</code>, <code>aarch64</code></td>
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<td><code>8.x</code></td>
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<td>Amazon Linux</td>
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<td><code>x86_64</code>, <code>aarch64</code></td>
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<td><code>2.x</code></td>
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<td><code>6.x</code>, <code>7.x</code>, <code>8.x</code></td>
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<td>Rocky Linux</td>
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<td><code>x86_64</code>, <code>aarch64</code></td>
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<td>Red Hat Enterprise Linux</td>
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<td><code>x86_64</code>, <code>ppc64le</code> (7.x only), <code>ppc64</code> (7.x only), <code>aarch64</code> (7.x / 8.x only), <code>s390x</code></td>
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<td><code>6.x</code>, <code>7.x</code>, <code>8.x</code></td>
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#### Derived platforms
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The following table lists supported derived platforms and versions for Chef Infra Client.
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See our policy on [support for derived platforms](#support-for-derived-platforms) for more information.
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<table>
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<thead>
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<tr class="header">
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<th>Platform</th>
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<th>Architecture</th>
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<th>Version</th>
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<th>Parent platform</th>
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</thead>
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<tbody>
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<td>AlmaLinux</td>
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<td><code>x86_64</code>, <code>aarch64</code></td>
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<td><code>8.x</code></td>
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<td>CentOS</td>
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</tr>
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<td>Rocky Linux</td>
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<td><code>x86_64</code>, <code>aarch64</code></td>
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<td><code>8.x</code></td>
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<td>CentOS</td>
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#### Community Support
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The following platforms are supported only using the community:
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<td><code>x86_64</code></td>
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<td>Ubuntu</td>
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#### Derived platforms
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The following table lists supported derived platforms and versions for Chef Workstation.
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See our policy on [support for derived platforms](#support-for-derived-platforms) for more information.
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<thead>
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<th>Platform</th>
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<th>Architecture</th>
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<th>Version</th>
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<th>Parent platform</th>
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<td>AlmaLinux</td>
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<td><code>x86_64</code></td>
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<td><code>8.x</code></td>
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<td>CentOS</td>
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<td>Rocky Linux</td>
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<td>CentOS</td>
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### Chef InSpec
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#### Commercial Support
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#### Derived platforms
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The following table lists supported derived platforms and versions for Chef InSpec.
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See our policy on [support for derived platforms](#support-for-derived-platforms) for more information.
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<th>Platform</th>
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<th>Parent platform</th>
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<td>AlmaLinux</td>
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<td><code>x86_64</code>, <code>aarch64</code></td>
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Chef InSpec Target Mode (`inspec --target`) may be functional on
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#### Derived platforms
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See our policy on [support for derived platforms](#support-for-derived-platforms) for more information.
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## Platform End-of-Life Policy
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Chef's products on particular platforms and versions reach

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