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Supported platforms

etcd support for common architectures & operating systems

Support tiers

etcd runs on different platforms, but the guarantees it provides depends on a platform’s support tier:

  • Tier 1: fully supported by etcd maintainers; etcd is guaranteed to pass all tests including functional and robustness tests.

  • Tier 2: etcd is guaranteed to pass integration and end-to-end tests but not necessarily functional or robustness tests.

  • Tier 3: etcd is guaranteed to build, may be lightly tested (or not), and so it should be considered unstable.

Current support

The following table lists currently supported platforms and their corresponding etcd support tier:

Architecture Operating system Support tier Maintainers

AMD64

Linux

1

etcd maintainers

ARM64

Linux

1

etcd maintainers

AMD64

Darwin

3

AMD64

Windows

3

ARM

Linux

3

386

Linux

3

ppc64le

Linux

3

s390x

Linux

3

Unlisted platforms are unsupported.

Supporting a new platform

Want to contribute to etcd as the “official” maintainer of a new platform? In addition to committing to support the platform, you must setup etcd continuous integration (CI) satisfying the following requirements, depending on the support tier:

etcd continuous integration Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3

Build passes

Unit tests pass

Integration and end-to-end tests pass

Robustness tests pass

For an example of setting up tier-2 CI for ARM64, see etcd PR #12928.

Unsupported platforms

To avoid inadvertently running an etcd server on an unsupported platform, etcd prints a warning message and exits immediately unless the environment variable ETCD_UNSUPPORTED_ARCH is set to the target architecture.

32-bit systems

etcd has known issues on 32-bit systems due to a bug in the Go runtime. For more information see the Go issue #599 and the atomic package bug note.

Last modified October 18, 2023: Complete migration to owners file. (bc148e9)