Supported Clients and Features

Uyuni is compatible with a range of client technologies. You can install Salt clients running SUSE Linux Enterprise or another Linux operating system, with a range of hardware options.

This section contains summary of supported client systems. For a detailed list of features available on each client, see the following pages.

1. Supported Client Systems

Client operating system is supported by the organization that supplies the operating system. The versions and SP levels must be under general support (normal or LTSS) to be supported with Uyuni. For details on supported product versions, see https://www.suse.com/lifecycle.

Supported client operating systems are listed in this table. The icons in the table indicate:

  • clients running this operating system are supported by SUSE

  • clients running this operating system are not supported by SUSE

  • clients are under consideration, and may or may not be supported at a later date.

The operating system running on a client is supported by the organization that supplies the operating system.
Table 1. Supported Client Systems and Architectures
Operating System x86-64 ppc64le IBM Z aarch64 arm64 / armhf

SUSE Linux Enterprise 16, 15, 12

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 16, 15, 12

SLE Micro

SL Micro 6.2, 6.1, 6.0

openSUSE Leap Micro

openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Leap 16

openSUSE Leap 15.6

Alibaba Cloud Linux 2

AlmaLinux 10, 9, 8

Amazon Linux 2003, 2

CentOS 7 (**)

Debian 13 (*)

openEuler 22.03

Open Enterprise Server 24.4, 23.4

Oracle Linux 10, 9, 8

Raspberry Pi OS 12, 13

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, 9, 8, 7

Rocky Linux 10, 9, 8

Ubuntu 24.04, 22.04

(*) Debian lists the x86-64 architecture as amd64.

(**) Support for CentOS 7 is limited to migration scenarios targeting SUSE Liberty Linux 7. Standalone use is not supported anymore.

When a distribution reaches its end-of-life (EOL), it enters a three-month grace period for management with Uyuni. During this time, support is considered deprecated.

Once this grace period expires, the product is officially unsupported. Any continued management functionality is provided strictly on a best-effort basis.

For third-party vendor end-of-life dates, see End of Life Dates.

2. Additional Tools Packages

The spacewalk-utils and spacewalk-utils-extras packages can provide additional services and features. Users are advised to stop using the deprecated tools and switch to the alternatives recommended in the documentation.

Table 2. Spacewalk Utilities
Tool Name Description Deprecated?

spacewalk-common-channels

Add channels not provided by SUSE Customer Center

spacewalk-hostname-rename

Change the hostname of the Uyuni Server

spacewalk-clone-by-date

Clone channels by a specific date. This is deprecated tool and user should switch to CLM API.

spacewalk-sync-setup

Set up ISS master and slave organization mappings

spacewalk-manage-channel-lifecycle

Manage channel lifecycles. This is deprecated tool and user should switch to CLM API.