Version 1.8. This version is no longer supported. For information about how to upgrade to version 1.9, see Upgrading Anthos on bare metal in the 1.9 documentation. For more information about supported and unsupported versions, see the Version history page in the latest documentation.
Google Distributed Cloud runs on Linux. Google Distributed Cloud version
1.8.0 and subsequent patch releases support the following Linux
distributions and versions. Google Distributed Cloud works with the kernels
supplied with supported distributions.
Supported operating systems must also have Linux kernels with the option CONFIG_BPF_JIT=y. To find out whether this option is enabled, run grep CONFIG_BPF_JIT /boot/config-$(uname -r).
For instructions to configure the operating system on your node machines, see
the following:
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