Sysdig Agent

The following platforms, distributions, container runtimes, and CPU architectures are supported for the Sysdig agent on Sysdig Secure.

Container Platforms

Sysdig Secure supports the following platforms:

  • Kubernetes v1.11 and above

    Within this, Sysdig supports:

    • Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

    • Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

      Note: AWS Fargate is not supported on EKS

    • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

    • IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service (IKS)

    • RedHat OpenShift Kubernetes Service (ROKS) - 3.11 and above

    • Amazon ECS on EC2

Linux Distributions

Sysdig supports the following distributions:

  • Debian
  • Ubuntu 18.04 and above
  • Ubuntu (Amazon)
  • CentOS
  • Alma Linux
  • Rocky Linux
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
  • SuSE Linux Enterprise Server*
  • RHEL CoreOS (RHCOS)
  • Fedora
  • Fedora CoreOS
  • Linux Mint
  • Amazon Linux
  • Amazon Linux v2
  • Amazon Linux v3
  • Amazon Bottlerocket
  • Google Container Optimized OS (COS)
  • Oracle Linux (UEH)
  • Oracle Linux (RHCK)

* Linux service install is not supported on SuSE Linux Enterprise Server.

Container Runtimes

Sysdig supports the following Container Runtimes:

  • Docker
  • LXC
  • CRI-O
  • containerd*
  • Podman
  • Mesos

CPU Architectures

  • X86
  • ARM**
  • s390x (zLinux)***

* Standalone containers that use the containerd Runtime are not supported.

** Prebuilt probes and agent installation using the agent container are not supported.

*** Prebuilt probes, Captures and agent installation using the agent container are not supported. s390x supports only RHEL and OpenShift.

Next Steps

Install on a Kubernetes cluster

Install on a Host

Install on an ECS cluster on EC2

Install on an ECS Fargate cluster