Any known issues installing Cassandra on a RHEL 7 server?
bruno santos [SLC] [DevOps Advocate] Selected answer as best 16th June 2023
Hi Bruno,
I'm not aware of any known issues. We are running the following version ourselves in production:
I can't give you 100% guarantee but would be very surprised that RHEL 7 would pose specific issues.
Apache Cassandra themselves claim to be compatible with a wide array of Linux distributions, see:
https://cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest/cassandra/getting_started/installing.html
Hope this helps.
Miguel Obregon [SLC] [DevOps Catalyst] Edited comment 17th June 2023
Hi Bruno,
Keep in mind the end of the maintenance for RHEL7 will be on June 2024.
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/end-maintenance-red-hat-enterprise-linux-7-almost-here
If you are aiming to use it in a production environment, try to go for a newer version (RHEL8, or 9 )