Deploying ThoughtSpot on your own OS

Run ThoughtSpot on an Amazon Linux 2 (AL2), RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), or Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) image that your organization manages internally.

Deploying ThoughtSpot on your own OS enables your organization to manage the OS and perform SysAdmin tasks.

Supported platforms

ThoughtSpot certifies AL2, RHEL, and OEL on the following platforms and versions:

AL2 supported platforms

Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 platform

RHEL supported platforms and versions

ThoughtSpot supports RHEL 7.8, 7.9, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 8.7, and 8.8.

ThoughtSpot certifies RHEL 7.8 and 7.9 on the following platforms:

Bare metal deployments on the two ThoughtSpot-certified hardware appliances: DELL and SMC
Cloud deployments: Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
VMware

ThoughtSpot certifies RHEL 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 8.7, and 8.8 on the following platforms:

Bare metal deployments on the ThoughtSpot-certified hardware appliance: SMC
Cloud deployments: Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
VMware

ThoughtSpot does not certify RHEL 8 versions on Dell.

If your organization requires that privilege escalation take place through an external tool that integrates with ansible, refer to Manage cluster operations on ansible for clusters that use RHEL.