What operating systems does Metal support?

As of October 2024, Equinix Metal supports a range of operating systems , including:

• AlmaLinux
• Alpine Linux
• Debian
• Flatcar Linux
• FreeBSD
• Nutanix
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Rocky Linux
• Ubuntu
• VMware Cloud Foundation
• VyOS
• Windows Server

If we do not offer an operating system or a version of an operating system that meets your use-case, you can bring your own OS images using Custom iPXE.

Licensed operating systems may require that you bring your own license, or are provided with an extra per-hour and sometimes also a per-core fee.

All of our operating system images go through a validation process in order to be provisionable on our server plans. Not all operating systems are available on every server.

Which operating systems are available on a specific server is listed on its product page and on the OS Compatibility page.