# ELK OS Suggestion

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-os-suggestion/211387>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 10, 2019, 10:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-os-suggestion/211387 "2019-12-10T22:50:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![SteveP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@SteveP](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/SteveP)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2019, 10:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-os-suggestion/211387/1 "2019-12-10T22:50:04Z")

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I notice that ELK is supported on a number of Linux platforms but is there a recommended OS for first time use? I want to build an ELK stack as separate vms.

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**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2019, 8:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-os-suggestion/211387/2 "2019-12-11T08:37:21Z")

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there is [support and thus testing](https://www.elastic.co/support/matrix) on a variety of images, there is no particular favourite (I'd just try to integrate with my existing infrastructure). The Docker images for example are using UBI or CentOs7, see [https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/blob/master/distribution/docker/build.gradle#L29](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/blob/master/distribution/docker/build.gradle#L29)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2020, 8:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-os-suggestion/211387/3 "2020-01-08T08:37:26Z")

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