Hi guys, since our company always bets for open source and free alternatives, is there a reason to use Oracle for the Java packages or we can use OpenJDK without fear about breaking environments? We would like to use OpenJDK always, but you guys are not so clear about using it or Oracle. Best regar…

Yes, that is what the support matrix says. We have a single column that lists "Oracle / OpenJDK" because we support both equally (**). If there is something unclear about that page, can you point it out because I cannot see any ambiguity there. (**) Elastic supports OpenJDK builds by the IcedTea …

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jesusgn90 November 26, 2018, 7:58pm 3

Hi @rjernst,

What I meant is as follow:

I have a CentOS 7 instance (example), Is Elasticsearch 6.5.X >= going to work properly regardless of Oracle/OpenJDK?

Best regards,
Jesús

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