Unix-based deployments | System Requirements

Supported Operating Systems

  • CentOS 9.0+

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0+

  • Debian 10.0+

  • Ubuntu 18.04+

  • Amazon Linux 2

Installation details

MetaDefender Storage Security default installation path is using the /etc/mdss folder for storing resources. The package requires the following dependencies that are automatically installed if they don’t already exist on the system:

Debian / Ubuntu

Red Hat Enterprise / CentOS

  • curl

  • openssl (default version on host)

  • openssl (version 3.2.0 on container)

  • ca-certificates

  • sudo

  • jq

  • iproute2

  • apt-utils

  • gnupg-agent

  • apt-transport-https

  • software-properties-common

  • curl

  • openssl (default version on host)

  • openssl (version 3.2.0 on container)

  • ca-certificates

  • sudo

  • jq

  • iproute

  • yum-utils

  • gnupg2

  • wget

  • device-mapper-persistent-data

  • lvm2

Installation components

MetaDefender Storage Security automatically deploys the following components:

Name

Version

Type

Docker Engine

system defined*

Containerization technology

Docker Compose

system defined*

Container orchestration

MongoDb

v6.0

Database

RabbitMQ

v3.13

Message broker

NGINX

stable

Web server

Redis Cache

v7.0

Data Cache

System defined - our system uses the existing Docker version if available. If not, it automatically downloads the latest stable version using the docker-install script.