Legacy Setup Guides

Legacy Setup Guides#

Warning

These guides are for end-of-life operating systems and are kept for historical reference only.

Do not use these for new deployments.

For current deployments, use:

  • Ubuntu 24.04/22.04/20.04: See etc/scripts/bootstrap/ in your Graphistry distribution

  • RHEL 8.x/9.x: See etc/scripts/bootstrap/ or rhel8_prereqs_install.sh in docs

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)#

End of Life: April 2023 (Standard Support), April 2028 (ESM for Ubuntu Pro only)

Why deprecated:

  • No longer receives free security updates from Canonical

  • NVIDIA drivers and CUDA toolkits no longer tested against Ubuntu 18.04

  • Docker and containerd have dropped official Ubuntu 18.04 support

  • Guide references outdated components: CUDA 10.2, Driver 430.26, docker-compose 1.24.1

Migration path: Upgrade to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS or 24.04 LTS

RHEL 7.6#

End of Life:

  • RHEL 7 Maintenance Support ended June 30, 2024

  • RHEL 7 Extended Life Cycle Support (ELS) available until June 30, 2028 (paid add-on)

Why deprecated:

  • RHEL 7.x uses older kernel (3.10) incompatible with modern NVIDIA drivers (535+)

  • NVIDIA RAPIDS no longer supports RHEL 7.x

  • Guide references outdated components: RAPIDS 0.7, Driver 430.40, docker-compose 1.24.1

  • CentOS 7 (RHEL 7 derivative) reached EOL June 30, 2024

Migration path: Upgrade to RHEL 8.x or 9.x

Legacy Guides