As a developer I would want to install Ansible Playbook on Any Linux Distribution or Mac OS

[pranavjrat]

Update existing playbook(ansible/xroad_dev.yml) so that installation steps work seamlessly on any major Linux distribution, not just Ubuntu or Debian. This includes support for RedHat, CentOS, Fedora, Arch, Alpine, and other popular distros along with Mac OS.

[petkivim]

Hi @pranavjrat ! Thanks for submitting the idea! Currently, different X-Road components support the following platforms:

• Central Server: Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04
• Security Server: Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04, Red Hat (RHEL) 8 and 9, Docker
• Configuration Proxy: Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04

Before releasing a new X-Road version, NIIS tests that it works on all supported platforms. In addition, upgrades from the two previous versions to the latest version are tested as well.

Expanding the list of supported platforms to include additional Linux distributions and/or macOS would require adding those platforms to the testing process. It might also require creating separate installation guides (as is already the case for Ubuntu and RHEL). This would significantly increase the effort needed to release new X-Road versions and provide ongoing support. For these reasons, the list of supported platforms is unlikely to change in the near future.

However, the Security Server can be deployed on different platforms using the Security Server Sidecar Docker image. For example, you can run Kubernetes on various host operating systems and deploy the Security Server on Kubernetes. This allows you to choose your preferred host operating system without requiring official support for it in X-Road.