# Best Operation System - Supporting Matrix

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/best-operation-system-supporting-matrix/11489>\
**Category:** SUSE Rancher Prime\
**Created:** [August 16, 2018, 3:59pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/best-operation-system-supporting-matrix/11489 "2018-08-16T15:59:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![ricardo-aspira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5daacb/32.png) [@ricardo-aspira](https://forums.suse.com/u/ricardo-aspira)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 3:59pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/best-operation-system-supporting-matrix/11489/1 "2018-08-16T15:59:13Z")

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Hello Guys,

I am a little bit newbie at Docker, infrastructure management and container orchestration but after reading a bunch of articles, I am feeling comfortable to move into Rancher Server direction as a POC and after that as a pilot project.

My concern is related to which OS to use as a layer for our Rancher Server. I want to be in compliance with supported operation systems since we would be moving into supporting plans later in Production.

I have seen some people saying that Debian 8 was a good choice but as I read it is not on supported matrix:  
[https://rancher.com/support-maintenance-terms/](https://rancher.com/support-maintenance-terms/)

Am I correct on that?

Maybe the Rancher OS is the best choice I know but I would like to avoid that right now because our infrastructure has no experience on containers so putting a OS that is container based might bring some problems and put all stuff on my back.

I would like to read some options from you guys.

Thanks a ton for your time!