Environment Requirements

Table 1 lists the hardware requirements.

Table 2 lists the OS and software requirements of Istio.

**Table 2** Software versions
Item	Version	Description	How to Obtain
CentOS	OS: 8.1 for ARM Kernel: 4.18.0-147.el8.aarch64	OS compatible with the software to be installed	https://vault.centos.org/8.1.1911/isos/aarch64/CentOS-8.1.1911-aarch64-dvd1.iso
openEuler	OS: 20.03 LTS for ARM Kernel: 4.19.90-2003.4.0.0036.oe1.aarch64	OS compatible with the software to be installed	https://repo.openeuler.org/openEuler-20.03-LTS/ISO/aarch64/openEuler-20.03-LTS-everything-aarch64-dvd.iso
Istio	1.8.1	Software to be installed	https://github.com/istio/istio/releases/download/1.8.1/istio-1.8.1-linux-arm64.tar.gz

Parent topic: Istio 1.8.1 Installation Guide (CentOS 8.1 and openEuler 20.03)