Homeassistant-supervised should run on Ubuntu?

Hello. I am not that experienced with docker, but I found that within docker, the container can run in other linux distro provided that kernel is the same. So why is Ubuntu not supported for hass-supervised and Debian is, if the container itself can run as “Debian” within Ubuntu?

I followed homeassistant-supervised installation guide on Ubuntu and of course I have got warnings about misaligned version of Linux, but should it be possible to configure the container that it runs in Debian environment?

Jan

Debian OS was chosen as the developers do not have the resources to support all other operating systems.

This is probably the worst type of supported installation to choose and is only barely tolerated by the developers under some very strict conditions:

If you are happy managing Docker containers then choose a Container install instead.

If you want access to managed containers (add-ons), choose Home Assistant OS in some type of VM.

Thanks. The docker installation is a bit unclear, I found several guides with different info:

  1. docker installation of home assistant core, not supervised
  2. docker installation of supervised, but with note that it only runs on Debian not Ubuntu (“Debian Linux Debian 11 aka Bullseye (no derivatives)”). Why is that? If it is Debian container and it runs on debian-supported kernel, then it should not matter what is the host system, right? Yet it gave me errors about OS…

It is not a Debian container. Debian is the required underlying OS as per the linked ADRs in my post above.

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