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Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes OpenShift Management Cluster Version Compatibility

Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes OpenShift Management Cluster version compatibility. MCE 2.17 supports hosted-control-plane management clusters running OpenShift 4.20…

5Version groups
5Documented constraints
2026-10-08Last verified

Quick answer

OpenShift Management Cluster compatibility by Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes version

Supported and tested versions have compatibility evidence. Recommended and bundled versions describe upstream choices without establishing compatibility. Versions outside the documented coverage are unknown, not necessarily incompatible.

Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes version

2.17

Supported OpenShift Management Cluster versions

>=4.20 <4.23

MCE 2.17 supports hosted-control-plane management clusters running OpenShift 4.20 through 4.22.

Single-node OpenShift is not supported as a hosted-control-plane management cluster.

high confidence · verified 2026-10-08 · hub runtime

Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes version

2.16

Supported OpenShift Management Cluster versions

>=4.19 <4.23

RHACM 2.16 lists OpenShift 4.19 through 4.22 as supported hub and managed cluster versions.

high confidence · verified 2026-10-08 · hub runtime

Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes version

2.15

Supported OpenShift Management Cluster versions

>=4.18 <4.22

MCE 2.10 lists OpenShift 4.18, 4.19, 4.20, and 4.21 as supported hub cluster versions.

high confidence · verified 2026-10-08 · hub runtime

Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes version

2.14

Supported OpenShift Management Cluster versions

>=4.17 <4.21

RHACM 2.14 lists OpenShift 4.17 through 4.20 as supported hub and managed cluster versions.

high confidence · verified 2026-10-08 · hub runtime

Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes version

2.13

Supported OpenShift Management Cluster versions

>=4.16 <4.20

MCE 2.8 lists OpenShift 4.16, 4.17, 4.18, and 4.19 as supported hub cluster versions.

high confidence · verified 2026-10-08 · hub runtime

Primary evidence

Sources

Every constraint above is backed by upstream documentation, tagged source, release notes, or another project-owned primary source.

  1. OpenShift 4.22 hosted control planes support matricesAccessed 2026-10-08
  2. Red Hat OpenShift Operator Life Cycles - RHACM and MCEAccessed 2026-10-08
  3. Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.16 Support MatrixAccessed 2026-10-08
  4. The multicluster engine for Kubernetes operator 2.10 Support MatrixAccessed 2026-10-08
  5. Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.15 Support MatrixAccessed 2026-10-08
  6. Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.14 Support MatrixAccessed 2026-10-08
  7. The multicluster engine for Kubernetes operator 2.8 Support MatrixAccessed 2026-10-08
  8. Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.13 Support MatrixAccessed 2026-10-08