Eucalyptus Features (1.2 and 1.3)

Supported

  • Installation
    • Rocks-based "almost-one-button" binary install
    • Experts-only "you-are-on-your-own" source install
    • RPM packages for "non-Rocks" RPM based systems
  • Administration
    • Adding/approving/disabling/deleting users (via the Web interface)
    • Adding/listing/disabling images (Web interface with command line use)
    • Adding/deleting nodes and clusters (via edit of configuration files)
  • Amazon's EC2 compatibility:
    • In terms of command-line tools:
      • ec2-describe-images (currently lists admin-provided images)
      • ec2-add-keypair (key pair generation & upload) and ec2-describe-keypair
      • ec2-run-instances and ec2-terminate-instances
      • ec2-describe-instances
      • ec2-availability-zones

Unsupported

  • Administration
    • Easy image deletion
  • Amazon's EC2 incompatibilities:
    • User-selectable images (bundle & upload)
    • User-selectable kernels
    • Elastic IP addresses
    • In terms of command-line tools:
      • ec2-authorize (firewall control)
      • ec2-bundle-vol (image creation)
      • ec2-register and ec2-deregister (image registration with EC2)
      • ec2-upload-bundle & ec2-delete-bundle (image upload/removal to S3)