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
- 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)