Feature Support and Stability

In the spirit of openness and time-saving, this page contains a matrix chart to describe the feature stability by release so that companies, organizations, and individuals can see which version of the OpenStack Image Service (Glance) has certain features that are stable and indicate which features that are experimental.

OpenStack Image Service (Glance)

Feature

Austin

Bexar

Cactus

Diablo1

General

Install from Package

N

Y

Y

Y

Paste.Deploy Server Startup

N

N

Y

Y

Standard Configuration/INI File Processing

N

N

Y

Y

Migration of database on upgrade

N

Y

Y

Y

Logging

N

N

Y

Y

Outbound event notification system

N

N

N

D4

i18n/l10n

N

N

N

D4

Shared Image Groups

N

N

N

D4

Storage Drivers

Filesystem Driver

Y

Y

Y

Y

Read-only HTTP(S) Driver

Y

Y

Y

Y

SWIFT Driver

N

N

Y

Y

S3 Driver

N

N

Y2

D43

Performance and Scalability

Local image cache on API server

N

N

N

D34

Delayed Delete with Periodic Purge from Storage

N

N

N

D3

Client and CLI Tools

Python Glance Client

N

N

Y

Y

Python Glance Client - Support for custom filters and paging

N

N

Y

D2

Python CLI Tool

N

N

Y

Y

Python CLI Tool - Support for custom filters and paging

N

N

N

D4

API

Support for Custom Key/Value Properties Attached to Image Metadata

N

N

Y

Y

Image Checksumming

N

N

Y

Y

Disk and Container Formats Standardized

N

N

Y

Y

Versioning

N

N

N

D1

Paging of image metadata results

N

N

N

D1

Custom Filtering

N

N

N

D1

Custom Ordering

N

N

N

D2

Authentication/Authorization

Integration with Keystone

N

N

N

D4

N - Feature not included

Y - Feature fully supported

E - Feature was experimental

  1. Indicates the milestone release in which a feature was available, Y if the feature was supported in a previous release, or N if the feature was not available.

  2. S3 Driver only implemented GET
  3. S3 Driver implemented POST/PUT/DELETE with completion of LP Bug #713154

  4. Not available on Windows

Wiki: GlanceFeatureMatrix (last edited 2011-08-09 15:28:02 by JayPipes)