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 has certain features that are stable and indicate which features that are experimental.

OpenStack Compute (Nova)

Project

Release

Feature

Expectation

OpenStack Compute (Nova)

Austin

Install from Package

Bug 668342 fixed against Austin release

Austin

Support for KVM

Stable

Austin

Support for Xen

Experimental - partial API coverage.

Austin

Support for Hyper-V

No, see Bexar

Austin

Images without ramdisks

No, see Bexar

Austin

Networking

FlatManager works well; others are experimental

OpenStack Object Storage (Swift)

Project

Release

Feature

Expectation

OpenStack Object Storage (Swift)

Austin

Install from Package

Stable

Austin

Storage and Retrieval

Stable

Austin

Object Size

5GB in Austin release, Bexar release has large object support

OpenStack Imaging Service (Glance)

Project

Release

Feature

Expectation

OpenStack Imaging Service (Glance)

Austin

Install from Package

Not available

Austin

Storage and Retrieval of Images

Experimental

Austin

Connected to Nova

No, see Bexar

Wiki: OpenStackFeatures (last edited 2011-01-19 16:14:22 by ColinNicholson)