Eucalyptus (1.1)

Supported ¶

• Installation
  • Rocks-based "almost-one-button" binary install
  • Experts-only "you-are-on-your-own" source install

• 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

Unsupported ¶

• Installation
  • Rocks-independent binary install

• 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)