Supported CentOS Features

This table lists the availability of various features on CentOS clients.

The operating system you run on a client is supported by the organization that supplies the operating system. CentOS is supported by the CentOS community.

The icons in this table indicate:

the feature is available on both Salt and traditional clients
the feature is not available
the feature is under consideration, and may or may not be made available at a later date
Traditional the feature is supported only on traditional clients
Salt the feature is supported only on Salt clients.

Table 1. Supported Features on CentOS Operating Systems
Feature	CentOS 7
Client	(plain CentOS)
System packages	CentOS Community
Registration
Install packages
Apply patches (requires CVE ID)	(third-party service required for errata)
Remote commands
System package states	Salt
System custom states	Salt
Group custom states	Salt
Organization custom states	Salt
System set manager (SSM)
Product migration	N/A
Basic Virtual Guest Management
Advanced Virtual Guest Management	Salt
Virtual Guest Installation (Kickstart), as Host OS	Traditional
Virtual Guest Installation (image template), as Host OS
System deployment (PXE/Kickstart)
System redeployment (Kickstart)
Contact methods	Traditional: OSAD, RHNSD, SSH-push. Salt: ZeroMQ, Salt-SSH
Works with SUSE Manager Proxy
Action chains
Staging (pre-download of packages)
Duplicate package reporting
CVE auditing (requires CVE ID)
SCAP auditing
Package verification	Traditional
Package locking
System locking	Traditional
Maintenance Windows
System snapshot	Traditional
Configuration file management
Snapshots and profiles	Traditional. Salt: Profiles supported, Sync not supported
Power management
Monitoring server
Monitored clients	Salt
Docker buildhost
Build Docker image with OS
Kiwi buildhost
Build Kiwi image with OS
Recurring Actions	Salt
AppStreams	N/A
Yomi	N/A

Virtual Guest Management:

In this table, virtual guest management is split into basic and advanced.

Basic virtual guest management includes listing VMs, slow refresh, VM lifecycle actions (start, stop, resume, pause), and modifying VM vCPU and Memory.

Advanced virtual guest management includes all features of Basic virtual guest management plus fast refresh, VM lifecycle actions (delete, reset, power off), modifying VM disk, network, graphical display, and graphical display configuration.