Supported Debian Features

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

The operating system you run on a client is supported by the organization that supplies the operating system. Debian is supported by the Debian 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 Debian Operating Systems
Feature	Debian 11	Debian 12
Client
System packages	Debian Community	Debian Community
Registration	Salt	Salt
Install packages	Salt	Salt
Apply patches
Remote commands	Salt	Salt
System package states	Salt	Salt
System custom states	Salt	Salt
Group custom states	Salt	Salt
Organization custom states	Salt	Salt
System set manager (SSM)	Salt	Salt
Product migration	N/A	N/A
Basic Virtual Guest Management	Salt	Salt
Advanced Virtual Guest Management	Salt	Salt
Virtual Guest Installation (Kickstart), as Host OS
Virtual Guest Installation (image template), as Host OS	Salt	Salt
System deployment (PXE/Kickstart)
System redeployment (Kickstart)
Contact methods	Salt: ZeroMQ, Salt-SSH	Salt: ZeroMQ, Salt-SSH
Works with SUSE Manager Proxy	Salt	Salt
Action chains	Salt	Salt
Staging (pre-download of packages)	Salt	Salt
Duplicate package reporting	Salt	Salt
CVE auditing
SCAP auditing
Package verification
Package locking
System locking
Maintenance Windows
System snapshot
Configuration file management	Salt	Salt
Package profiles	Salt: Profiles supported, Sync not supported	Salt: Profiles supported, Sync not supported
Power management
Monitoring server
Monitoring clients	Salt	Salt
Docker buildhost
Build Docker image with OS	Salt	Salt
Kiwi buildhost
Build Kiwi image with OS
Recurring Actions	Salt	Salt
AppStreams	N/A	N/A
Yomi	N/A	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.