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.