| id | providers-reference | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| title | Infrastructure Providers Reference | |||||
| sidebar_label | Providers | |||||
| description | Complete reference of supported infrastructure providers, requirements, and configuration. | |||||
| doc_type | reference | |||||
| audience | platform engineers, operators | |||||
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Purpose: Complete reference of the GA infrastructure provider surface and its support boundaries.
| Provider | GA Status | Provisioning Model | Deployment Support | Drift Detection | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenStack | GA | Automated | Kubespray, Kamaji | Detect + limited reconcile | Most complete automation path |
| VMware | GA | Pre-provisioned VMs | Kubespray, Kamaji | Detect only | Canonical name is vmware; vsphere is an alias |
| Kind | GA for local/dev | Built-in local runtime | Kind bootstrap flow | Not applicable | Use for development and CI only |
| Baremetal | GA | Pre-provisioned hosts | Kubespray | Not applicable | Manual provisioning and host lifecycle |
| AWS | Non-GA infrastructure provider | Not supported for GA cluster provisioning | N/A | Removed from drift registry | AWS service integrations remain supported where used by platform services |
opencenter cluster drift currently supports:
openstackvmware
kind and baremetal do not register infrastructure drift backends because they do not own cloud-resource reconciliation. AWS is intentionally excluded from the GA drift registry.
- Use
vmwarein configuration, examples, and documentation. - Existing
vsphereconfiguration values continue to load and validate as a compatibility alias.
Windows worker guidance remains historical and is not part of the GA support boundary. The supported GA platform path is Linux control plane plus Linux workers.