Purpose: Complete reference of the GA infrastructure provider surface and its support boundaries.
Provider Matrix
| 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 |
Drift Detection Support
opencenter cluster drift currently supports:
-
openstack -
vmware
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.