diff --git a/doc/source/introduction.rst b/doc/source/introduction.rst index d12b13b..b6957bf 100644 --- a/doc/source/introduction.rst +++ b/doc/source/introduction.rst @@ -46,10 +46,12 @@ number of drawbacks: resources, test environments can be easily tailored to their intended use case. -One drawback to OVB at this time is that it is generally not compatible with -current public clouds. While it is possible to do an OVB deployment on a -completely stock OpenStack cloud, most public clouds have restrictions (older -OpenStack releases, inability to upload new images, no Heat, etc.) that make -it problematic. At this time, OVB is primarily used with semi-private clouds -configured for ideal compatibility. This situation should improve as more -public clouds move to newer OpenStack releases, however. +One drawback to OVB at this time is that it does have hard requirements on a +few OpenStack features (Heat, Neutron port-security, private image uploads, +for example) that are not all widely available in public clouds. Fortunately, +as they move to newer and newer versions of OpenStack that situation should +improve. + +It should also be noted that without the Nova PXE boot patch, OVB is not +compatible with any workflows that write to the root disk before deployment. +This includes Ironic node cleaning.