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From YouTube: Velero Community Meeting/Open Discussion - May 12, 2020

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May 12, 2020
The v1.4.0-beta.1 release is out! Please try it out in your non-critical environments and give us feedback.

Status Updates
[carlisia]
Lotsa PR reviews
Moving our BSL CRD to a kubebuilder CRD + controller (Vince Prignano has been offering guidance)
Next:
move BSL logic out of the controller
add handlers to create/update
[ashish]
You can now supply feature flags to Velero using the Velero CLI. Read more about it here
Getting CSI integration with Velero ready to ship. Take a look at the CSI page on our website
Backup syncing: include CSI API objects
Backup deletion: cleaning up storage snapshots on backup deletion.
Set up Github actions to build and push container images for velero-csi-plugin. Hoping to do this for all our repos.
steve
finalizing things for v1.4.0-beta.1
starting to look at 1.5 planning
nrb
Writing the v1.4 blog post
Catching up reviews that I pushed out in order to get the beta out; particularly want to get a look at the restore hooks document this week
Will be testing v1.4.0-beta.1 against a few different platforms and versions of Kubernetes to verify the overall package
Some docs PRs to get in for the GA release


Discussion Topics
stephanie

Review community feature reqeust for backing up restic volumes by default
Detailed product requirements are available and we will be providing a review of the three main use cases during this meeting.
You can find the product requirements here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i5IQfuOtsHhGuYiiTrCZ6zjVhtKWLRqV/view?usp=sharing
And, sample annotations to illustrate the main product use cases are here (these are also included in the UI/UX section of the requirements doc): https://gist.github.com/skriss/dccc494aea67a47473e184c18aac9af6
vitta

Backup/Restore progress for operations performed by velero plugins
In similar lines, if plugin have their own CRs (similar to PVB, PVR), how to get those CRs backed up from source cluster and get them synced at destination cluster regularly?
Finalizers on Backup CRs to protect data from getting deleted