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From YouTube: Velero Community Meeting/Open Discussion - May 5, 2020

Description

May 5, 2020

Status Updates

steve
updated container base images to ubuntu:focal
fixed a CRD restore issue related to unstructured conversion functions
fixed an issue with unresolvable includes/excludes
updated plugin server code to ignore unrecognized flags, and added special handling for --features flag in Velero
reviews
carlisia
continuing with the new BSL: controller (https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/2490); New: added ValidationFrequency / LastValidationTime, adding validation on BSL create/update events, using status/phase to validate backups
ashish
CSI work:
Deleting CSI objects and cleaningup storage snapshots on backup deletion
Syncing in CSI objects during backup sync-in. Mainly to ensure they are deleted on backup deletion/ expiry.
Testing.
Fixup in persisting backup here
PR reviews
Investigate why we are unable to install ca-certificate package on ARM builds
nrb
Almost done with CRD back up work in https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/2478. Want to grab a few more samples today if I can
specifically want to get prometheus objects as mentioned in https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/2370
Reviewing CSI work, need to finish up the describe output too
On community support this week
Will be handling the v1.4 release
Will be on Crossplane’s TBS YouTube series Thursday with Carlisia

Discussion Topics

[carlisia]
Want to add a Tilt setup for rapid development for 1.5. Here’s an example from the cluster api team: https://cluster-api.sigs.k8s.io/developer/tilt.html

Contributor Shoutouts

@jaygridley - [Azure] add support for static storage account keys with restic (https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/2455)
@jones-paul1525 - [AWS] update AWS SDK to enable some new auth methods (https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-for-aws/pull/41)
@dunglas - [Helm chart] Add support for secret env vars (https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/helm-charts/pull/99)
@austinbv - [Helm chart] Add documentation for having separate providers (https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/helm-charts/pull/100)
@hasheddan [Velero core] Reviewing #2490 for CRD handling