Velero Community Meeting / Open Discussion - Jan 12, 2021

Jan 12, 2021

Status Updates

dave
- e2e tests running in Azure
- Working on e2e tests running against all clouds as install target
nrb
Out most of last week due to family emergency
Increase --client-burst & --client-qps if you see this. We’ll get this increased in v1.6
Covering community support w/ Carlisia this week
bridget
Community support last week
Working on multiple credentials support
Need to make a decision on approach to take
Need to follow up on some PRs that have been updated
carlisia
- This week will be PR reviews and addressing code reviews on my PRs
- Sharing community support with Nolan
- PTO this Thu and Fri

Discussion Topics
dave
Azure issues with memory limit and plug-in failure. Hard to debug some plug-in failures.
nrb - There is an issue w/ Azure plugin where object storage chunk uploading uses the maximum memory of the Velero pod.
nrb - Adding ~10 log messages into the Backup CR seems useful, especially when it can’t upload to object store
Dylan
Ability to selectively patch resources on per restore basis.
Use case is Secrets & CRs
User wants to continually patch Secrets vs replace it
Operators watching CRs, they wanted to make sure the operators were going to keep working
Current design of plugins is very much all or nothing.
Plugins should be able to allow mutations or patching
Give post hooks the backup manifest to help
When patching, this is a merge operation. That may result in a merged, incorrect object at the end
Can we add a way to download individual JSON from a backup to then re-submit with Kubectl?
This exists with the velero backup download command, but you need to take it out of a tarball
Can we modify the restoreitemaction plugin API to return an action?
The plugin could identify the relevant fields and return a patch object & the patch action
Action - Alay and Dylan to work on design doc
This is for timing out plugins generically
Enhance the plugins to use the Context for timeouts
carlisia
is HackMD getting slow again? Time to archive?
nrb
Testing is moving along
Need to get multiple credential support design approved
bridget
Can we do a v1.5.3 release in the meantime before 1.6?
nrb: :thumbsup:
We need to include some patches like properly deleting when DeleteItemActions are missing, and fixing include/exclude plugin logic (I don’t have a full list)

Contributor Shoutouts
@justenwalker/Bryson Shepherd (on Slack): fix: missing results in ListObjects/CommonPrefixes
@eyenx: [velero] feat(schedule): add annotation templating