2026 Community Notes

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Meeting call:

https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/27661616185368?p=4ugDrFJ7xcBuAwT1a0

2026-01-15

Attendees

• Rohit @Rohit-BM18
• Shikhar @Shrekster
• Prasad @PrasadG193

Agenda

• Data mover abstraction work is paused till we find new owner.

Community

• Broadcom and bitnami - https://github.com/kanisterio/kanister/issues/3582

  • Vlad can help with the next move to find alternatives to bitnamilegacy.

• Support for operator based app backup:

  • We want to be able to discover the resources of an operator.
  • Using a CRD to trigger a backup may not be sufficient as most operators do not work that way (do not capture all config/volumes etc) for export.
  • Leading towards a per operator functions set that Kanister will need to maintain for these operators.
  • This could extend to generic examples we supply and customers can customize.
  • Shikhar will add operators research in his transition doc. [Shikhar to follow-up on the list of operators]
  • Example PGO operator supports volumes or s3 etc. https://github.com/kanisterio/kanister/pull/2448
  • Prev. KubeOps function was added for similar use case to develop BP for PGO - https://docs.kanister.io/functions.html#kubeops

• Kanister CNCF Sandbox Project Onboarding Tasks

  • CNCF did not want to use DocuSign / Wait for legal [Shikhar to check with Gaurav]
  • Domain transfer [Shikhar] - in progress
    • Gaurav is aware, can help with the next move. [Shikhar to follow-up with Gaurav about the domain transfer]

• Old helm chart versions lifecycle

  • Archive exists, but will be deleted in the future (we will need to make an announcement about that)
  • Next steps: First announce in github and then drop the S3 links from https://github.com/kanisterio/kanister-charts/blob/main/index.yaml. The announcement can refer to the newer index.yaml using https://github.com/kanisterio/kanister/releases/download/0.116.0/kanister-operator-.tgz format for the link.
  • [Pending] Prasad and Shikhar will coordinate to make an announcement and we'll cleanup soon. Prasad can help with initial draft with the use of AI.
    • Prasad waiting for review on announcement draft. Need to decide the time window till when we will be supporting older helm chart.

• [Shikhar] in progress (Shikhar wil pick this u after the domain discussion):

  • Blog on cloudpack for data on veeam.kasten.dev - done / handed this off to Gaurav, pending publish.
  • Blog on enterpriseDB - in progress / pending comments
  • Shikhar to follow-u with Gaurav on the blog and mark done.

• Respond to the backupData method expiration in CNCF slack [Shikhar]

  • We confirmed that the function won't be deprecated. We should remove the note
  • [Prasad] To file an issue to remove the deprecation note

Engineering

• Kanister Release Discussion

  • The release frequency is ad-hoc right now. ~ Once a month.
  • We can cut release this week

• Release should push a notice to CNCF Slack instance, X/Twitter.

  • We have automation to post msg in CNCF Slack
  • We have @kanisterio handle on twitter, maybe we should find the owner and make some activity [Shikhar]
  • [Team] post release notes in mailing lists - see if we can automate that [Prasad to check on mailing list]

• Datamover Server (replace kopia) in Kanister

  • In progress: https://github.com/kanisterio/kanister/pull/3389 (design PR)
  • Implementation is prototyped in https://github.com/kanisterio/datamover (on-hold until we find new owner)

• Roadmap items - up for grabs

  • https://github.com/kanisterio/kanister/issues/3583 [Prasad to check if Saqib can pick this up]

Triage and Review

• Github Code Scanning Alerts
• Bugs
  • • take https://github.com/kanisterio/kanister/issues/3603 [high priority, PR in review https://github.com/kanisterio/kanister/pull/3711]
  • • https://github.com/kanisterio/kanister/issues/3725 - Probably we need to fix reconcile logic for ActionSet CR to update the state after controller restart.
      • Need to find owner
  • [Rohit] - look into https://github.com/kanisterio/kanister/issues/3036
  • • PR has been raised to fix the issue: https://github.com/kanisterio/kanister/pull/3630
  • • Rohit reviewed the PR and it looks good. Need to follow up with author to fix the CI and some tests.
• Discussions
• [Snyk scanning] https://app.snyk.io/org/kanister/reporting https://app.snyk.io/org/kanister/reports/licenses
  • Shikhar will need to fix his access to snyk.
  • License scanning found github.com/golang/freetype with GPL license
    • Dependency comes from gonum.org/v1/gonum which is used in the metrics package, we don't use the freetype functions in any way. We might replace gonum with some other lib. not an issue [Daniil] - create issue to address that
      • Daniil pending filing a ticket. This is a warning, we do not use freetype, so low priority.
      • Prasad can file the issue since Daniil is on PTO
• New Security Advisories
  • https://github.com/kanisterio/kanister/security/advisories