Community meeting Jan 12, 2021

[carlisia]

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
  • Reviewed Velero : Throttling request errors #3191 for the cause of throttling log messages
    • Increase --client-burst & --client-qps if you see this. We'll get this increased in v1.6
  • Opened an issue for some of Velero's upcoming rearchitecture, Add a new data movement layer to Velero's architecture #3229
  • 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
• Phuong: (phuong.n.hoang@dell.com) invite to design meeting for Velero plugin timeout 9am PST Friday Jan 15th. This is the Zoom meeting: https://Dell.zoom.us/j/91078486282?pwd=Yk9sU1UwT0NScXE2Q2oyRGV3K002QT09
  • This is for timing out plugins generically
  • Enhance the plugins to use the Context for timeouts
  • Please add to https://groups.google.com/g/projectvelero
• carlisia
  • hit a temporary snag with using GH Discussion: When convert to discussion will be able again? community/community#3105
  • is HackMD getting slow again? Time to archive?
• nrb
  • Current v1.6.0 status: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/projects/4
    • 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: 👍
      • 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)

[jonasrosland]

YouTube recording: https://youtu.be/RPGpqWGIzBs