<ul><li>Kubernetes 1.32 has moved the support of volume group snapshots from alpha to beta.</li><li>This support relies on a set of extension APIs for group snapshots.</li><li>Volume group snapshots are used to create a crash-consistent snapshot of multiple volumes.</li><li>This new feature is only supported for CSI volume drivers</li><li>The feature aims to restore a set of snapshots to new volumes and recover your workload</li><li>Volume groups are defined by a label selector that groups multiple PersistentVolumeClaims for snapshotting.</li><li>Three API kinds are defined as CRDs that are used for managing snapshots.</li><li>The VolumeGroupSnapshot feature in CSI spec moved to GA in the v1.11.0 release.</li><li>The logic to dynamically create the VolumeGroupSnapshot and its corresponding individual VolumeSnapshot and VolumeSnapshotContent objects are moved from CSI snapshotter to the common snapshot-controller.</li><li>The beta implementation of volume group snapshots for Kubernetes has some limitations, including not supporting the reverting of an existing PVC to an earlier state represented by a snapshot.</li></ul>

Kubernetes 1.32: Moving Volume Group Snapshots to Beta

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