Standard object’s metadata. More info: https://git.k8s.io/community/contributors/devel/sig-architecture/api-conventions.md#metadata

spec defines the desired characteristics of a snapshot requested by a user. More info: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/volume-snapshots#volumesnapshots Required.

status represents the current information of a snapshot. Consumers must verify binding between VolumeSnapshot and VolumeSnapshotContent objects is successful (by validating that both VolumeSnapshot and VolumeSnapshotContent point at each other) before using this object.

Standard object’s metadata. More info: https://git.k8s.io/community/contributors/devel/sig-architecture/api-conventions.md#metadata

driver is the name of the storage driver that handles this VolumeSnapshotClass. Required.

parameters is a key-value map with storage driver specific parameters for creating snapshots. These values are opaque to Kubernetes.

deletionPolicy determines whether a VolumeSnapshotContent created through the VolumeSnapshotClass should be deleted when its bound VolumeSnapshot is deleted. Supported values are “Retain” and “Delete”. “Retain” means that the VolumeSnapshotContent and its physical snapshot on underlying storage system are kept. “Delete” means that the VolumeSnapshotContent and its physical snapshot on underlying storage system are deleted. Required.

Standard object’s metadata. More info: https://git.k8s.io/community/contributors/devel/sig-architecture/api-conventions.md#metadata

spec defines properties of a VolumeSnapshotContent created by the underlying storage system. Required.

status represents the current information of a snapshot.

"Delete"

volumeSnapshotContentDelete means the snapshot will be deleted from the underlying storage system on release from its volume snapshot.

"Retain"

volumeSnapshotContentRetain means the snapshot will be left in its current state on release from its volume snapshot.

volumeHandle specifies the CSI “volume_id” of the volume from which a snapshot should be dynamically taken from. This field is immutable.

snapshotHandle specifies the CSI “snapshot_id” of a pre-existing snapshot on the underlying storage system for which a Kubernetes object representation was (or should be) created. This field is immutable.

volumeSnapshotRef specifies the VolumeSnapshot object to which this VolumeSnapshotContent object is bound. VolumeSnapshot.Spec.VolumeSnapshotContentName field must reference to this VolumeSnapshotContent’s name for the bidirectional binding to be valid. For a pre-existing VolumeSnapshotContent object, name and namespace of the VolumeSnapshot object MUST be provided for binding to happen. This field is immutable after creation. Required.

deletionPolicy determines whether this VolumeSnapshotContent and its physical snapshot on the underlying storage system should be deleted when its bound VolumeSnapshot is deleted. Supported values are “Retain” and “Delete”. “Retain” means that the VolumeSnapshotContent and its physical snapshot on underlying storage system are kept. “Delete” means that the VolumeSnapshotContent and its physical snapshot on underlying storage system are deleted. For dynamically provisioned snapshots, this field will automatically be filled in by the CSI snapshotter sidecar with the “DeletionPolicy” field defined in the corresponding VolumeSnapshotClass. For pre-existing snapshots, users MUST specify this field when creating the VolumeSnapshotContent object. Required.

driver is the name of the CSI driver used to create the physical snapshot on the underlying storage system. This MUST be the same as the name returned by the CSI GetPluginName() call for that driver. Required.

name of the VolumeSnapshotClass from which this snapshot was (or will be) created. Note that after provisioning, the VolumeSnapshotClass may be deleted or recreated with different set of values, and as such, should not be referenced post-snapshot creation.

source specifies whether the snapshot is (or should be) dynamically provisioned or already exists, and just requires a Kubernetes object representation. This field is immutable after creation. Required.

SourceVolumeMode is the mode of the volume whose snapshot is taken. Can be either “Filesystem” or “Block”. If not specified, it indicates the source volume’s mode is unknown. This field is immutable. This field is an alpha field.

snapshotHandle is the CSI “snapshot_id” of a snapshot on the underlying storage system. If not specified, it indicates that dynamic snapshot creation has either failed or it is still in progress.

creationTime is the timestamp when the point-in-time snapshot is taken by the underlying storage system. In dynamic snapshot creation case, this field will be filled in by the CSI snapshotter sidecar with the “creation_time” value returned from CSI “CreateSnapshot” gRPC call. For a pre-existing snapshot, this field will be filled with the “creation_time” value returned from the CSI “ListSnapshots” gRPC call if the driver supports it. If not specified, it indicates the creation time is unknown. The format of this field is a Unix nanoseconds time encoded as an int64. On Unix, the command date +%s%N returns the current time in nanoseconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC.

restoreSize represents the complete size of the snapshot in bytes. In dynamic snapshot creation case, this field will be filled in by the CSI snapshotter sidecar with the “size_bytes” value returned from CSI “CreateSnapshot” gRPC call. For a pre-existing snapshot, this field will be filled with the “size_bytes” value returned from the CSI “ListSnapshots” gRPC call if the driver supports it. When restoring a volume from this snapshot, the size of the volume MUST NOT be smaller than the restoreSize if it is specified, otherwise the restoration will fail. If not specified, it indicates that the size is unknown.

readyToUse indicates if a snapshot is ready to be used to restore a volume. In dynamic snapshot creation case, this field will be filled in by the CSI snapshotter sidecar with the “ready_to_use” value returned from CSI “CreateSnapshot” gRPC call. For a pre-existing snapshot, this field will be filled with the “ready_to_use” value returned from the CSI “ListSnapshots” gRPC call if the driver supports it, otherwise, this field will be set to “True”. If not specified, it means the readiness of a snapshot is unknown.

error is the last observed error during snapshot creation, if any. Upon success after retry, this error field will be cleared.

time is the timestamp when the error was encountered.

message is a string detailing the encountered error during snapshot creation if specified. NOTE: message may be logged, and it should not contain sensitive information.

persistentVolumeClaimName specifies the name of the PersistentVolumeClaim object representing the volume from which a snapshot should be created. This PVC is assumed to be in the same namespace as the VolumeSnapshot object. This field should be set if the snapshot does not exists, and needs to be created. This field is immutable.

volumeSnapshotContentName specifies the name of a pre-existing VolumeSnapshotContent object representing an existing volume snapshot. This field should be set if the snapshot already exists and only needs a representation in Kubernetes. This field is immutable.

source specifies where a snapshot will be created from. This field is immutable after creation. Required.

VolumeSnapshotClassName is the name of the VolumeSnapshotClass requested by the VolumeSnapshot. VolumeSnapshotClassName may be left nil to indicate that the default SnapshotClass should be used. A given cluster may have multiple default Volume SnapshotClasses: one default per CSI Driver. If a VolumeSnapshot does not specify a SnapshotClass, VolumeSnapshotSource will be checked to figure out what the associated CSI Driver is, and the default VolumeSnapshotClass associated with that CSI Driver will be used. If more than one VolumeSnapshotClass exist for a given CSI Driver and more than one have been marked as default, CreateSnapshot will fail and generate an event. Empty string is not allowed for this field.

boundVolumeSnapshotContentName is the name of the VolumeSnapshotContent object to which this VolumeSnapshot object intends to bind to. If not specified, it indicates that the VolumeSnapshot object has not been successfully bound to a VolumeSnapshotContent object yet. NOTE: To avoid possible security issues, consumers must verify binding between VolumeSnapshot and VolumeSnapshotContent objects is successful (by validating that both VolumeSnapshot and VolumeSnapshotContent point at each other) before using this object.

creationTime is the timestamp when the point-in-time snapshot is taken by the underlying storage system. In dynamic snapshot creation case, this field will be filled in by the snapshot controller with the “creation_time” value returned from CSI “CreateSnapshot” gRPC call. For a pre-existing snapshot, this field will be filled with the “creation_time” value returned from the CSI “ListSnapshots” gRPC call if the driver supports it. If not specified, it may indicate that the creation time of the snapshot is unknown.

readyToUse indicates if the snapshot is ready to be used to restore a volume. In dynamic snapshot creation case, this field will be filled in by the snapshot controller with the “ready_to_use” value returned from CSI “CreateSnapshot” gRPC call. For a pre-existing snapshot, this field will be filled with the “ready_to_use” value returned from the CSI “ListSnapshots” gRPC call if the driver supports it, otherwise, this field will be set to “True”. If not specified, it means the readiness of a snapshot is unknown.

restoreSize represents the minimum size of volume required to create a volume from this snapshot. In dynamic snapshot creation case, this field will be filled in by the snapshot controller with the “size_bytes” value returned from CSI “CreateSnapshot” gRPC call. For a pre-existing snapshot, this field will be filled with the “size_bytes” value returned from the CSI “ListSnapshots” gRPC call if the driver supports it. When restoring a volume from this snapshot, the size of the volume MUST NOT be smaller than the restoreSize if it is specified, otherwise the restoration will fail. If not specified, it indicates that the size is unknown.

error is the last observed error during snapshot creation, if any. This field could be helpful to upper level controllers(i.e., application controller) to decide whether they should continue on waiting for the snapshot to be created based on the type of error reported. The snapshot controller will keep retrying when an error occurs during the snapshot creation. Upon success, this error field will be cleared.