Design: per-item backup outcomes and resource rollup (OADP-8697) - #2442
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Documents backup observability gaps, sparse outcome model, and downstream rollup for OADP-8697; tracks upstream proposal velero-io/velero#10503. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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In `@docs/design/backup_outcomes-design.md`:
- Line 179: Update the storage-bound criterion in the backup outcomes design to
bound size by the total non-success outcome count, including warning and skipped
rows, rather than failure count alone.
- Line 91: Update the backup outcome contract around the outcome shape and its
message definition to use a typed messages array with deterministic ordering and
deduplication. Ensure all references, including the later message behavior
section, consistently describe and consume this single normalized representation
rather than an optional message with ambiguous multiplicity.
- Around line 139-146: Update the backup outcomes design around the finalize
merge and immutable snapshot to define a completion marker, require finalization
only after asynchronous operation status is durably written, and specify retry
or reconciliation behavior when finalization occurs too early or persistence
fails. Ensure the persisted velero-backup.json view can incorporate late
itemoperations failures before outcomes become immutable.
- Line 133: Update the backup outcome rule so absence from items does not imply
succeeded. Require explicit complete coverage across all applicable sources,
including resource-list.json.gz, itemoperations.json.gz, results.gz, and
volumeinfo.json.gz where relevant; otherwise represent the outcome as unknown or
retain the unresolved state.
In `@docs/design/backup_resource_rollup-design.md`:
- Line 60: Update the label-based grouping behavior described by label:<key> to
include the resource namespace in each group identity, alongside the label key
and value, so identical labels in different namespaces remain separate;
alternatively reject label grouping when multiple namespaces are included.
- Around line 92-96: Clarify the authoritative CLI and correlation contract
across both design documents: in docs/design/backup_resource_rollup-design.md
lines 92-96, explicitly state whether the generic resource-status command is
authoritative; in docs/design/vm_backup_status-design.md lines 76-79, mark
vm-status as superseded or define it as a compatibility alias with identical
flags, output, and status semantics. Ensure the documentation presents only one
effective command contract.
- Line 78: The design documentation must not instruct structuring legacy
name-only failures by cross-referencing resource names. Update the legacy record
handling to require GVK or groupResource metadata; when only a name is
available, treat multiple matching kinds as ambiguous and keep the failure
ungrouped, including cases where DataVolume and PVC share the same
namespace/name.
- Line 83: Define owner lookup identity using the exact apiVersion and kind
mapped from groupResource, plus namespace, name, and UID; resolve controller
owner references using their apiVersion, kind, name, UID, and applicable
namespace instead of Kind/name alone. Keep owner:<Kind> exclusively as the
grouping stop condition, and add fixtures covering same-name resources across
API groups and namespaces.
- Around line 83-84: Update the ownership walk described for structured error
tuples to track visited {groupResource, namespace, name} identities before
following each controller owner. If an identity repeats, terminate the walk with
Unknown or the strategy’s cycle result; otherwise preserve the existing
stop-condition and no-owner behavior.
In `@docs/design/vm_backup_status-design.md`:
- Line 91: Use the backup artifact as the authoritative source for VM manifests
and owner references: in the disk-extraction flow described in
vm_backup_status-design.md at lines 91-91, read the backed-up VM manifest before
consulting the live VM, using live data only as an explicitly best-effort
fallback; apply the same ordering to owner-reference lookup in
backup_resource_rollup-design.md at lines 82-82.
- Line 96: The VM status rollup must also evaluate failures matched directly to
the VM, not only missing or failed disks. Update the rollup algorithm to store
and consider a VM-level result alongside disk results, marking the VM Failed and
preserving the first matched failure reason when either source fails; retain the
existing Succeeded, Skipped, and zero-disk behavior otherwise.
- Line 201: Update the Phase 2 status access design to enforce tenant isolation:
scope status reads and lists by source namespace, or partition and redact the
shared status so regular users cannot access other tenants’ VM names,
namespaces, or failure details; retain write access exclusively for the
controller service account.
- Around line 200-201: Update the Phase 1 RBAC and access design in
docs/design/vm_backup_status-design.md at lines 200-201 to prevent CLI users
from reading BSL credential Secrets; use a server-side component with operator
credentials or a short-lived, backup-scoped read capability for tarball
fallback. Apply the same boundary to
docs/design/backup_resource_rollup-design.md at line 114, with no direct user
access to provider credentials.
- Line 204: Bound the Phase 1 historical compatibility statement instead of
claiming support for any existing or historical backup. In the section
describing Phase 1 compatibility and validation, either specify the required
backup artifacts and supported Velero and kubevirt-velero-plugin versions, or
limit the claim to the validated prior PartiallyFailed backup and fresh 5-VM
reproduction.
- Line 160: Update the Phase 2 CRD design around the vms status field to bound
serialized status size before implementation. Measure the worst-case payload,
including nested disk details and free-text details, and define a concrete
sharding, pagination, or external-artifact approach that keeps status writes
within etcd’s default 1.5 MiB request limit.
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| An outcome is the result for one Kubernetes object that was part of this backup: | ||
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Define the message shape before publishing this contract.
Line 91 declares one optional message, but Line 103 permits multiple messages and leaves “deduplicated or listed” undecided. Consumers cannot safely parse or compare outcomes. Use a typed messages array with deterministic ordering and deduplication, or define one deterministic string encoding.
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In `@docs/design/backup_outcomes-design.md` at line 91, Update the backup outcome
contract around the outcome shape and its message definition to use a typed
messages array with deterministic ordering and deduplication. Ensure all
references, including the later message behavior section, consistently describe
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| **Rule:** if an object is in the backup’s resource list (and `volumeinfo` is OK for PVCs) and does not appear in `items` → treat as `succeeded`. |
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Do not infer succeeded from absence alone.
The document defines resource-list.json.gz as inventory only, itemoperations.json.gz as partial coverage, results.gz as having asynchronous gaps, and volumeinfo.json.gz as potentially stale. An item can therefore be absent from items because no source captured its failure. Add explicit coverage/completeness markers or an unknown outcome. Infer succeeded only when all applicable sources have complete coverage.
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In `@docs/design/backup_outcomes-design.md` at line 133, Update the backup outcome
rule so absence from items does not imply succeeded. Require explicit complete
coverage across all applicable sources, including resource-list.json.gz,
itemoperations.json.gz, results.gz, and volumeinfo.json.gz where relevant;
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| 1. `resource-list` — what was in scope | ||
| 2. `results` — sync errors (parse or prefer structured fields if written at failure time) | ||
| 3. `volumeinfo` — PVC results | ||
| 4. `itemoperations` — async failures (wins over stale `results`/`volumeinfo` when they disagree) | ||
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| Output = sparse non-success rows + summary. Do not duplicate `resource-list` with one success row per object. |
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Define the finalize barrier before making outcomes immutable.
Line 139 requires merging after asynchronous work, while Line 84 makes the snapshot immutable. The document also states that velero-backup.json may predate asynchronous finalization. If finalization runs before late operation status is durable, the persisted view permanently omits that failure. Specify the completion marker, ordering, and retry or reconciliation behavior.
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In `@docs/design/backup_outcomes-design.md` around lines 139 - 146, Update the
backup outcomes design around the finalize merge and immutable snapshot to
define a completion marker, require finalization only after asynchronous
operation status is durably written, and specify retry or reconciliation
behavior when finalization occurs too early or persistence fails. Ensure the
persisted velero-backup.json view can incorporate late itemoperations failures
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| - [ ] For a named backup, list every **failed** and **warned** item with explicit GVR, namespace, name, and message | ||
| - [ ] Async failures included in the same view as sync failures | ||
| - [ ] Size bounded by failure count, not total object count |
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Correct the storage-bound criterion.
The format stores every non-success row, including warning and skipped, but Line 179 limits size by failed items. With zero failures and many warnings or skipped items, the stated criterion is false. Change it to “non-success outcome count” or define separate bounds.
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In `@docs/design/backup_outcomes-design.md` at line 179, Update the storage-bound
criterion in the backup outcomes design to bound size by the total non-success
outcome count, including warning and skipped rows, rather than failure count
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| A **grouping strategy** decides what "target" means: | ||
| - `owner:<Kind>` — stop walking when a `Kind` match is reached (e.g. `owner:VirtualMachine`, `owner:StatefulSet`). | ||
| - `owner` (no kind) — walk all the way to the topmost object with no further owner. | ||
| - `label:<key>` — skip the graph walk, group flatly by a label value (for Helm-style apps that share `app.kubernetes.io/instance` without using `ownerReferences`). |
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Include namespace in label group identity.
label:<key> currently groups by label value only. The command accepts backups with multiple included namespaces, and label values are not namespace-unique. The same value can merge unrelated workloads. Use (namespace, label key, label value) as the group key, or reject multi-namespace label grouping.
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In `@docs/design/backup_resource_rollup-design.md` at line 60, Update the
label-based grouping behavior described by label:<key> to include the resource
namespace in each group identity, alongside the label key and value, so
identical labels in different namespaces remain separate; alternatively reject
label grouping when multiple namespaces are included.
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| - the PVC resource list (was it backed up at all?), | ||
| - `<backup>-volumeinfo.json.gz` (`result: succeeded/failed/skipped` for CSI/datamover-backed disks), | ||
| - `<backup>-results.gz` error strings, matched against the declared disk names and the VM name (not just `name:`, since we proved that field is ambiguous) to attribute an error and classify it. | ||
| 4. **Roll up to VM status.** A VM is `Succeeded` if all its declared disks succeeded, `Failed` if any disk is missing or failed (carrying the first matched failure reason), `Skipped` if excluded by selector/filter. VMs with zero declared disks are `Succeeded` trivially (VM metadata backed up, nothing else expected). |
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Include failures on the VM item itself.
The algorithm matches errors against the VM name, but Line [96] marks a VM Failed only when a disk is missing or failed. A VM custom action can fail while every disk succeeds. The output will then report Succeeded for a failed VM. Store and evaluate a VM-level result in addition to disk results.
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In `@docs/design/vm_backup_status-design.md` at line 96, The VM status rollup must
also evaluate failures matched directly to the VM, not only missing or failed
disks. Update the rollup algorithm to store and consider a VM-level result
alongside disk results, marking the VM Failed and preserving the first matched
failure reason when either source fails; retain the existing Succeeded, Skipped,
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| succeeded: 3 | ||
| failed: 2 | ||
| skipped: 0 | ||
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site:kubernetes.io/docs apiserver --max-request-bytes default 3 MiB object size limit
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There is no kube-apiserver command-line flag named --max-request-bytes [1][2]. The Kubernetes API server does not have a configurable global limit for incoming request body sizes that can be set via a command-line flag [1]. While some Kubernetes resources, such as Secrets, have built-in size limits (e.g., the total bytes of data in a Secret must be less than a specific limit) [3], there is no equivalent global --max-request-bytes flag to constrain all incoming requests to the API server [1]. It is possible that the "3 MiB" limit you are referencing relates to a specific implementation detail, such as the default etcd value size limit (which is often configured or defaulted to levels that influence maximum object size), or a misunderstanding of other configuration parameters like logging buffer sizes (which can accept values such as 3Mi) [2]. However, this is not a general request body size limit enforced by the API server itself.
Citations:
- 1: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/command-line-tools-reference/kube-apiserver/
- 2: https://v1-36.docs.kubernetes.io/docs/reference/command-line-tools-reference/kube-apiserver/
- 3: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/core/secret-v1/
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Kubernetes enforces a hard limit of 1.5 MiB (1,572,864 bytes) for individual objects stored in etcd. This limit is implemented to ensure the stability, performance, and reliability of the etcd cluster, which serves as the primary data store for the entire Kubernetes control plane. When an object exceeds this size, the Kubernetes API server will reject the request with an error, typically preventing the creation or update of the resource. Because etcd is a distributed, consensus-based key-value store, storing excessively large objects can lead to significant performance degradation, increased latency during consensus operations, and potential instability of the control plane. To manage large data requirements within Kubernetes, the following best practices are recommended: 1. Offload Large Data: Instead of storing large files, configuration blobs, or datasets directly within Kubernetes objects (such as ConfigMaps or Secrets), store the actual data in external object storage (e.g., S3, GCS) or a persistent volume, and store only the reference or metadata within the Kubernetes object. 2. Resource Separation: For clusters with high volumes of data, such as large numbers of Event objects, Kubernetes documentation suggests storing these in a separate, dedicated etcd instance to prevent them from impacting the primary etcd cluster that manages critical system state. 3. Compression and Encoding: Ensure that resources are efficiently serialized. While encryption at rest is supported, it can increase the size of the stored object; however, the 1.5 MiB limit applies to the resulting serialized and encrypted object as stored in etcd. Cluster administrators should monitor etcd metrics and, if approaching capacity or performance limits, consider architectural changes such as resource separation or reducing the density of data stored within individual resources.
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- 1: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/configure-upgrade-etcd/
- 2: https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/best-practices/cluster-large/
- 3: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/command-line-tools-reference/kube-apiserver/
- 4: https://v1-36.docs.kubernetes.io/docs/reference/using-api/api-concepts/
- 5: https://v1-36.docs.kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/configure-upgrade-etcd/
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In etcd, the --max-request-bytes flag defines the maximum size of a client request in bytes that the server will accept [1][2][3]. The default value for this setting is 1,572,864 bytes, which is equivalent to 1.5 MiB [2][3][4]. This limit is intended to handle the small key-value pairs typically used for metadata; while larger requests are permitted if the limit is adjusted, exceeding the default may increase latency for other operations [1][5][6]. Server-side configuration can be managed via the command-line flag or the embed.Config.MaxRequestBytes field [7][8]. Client-side limits also exist, where the default send limit is 2 MiB (calculated as the 1.5 MiB request limit plus additional gRPC overhead) [7][8].
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- 1: https://etcd.io/docs/v3.7/dev-guide/limit/
- 2: https://etcd.io/docs/v3.8/op-guide/configuration/
- 3: https://etcd.io/docs/v3.4/op-guide/configuration/
- 4: https://etcd.io/docs/v3.7/op-guide/configuration/
- 5: https://etcd.io/docs/v3.8/dev-guide/limit/
- 6: https://etcd.io/docs/v3.6/dev-guide/limit/
- 7: https://etcd.io/docs/v3.6/upgrades/upgrade_3_3/
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Bound the Phase 2 status size.
The Phase 2 CRD sketch stores an unbounded vms array with nested disk details and free-text details. A serialized status object can exceed etcd’s default 1.5 MiB request limit, causing the API server to reject status writes. Measure the worst-case payload and define sharding, pagination, or an external artifact before implementing Phase 2.
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In `@docs/design/vm_backup_status-design.md` at line 160, Update the Phase 2 CRD
design around the vms status field to bound serialized status size before
implementation. Measure the worst-case payload, including nested disk details
and free-text details, and define a concrete sharding, pagination, or
external-artifact approach that keeps status writes within etcd’s default 1.5
MiB request limit.
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| Phase 1 needs the same RBAC a user already needs for `velero backup describe`/`logs` (get/list Backups, DataUploads, PVCs, VirtualMachines in the target namespace), plus read access to the Backup Storage Location's object storage credentials when a backup's source namespace no longer exists and the tool must fall back to downloading the tarball. | ||
| Phase 2 reuses the operator's own existing BSL access; the new CRD's status is read/list-only for regular users, and only the controller's service account gets write access to it. |
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Do not grant CLI users access to BSL credential Secrets.
Phase 1 explicitly grants the CLI user read access to object-storage credentials. That access allows the user to copy and reuse the provider credential outside this command. Use a server-side component with the operator credential or a short-lived, backup-scoped read capability. Apply the same boundary to the generic rollup design.
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In `@docs/design/vm_backup_status-design.md` around lines 200 - 201, Update the
Phase 1 RBAC and access design in docs/design/vm_backup_status-design.md at
lines 200-201 to prevent CLI users from reading BSL credential Secrets; use a
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| ## Security Considerations | ||
| Both phases are read-only with respect to cluster state; neither writes to or mutates Backups, VMs, PVCs, or DataVolumes. | ||
| Phase 1 needs the same RBAC a user already needs for `velero backup describe`/`logs` (get/list Backups, DataUploads, PVCs, VirtualMachines in the target namespace), plus read access to the Backup Storage Location's object storage credentials when a backup's source namespace no longer exists and the tool must fall back to downloading the tarball. | ||
| Phase 2 reuses the operator's own existing BSL access; the new CRD's status is read/list-only for regular users, and only the controller's service account gets write access to it. |
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Define tenant isolation for Phase 2 status.
The shared openshift-adp status resource exposes VM names, namespaces, and failure details. Scope access by source namespace, or partition and redact the status before granting regular users read/list access.
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In `@docs/design/vm_backup_status-design.md` at line 201, Update the Phase 2
status access design to enforce tenant isolation: scope status reads and lists
by source namespace, or partition and redact the shared status so regular users
cannot access other tenants’ VM names, namespaces, or failure details; retain
write access exclusively for the controller service account.
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| Phase 2 reuses the operator's own existing BSL access; the new CRD's status is read/list-only for regular users, and only the controller's service account gets write access to it. | ||
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| Phase 1 works against any existing or historical backup on this cluster without any cluster-side changes, we validated this directly against a real `PartiallyFailed` backup from a prior session as well as the fresh 5-VM repro; no version gating is needed beyond what the kubevirt-velero-plugin already emits today. |
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Bound the historical compatibility claim.
The document lists test fixtures but does not define the required artifacts or supported Velero/kubevirt-velero-plugin versions. The cited evidence covers one prior PartiallyFailed backup and one fresh 5-VM reproduction; it cannot support “any existing or historical backup.” Define those requirements, or replace the claim with a bounded statement.
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In `@docs/design/vm_backup_status-design.md` at line 204, Bound the Phase 1
historical compatibility statement instead of claiming support for any existing
or historical backup. In the section describing Phase 1 compatibility and
validation, either specify the required backup artifacts and supported Velero
and kubevirt-velero-plugin versions, or limit the claim to the validated prior
PartiallyFailed backup and fresh 5-VM reproduction.
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Why the changes were made
Design documentation for backup observability work tracked under OADP-8697:
docs/design/backup_outcomes-design.md— per-item backup outcomes for a single Velero backup run (sparse failures + finalize merge model); upstream velero-io/velero#10503docs/design/backup_resource_rollup-design.md— generalized rollup via structured errors +ownerReferences(oadp-cli)docs/design/vm_backup_status-design.md— VM case study with cluster evidencedocs/design/velero_upstream_issues-draft.md— pointer to upstream issueNo implementation in this PR — design only for review.
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