Kubernetes Data Protection WG Intro and Deep Dive

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Kubernetes lacks several concrete primitives needed for backup and restore so the working group defines and prototypes them: a volume backup API (separate from volume snapshots), CBT/change-tracking for incremental backups, an object-store backup repo via COSA/CoS, a volume populator to rehydrate PVCs from backups, and a container notifier to quiesce apps before snapshots. VolumeSnapshot is GA (1.21), CoS and volume populator target 1.22, and multiple proposals and controllers are under design and review rather than production-ready.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 6:14Application Backup Workflow
3. 6:57Application Native Data Dump
4. 8:09Restore Workflow
5. 10:34Missing Features
6. 13:19Volume Backup
7. 18:09Volume Populator
8. 20:29Container Notifier Cap
9. 23:20Consistent Group Snapshot

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