VirtualMachineSnapshotPolicy

VirtualMachineSnapshotPolicy is helping to create snapshots for VirtualMachine object periodically. This object mostly considered for the scheduled snapshots. The schedule and the selectors that you specify matches with the VirtualMachine objects and according to the schedule it will create snapshots for those VirtualMachine objects. VirtualMachineSnapshotPolicy will be spawning VirtualMachineSnapshot objects for each VirtualMachine object that matches with the selectors. Also deleting the VirtualMachineSnapshotPolicy object also won't be deleting the snapshots from Proxmox but it will stop creating new VirtualMachineSnapshot objects for the VirtualMachine objects that matches with the selectors.

Creating VirtualMachineSnapshotPolicy

To create a new snapshot policy for virtual machines in Proxmox, you need to create a VirtualMachineSnapshotPolicy object.

# This manifest is used to create a snapshot policy for VirtualMachines.
cat <<EOF | kubectl apply -f -
apiVersion: proxmox.alperen.cloud/v1alpha1
kind: VirtualMachineSnapshotPolicy
metadata:
  labels:
    app.kubernetes.io/name: virtualmachinesnapshotpolicy
    app.kubernetes.io/instance: virtualmachinesnapshotpolicy-sample
    app.kubernetes.io/part-of: kubemox
    app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: kustomize
    app.kubernetes.io/created-by: kubemox
  name: virtualmachinesnapshotpolicy-sample
spec:
  snapshotSchedule: "*/30 * * * *" # Every 30 minutes
  namespaceSelector:
    namespaces: ["default", "my-namespace"]
  labelSelector:
    matchLabels:
      app.kubernetes.io/name: virtualmachine-sample-clone
EOF