Additionally, these Kubernetes snapshot primitives act as basic building blocks that unlock the ability to develop advanced, enterprise-grade, storage administration features for Kubernetes: including application or cluster level backup solutions.
Note that snapshot support will require Kubernetes distributors to bundle the Snapshot controller, Snapshot CRDs, and validation webhook. In addition, a CSI driver supporting the snapshot functionality must also be deployed on the cluster.

### Beta
- The Kubernetes Volume Snapshot feature has been moved to beta. The VolumeSnapshotDataSource feature gate is on by default in this release. This feature enables you to take a snapshot of a volume (if supported by the CSI driver), and use the snapshot to provision a new volume, pre-populated with data from the snapshot.

### SIG Apps

* [prototype] Volume snapshots

  * You can now create a volume snapshot by calling the Kubernetes API.

  * Note that the prototype does not support quiescing before snapshot, so snapshots might be inconsistent.

  * In the prototype phase, this feature is external to the core Kubernetes. It's available at https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/external-storage/tree/master/snapshot.

### Cluster Federation

- kubeadm will now not fail preflight checks when running on >= 5.0 Linux kernel ([#74355](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74355), [@brb](https://github.com/brb))
- Scheduler cache snapshot algorithm has been optimized to improve scheduling throughput. ([#74041](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74041), [@bsalamat](https://github.com/bsalamat))

- Fix scheduler cache snapshot when a Node is deleted before its Pods ([#95154](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95154), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG Scheduling]

- Added the `WatchList` method to the `rest client` in `client-go`. When used,
  it establishes a stream to obtain a consistent snapshot of data from the server.
  This method is meant to be used by the generated client. ([#122657](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122657), [@p0lyn0mial](https://github.com/p0lyn0mial)) [SIG API Machinery]