Find a way to display workspace ID in GCP Snapshots page

[jenting]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

We want the GCP Snapshots page contains the information of workspace ID. So, it's convenient to see the snapshot belongs to which workspace ID.

Currently, the snapshot contains the PVC name only.

And the PVC contains the information as.

• PV name
• PVC name (same as workspace name)
  

Although we could get the PVC name from snapshot first, and then get the workspace ID from description.
It'd be good if we could found the workspace ID directly from the snapshot.

Describe the behaviour you'd like

Display the workspace ID in snapshot either by description or label.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Manually check snapshot to get the PVC name, and then check the disks to find the workspace ID from the description.

Additional context

#7901

[jenting]

Reference PR kubernetes-sigs/gcp-compute-persistent-disk-csi-driver#935

[jenting]

We should be able to achieve by adding the flag --extra-create-metadata to the csi-snapshotter and updates the gcp-compute-persistent-disk-csi-driver from v1.4.0 to v1.7.0 that includes the PR and Pavel's PR. After that, the snapshot contains the VolumeSnapshot name/namespace and VolumeSnapshotContent name in snapshot description field.

However, the release v1.7.0 doesn't have the corresponding container image be released. We have to wait the upstream to release the v1.7.0 container image.

[sagor999]

Keep in mind that PVCs are ephemeral. They exist only as long as workspace is running. When workspace stops, PVC gets deleted and only Volume Snapshot will remain.

[kylos101]

@jenting is this still blocked, or did you mean for status to be something else?

[jenting]

I'm waiting for the upstream to release the next container image, so I put into blocked status.

[sagor999]

@jenting can you also explore if it is possible to add labels to snapshots? Not just description.
Why labels? Labels allow us to filter the cost.
We might need to introduce upstream PR for this.

[jenting]

If I remember correctly, there is no way currently.

But we could improve code to upstream 😄

[jenting]

@jenting can you also explore if it is possible to add labels to snapshots? Not just description. Why labels? Labels allow us to filter the cost. We might need to introduce upstream PR for this.

Which label are we preferred to add to filter the cost? I could think is the label to diffentiate the standard/XL cluster.

[sagor999]

Similar to what we do for VMs:
https://github.com/gitpod-io/ops/blob/3da5107b309bcc6ffe644ce7f5329431f0daf46a/deploy/workspace/cluster-up.sh#L150