RFE: Extend Volume Policy criteria to include label selector

[shubham-pampattiwar]

Describe the problem/challenge you have

Currently, Volume Policies in Velero support basic criteria for managing volumes during backup operations. However, the lack of a label selector feature limits flexibility in applying policies to specific sets of volumes. By extending the Volume Policy criteria to include label selectors, users can more effectively manage their storage resources based on custom labeling strategies, enhancing automation and operational efficiency.

Describe the solution you'd like

Extend the Volume Policy criteria definition to support label selectors.

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[sseago]

We've seen several customer requests for this -- they tend to be things like "I don't want to back up the content of my database volumes because we have hooks to do a db dump to a separate volume and we want to back up that volume but not the live DB volume" -- this isn't easily accomplished with the current selection criteria around capacity, volume type, etc. since there's a good chance the volume wanted to back up and the one not wanted have the same type, provisioner, size, etc. But if they can label the volumes "do-not-backup" or whatever and then create a volume policy with a label selector matching that label with the skip action, they could accomplish this easily.

[kaovilai]

Please update https://velero.io/docs/v1.15/resource-filtering/#supported-volumepolicy-actions also

[sseago]

@kaovilai actually it's https://velero.io/docs/v1.15/resource-filtering/#supported-conditions that needs update -- no change to actions supported here.

[shubham-pampattiwar]

Yeah I will update once design and implementation is done.