Kubernetes volume populators are now generally available (GA)! The AnyVolumeDataSource feature gate is treated as always enabled for Kubernetes v1.33, which means that users can specify any appropriate custom resource as the data source of a PersistentVolumeClaim (PVC). An example of how to use dataSourceRef in PVC: apiVersion: v1 kind: PersistentVolumeClaim metadata: name: pvc1 spec: ... dataSourceRef: apiGroup: provider.example.com kind: Provider name: provider1 What is new There are four major enhancements from beta.