diff --git a/deploy/kubernetes-1.17/README.md b/deploy/kubernetes-1.17/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d7178167d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deploy/kubernetes-1.17/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+The deployment for Kubernetes 1.17 uses VolumeSnapshot Beta CRDs and thus is imcompatible
+with Kubernetes < 1.17 when the VolumeSnapshot CRDs were Alpha.
diff --git a/deploy/kubernetes-1.17/csi-hostpath-snapshotclass.yaml b/deploy/kubernetes-1.17/csi-hostpath-snapshotclass.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..892dfd0c8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deploy/kubernetes-1.17/csi-hostpath-snapshotclass.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+apiVersion: snapshot.storage.k8s.io/v1beta1
+kind: VolumeSnapshotClass
+metadata:
+  name: csi-hostpath-snapclass
+driver: hostpath.csi.k8s.io #csi-hostpath
+deletionPolicy: Delete
diff --git a/deploy/kubernetes-1.17/deploy-hostpath.sh b/deploy/kubernetes-1.17/deploy-hostpath.sh
new file mode 120000
index 000000000..589c43f62
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deploy/kubernetes-1.17/deploy-hostpath.sh
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../util/deploy-hostpath.sh
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/deploy/kubernetes-1.17/hostpath/csi-hostpath-attacher.yaml b/deploy/kubernetes-1.17/hostpath/csi-hostpath-attacher.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..823763a91
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deploy/kubernetes-1.17/hostpath/csi-hostpath-attacher.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+kind: Service
+apiVersion: v1
+metadata:
+  name: csi-hostpath-attacher
+  labels:
+    app: csi-hostpath-attacher
+spec:
+  selector:
+    app: csi-hostpath-attacher
+  ports:
+    - name: dummy
+      port: 12345
+
+---
+kind: StatefulSet
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+metadata:
+  name: csi-hostpath-attacher
+spec:
+  serviceName: "csi-hostpath-attacher"
+  replicas: 1
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app: csi-hostpath-attacher
+  template:
+    metadata:
+      labels:
+        app: csi-hostpath-attacher
+    spec:
+      affinity:
+        podAffinity:
+          requiredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution:
+          - labelSelector:
+              matchExpressions:
+              - key: app
+                operator: In
+                values:
+                - csi-hostpathplugin
+            topologyKey: kubernetes.io/hostname
+      serviceAccountName: csi-attacher
+      containers:
+        - name: csi-attacher
+          image: quay.io/k8scsi/csi-attacher:v2.0.0
+          args:
+            - --v=5
+            - --csi-address=/csi/csi.sock
+          volumeMounts:
+          - mountPath: /csi
+            name: socket-dir
+
+      volumes:
+        - hostPath:
+            path: /var/lib/kubelet/plugins/csi-hostpath
+            type: DirectoryOrCreate
+          name: socket-dir
diff --git a/deploy/kubernetes-1.17/hostpath/csi-hostpath-driverinfo.yaml b/deploy/kubernetes-1.17/hostpath/csi-hostpath-driverinfo.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..47d6486be
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deploy/kubernetes-1.17/hostpath/csi-hostpath-driverinfo.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+apiVersion: storage.k8s.io/v1beta1
+kind: CSIDriver
+metadata:
+  name: hostpath.csi.k8s.io
+spec:
+  # Supports persistent and ephemeral inline volumes.
+  volumeLifecycleModes:
+  - Persistent
+  - Ephemeral
+  # To determine at runtime which mode a volume uses, pod info and its
+  # "csi.storage.k8s.io/ephemeral" entry are needed.
+  podInfoOnMount: true
diff --git a/deploy/kubernetes-1.17/hostpath/csi-hostpath-plugin.yaml b/deploy/kubernetes-1.17/hostpath/csi-hostpath-plugin.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2d54b74e8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deploy/kubernetes-1.17/hostpath/csi-hostpath-plugin.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,143 @@
+# Service defined here, plus serviceName below in StatefulSet,
+# are needed only because of condition explained in
+# https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/69608
+
+kind: Service
+apiVersion: v1
+metadata:
+  name: csi-hostpathplugin
+  labels:
+    app: csi-hostpathplugin
+spec:
+  selector:
+    app: csi-hostpathplugin
+  ports:
+    - name: dummy
+      port: 12345
+---
+kind: StatefulSet
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+metadata:
+  name: csi-hostpathplugin
+spec:
+  serviceName: "csi-hostpathplugin"
+  # One replica only:
+  # Host path driver only works when everything runs
+  # on a single node. We achieve that by starting it once and then
+  # co-locate all other pods via inter-pod affinity
+  replicas: 1
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app: csi-hostpathplugin
+  template:
+    metadata:
+      labels:
+        app: csi-hostpathplugin
+    spec:
+      hostNetwork: true
+      containers:
+        - name: node-driver-registrar
+          image: quay.io/k8scsi/csi-node-driver-registrar:v1.2.0
+          lifecycle:
+            preStop:
+              exec:
+                command: ["/bin/sh", "-c", "rm -rf /registration/csi-hostpath /registration/csi-hostpath-reg.sock"]
+          args:
+            - --v=5
+            - --csi-address=/csi/csi.sock
+            - --kubelet-registration-path=/var/lib/kubelet/plugins/csi-hostpath/csi.sock
+          securityContext:
+            privileged: true
+          env:
+            - name: KUBE_NODE_NAME
+              valueFrom:
+                fieldRef:
+                  apiVersion: v1
+                  fieldPath: spec.nodeName
+          volumeMounts:
+          - mountPath: /csi
+            name: socket-dir
+          - mountPath: /registration
+            name: registration-dir
+          - mountPath: /csi-data-dir
+            name: csi-data-dir
+
+        - name: hostpath
+          image: quay.io/k8scsi/hostpathplugin:v1.2.0
+          args:
+            - "--drivername=hostpath.csi.k8s.io"
+            - "--v=5"
+            - "--endpoint=$(CSI_ENDPOINT)"
+            - "--nodeid=$(KUBE_NODE_NAME)"
+          env:
+            - name: CSI_ENDPOINT
+              value: unix:///csi/csi.sock
+            - name: KUBE_NODE_NAME
+              valueFrom:
+                fieldRef:
+                  apiVersion: v1
+                  fieldPath: spec.nodeName
+          securityContext:
+            privileged: true
+          ports:
+          - containerPort: 9898
+            name: healthz
+            protocol: TCP
+          livenessProbe:
+            failureThreshold: 5
+            httpGet:
+              path: /healthz
+              port: healthz
+            initialDelaySeconds: 10
+            timeoutSeconds: 3
+            periodSeconds: 2
+          volumeMounts:
+            - mountPath: /csi
+              name: socket-dir
+            - mountPath: /var/lib/kubelet/pods
+              mountPropagation: Bidirectional
+              name: mountpoint-dir
+            - mountPath: /var/lib/kubelet/plugins
+              mountPropagation: Bidirectional
+              name: plugins-dir
+            - mountPath: /csi-data-dir
+              name: csi-data-dir
+            - mountPath: /dev
+              name: dev-dir
+        - name: liveness-probe
+          volumeMounts:
+          - mountPath: /csi
+            name: socket-dir
+          image: quay.io/k8scsi/livenessprobe:v1.1.0
+          args:
+          - --csi-address=/csi/csi.sock
+          - --connection-timeout=3s
+          - --health-port=9898
+
+      volumes:
+        - hostPath:
+            path: /var/lib/kubelet/plugins/csi-hostpath
+            type: DirectoryOrCreate
+          name: socket-dir
+        - hostPath:
+            path: /var/lib/kubelet/pods
+            type: DirectoryOrCreate
+          name: mountpoint-dir
+        - hostPath:
+            path: /var/lib/kubelet/plugins_registry
+            type: Directory
+          name: registration-dir
+        - hostPath:
+            path: /var/lib/kubelet/plugins
+            type: Directory
+          name: plugins-dir
+        - hostPath:
+            # 'path' is where PV data is persisted on host.
+            # using /tmp is also possible while the PVs will not available after plugin container recreation or host reboot
+            path: /var/lib/csi-hostpath-data/
+            type: DirectoryOrCreate
+          name: csi-data-dir
+        - hostPath:
+            path: /dev
+            type: Directory
+          name: dev-dir
diff --git a/deploy/kubernetes-1.17/hostpath/csi-hostpath-provisioner.yaml b/deploy/kubernetes-1.17/hostpath/csi-hostpath-provisioner.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..85904dfb1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deploy/kubernetes-1.17/hostpath/csi-hostpath-provisioner.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+kind: Service
+apiVersion: v1
+metadata:
+  name: csi-hostpath-provisioner 
+  labels:
+    app: csi-hostpath-provisioner 
+spec:
+  selector:
+    app: csi-hostpath-provisioner 
+  ports:
+    - name: dummy
+      port: 12345
+
+---
+kind: StatefulSet
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+metadata:
+  name: csi-hostpath-provisioner
+spec:
+  serviceName: "csi-hostpath-provisioner"
+  replicas: 1
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app: csi-hostpath-provisioner
+  template:
+    metadata:
+      labels:
+        app: csi-hostpath-provisioner
+    spec:
+      affinity:
+        podAffinity:
+          requiredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution:
+          - labelSelector:
+              matchExpressions:
+              - key: app
+                operator: In
+                values:
+                - csi-hostpathplugin
+            topologyKey: kubernetes.io/hostname
+      serviceAccountName: csi-provisioner
+      containers:
+        - name: csi-provisioner
+          image: quay.io/k8scsi/csi-provisioner:v1.5.0-rc1
+          args:
+            - -v=5
+            - --csi-address=/csi/csi.sock
+            - --feature-gates=Topology=true
+          volumeMounts:
+            - mountPath: /csi
+              name: socket-dir
+      volumes:
+        - hostPath:
+            path: /var/lib/kubelet/plugins/csi-hostpath
+            type: DirectoryOrCreate
+          name: socket-dir
diff --git a/deploy/kubernetes-1.17/hostpath/csi-hostpath-resizer.yaml b/deploy/kubernetes-1.17/hostpath/csi-hostpath-resizer.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..77af2afb0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deploy/kubernetes-1.17/hostpath/csi-hostpath-resizer.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+kind: Service
+apiVersion: v1
+metadata:
+  name: csi-hostpath-resizer
+  labels:
+    app: csi-hostpath-resizer
+spec:
+  selector:
+    app: csi-hostpath-resizer
+  ports:
+    - name: dummy
+      port: 12345
+
+---
+kind: StatefulSet
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+metadata:
+  name: csi-hostpath-resizer
+spec:
+  serviceName: "csi-hostpath-resizer"
+  replicas: 1
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app: csi-hostpath-resizer
+  template:
+    metadata:
+      labels:
+        app: csi-hostpath-resizer
+    spec:
+      affinity:
+        podAffinity:
+          requiredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution:
+          - labelSelector:
+              matchExpressions:
+              - key: app
+                operator: In
+                values:
+                - csi-hostpathplugin
+            topologyKey: kubernetes.io/hostname
+      serviceAccountName: csi-resizer
+      containers:
+        - name: csi-resizer
+          image: quay.io/k8scsi/csi-resizer:v0.3.0
+          args:
+            - -v=5
+            - -csi-address=/csi/csi.sock
+          volumeMounts:
+            - mountPath: /csi
+              name: socket-dir
+      volumes:
+        - hostPath:
+            path: /var/lib/kubelet/plugins/csi-hostpath
+            type: DirectoryOrCreate
+          name: socket-dir
diff --git a/deploy/kubernetes-1.17/hostpath/csi-hostpath-snapshotter.yaml b/deploy/kubernetes-1.17/hostpath/csi-hostpath-snapshotter.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..131dc9cb9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deploy/kubernetes-1.17/hostpath/csi-hostpath-snapshotter.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+kind: Service
+apiVersion: v1
+metadata:
+  name: csi-hostpath-snapshotter
+  labels:
+    app: csi-hostpath-snapshotter
+spec:
+  selector:
+    app: csi-hostpath-snapshotter
+  ports:
+    - name: dummy
+      port: 12345
+
+---
+kind: StatefulSet
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+metadata:
+  name: csi-hostpath-snapshotter
+spec:
+  serviceName: "csi-hostpath-snapshotter"
+  replicas: 1
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app: csi-hostpath-snapshotter
+  template:
+    metadata:
+      labels:
+        app: csi-hostpath-snapshotter
+    spec:
+      affinity:
+        podAffinity:
+          requiredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution:
+          - labelSelector:
+              matchExpressions:
+              - key: app
+                operator: In
+                values:
+                - csi-hostpathplugin
+            topologyKey: kubernetes.io/hostname
+      serviceAccount: csi-snapshotter
+      containers:
+        - name: csi-snapshotter
+          # TODO: change to official image when released
+          image: quay.io/k8scsi/csi-snapshotter:v2.0.0-rc2
+          imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
+          args:
+            - -v=5
+            - --csi-address=/csi/csi.sock
+          volumeMounts:
+            - mountPath: /csi
+              name: socket-dir
+      volumes:
+        - hostPath:
+            path: /var/lib/kubelet/plugins/csi-hostpath
+            type: DirectoryOrCreate
+          name: socket-dir
diff --git a/deploy/kubernetes-1.17/hostpath/csi-hostpath-testing.yaml b/deploy/kubernetes-1.17/hostpath/csi-hostpath-testing.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3e6b837d1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deploy/kubernetes-1.17/hostpath/csi-hostpath-testing.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+# WARNING: this is only for testing purposes. Do not install in a production
+# cluster.
+#
+# This exposes the hostpath's Unix domain csi.sock as a TCP port to the
+# outside world. The mapping from Unix domain socket to TCP is done
+# by socat.
+#
+# This is useful for testing with csi-sanity or csc.
+
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Service
+metadata:
+  name: hostpath-service
+spec:
+  type: NodePort
+  selector:
+    app: csi-hostpath-socat
+  ports:
+  - port: 10000 # fixed port inside the pod, dynamically allocated port outside
+---
+kind: StatefulSet
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+metadata:
+  name: csi-hostpath-socat
+spec:
+  serviceName: "csi-hostpath-socat"
+  replicas: 1
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app: csi-hostpath-socat
+  template:
+    metadata:
+      labels:
+        app: csi-hostpath-socat
+    spec:
+      affinity:
+        podAffinity:
+          requiredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution:
+          - labelSelector:
+              matchExpressions:
+              - key: app
+                operator: In
+                values:
+                - csi-hostpathplugin
+            topologyKey: kubernetes.io/hostname
+      containers:
+        - name: socat
+          image: alpine/socat:1.0.3
+          args:
+            - tcp-listen:10000,fork,reuseaddr
+            - unix-connect:/csi/csi.sock
+          volumeMounts:
+          - mountPath: /csi
+            name: socket-dir
+      volumes:
+        - hostPath:
+            path: /var/lib/kubelet/plugins/csi-hostpath
+            type: DirectoryOrCreate
+          name: socket-dir
diff --git a/deploy/kubernetes-1.17/snapshotter/csi-hostpath-snapshotclass.yaml b/deploy/kubernetes-1.17/snapshotter/csi-hostpath-snapshotclass.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..892dfd0c8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deploy/kubernetes-1.17/snapshotter/csi-hostpath-snapshotclass.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+apiVersion: snapshot.storage.k8s.io/v1beta1
+kind: VolumeSnapshotClass
+metadata:
+  name: csi-hostpath-snapclass
+driver: hostpath.csi.k8s.io #csi-hostpath
+deletionPolicy: Delete
diff --git a/deploy/kubernetes-latest b/deploy/kubernetes-latest
index 5ca56f454..588027544 120000
--- a/deploy/kubernetes-latest
+++ b/deploy/kubernetes-latest
@@ -1 +1 @@
-kubernetes-1.16
\ No newline at end of file
+kubernetes-1.17
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/deploy/util/deploy-hostpath.sh b/deploy/util/deploy-hostpath.sh
index 81e92bd9c..69d790de0 100755
--- a/deploy/util/deploy-hostpath.sh
+++ b/deploy/util/deploy-hostpath.sh
@@ -82,13 +82,46 @@ function rbac_version () {
     echo "$version"
 }
 
+# version_gt returns true if arg1 is greater than arg2.
+# 
+# This function expects versions to be one of the following formats:
+#   X.Y.Z, release-X.Y.Z, vX.Y.Z
+#
+#   where X,Y, and Z are any number.
+#
+# Partial versions (1.2, release-1.2) work as well.
+# The follow substrings are stripped before version comparison:
+#   - "v"
+#   - "release-"
+#
+# Usage:
+# version_gt release-1.3 v1.2.0  (returns true)
+# version_gt v1.1.1 v1.2.0  (returns false)
+# version_gt 1.1.1 v1.2.0  (returns false)
+# version_gt 1.3.1 v1.2.0  (returns true)
+# version_gt 1.1.1 release-1.2.0  (returns false)
+# version_gt 1.2.0 1.2.2  (returns false)
+function version_gt() { 
+    versions=$(for ver in "$@"; do ver=${ver#release-}; echo ${ver#v}; done)
+    greaterVersion=${1#"release-"};  
+    greaterVersion=${greaterVersion#"v"}; 
+    test "$(printf '%s' "$versions" | sort -V | head -n 1)" != "$greaterVersion"
+}
+
 # In addition, the RBAC rules can be overridden separately.
+# For snapshotter 2.0+, the directory has changed.
+SNAPSHOTTER_RBAC_RELATIVE_PATH="rbac.yaml"
+if version_gt $(rbac_version "${BASE_DIR}/hostpath/csi-hostpath-snapshotter.yaml" csi-snapshotter "${UPDATE_RBAC_RULES}") "v1.255.255"; then
+	SNAPSHOTTER_RBAC_RELATIVE_PATH="csi-snapshotter/rbac-csi-snapshotter.yaml"
+fi
+echo "SNAPSHOTTER_RBAC_RELATIVE_PATH $SNAPSHOTTER_RBAC_RELATIVE_PATH"
+
 CSI_PROVISIONER_RBAC_YAML="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes-csi/external-provisioner/$(rbac_version "${BASE_DIR}/hostpath/csi-hostpath-provisioner.yaml" csi-provisioner false)/deploy/kubernetes/rbac.yaml"
 : ${CSI_PROVISIONER_RBAC:=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes-csi/external-provisioner/$(rbac_version "${BASE_DIR}/hostpath/csi-hostpath-provisioner.yaml" csi-provisioner "${UPDATE_RBAC_RULES}")/deploy/kubernetes/rbac.yaml}
 CSI_ATTACHER_RBAC_YAML="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes-csi/external-attacher/$(rbac_version "${BASE_DIR}/hostpath/csi-hostpath-attacher.yaml" csi-attacher false)/deploy/kubernetes/rbac.yaml"
 : ${CSI_ATTACHER_RBAC:=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes-csi/external-attacher/$(rbac_version "${BASE_DIR}/hostpath/csi-hostpath-attacher.yaml" csi-attacher "${UPDATE_RBAC_RULES}")/deploy/kubernetes/rbac.yaml}
-CSI_SNAPSHOTTER_RBAC_YAML="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes-csi/external-snapshotter/$(rbac_version "${BASE_DIR}/hostpath/csi-hostpath-snapshotter.yaml" csi-snapshotter false)/deploy/kubernetes/rbac.yaml"
-: ${CSI_SNAPSHOTTER_RBAC:=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes-csi/external-snapshotter/$(rbac_version "${BASE_DIR}/hostpath/csi-hostpath-snapshotter.yaml" csi-snapshotter "${UPDATE_RBAC_RULES}")/deploy/kubernetes/rbac.yaml}
+CSI_SNAPSHOTTER_RBAC_YAML="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes-csi/external-snapshotter/$(rbac_version "${BASE_DIR}/hostpath/csi-hostpath-snapshotter.yaml" csi-snapshotter false)/deploy/kubernetes/${SNAPSHOTTER_RBAC_RELATIVE_PATH}"
+: ${CSI_SNAPSHOTTER_RBAC:=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes-csi/external-snapshotter/$(rbac_version "${BASE_DIR}/hostpath/csi-hostpath-snapshotter.yaml" csi-snapshotter "${UPDATE_RBAC_RULES}")/deploy/kubernetes/${SNAPSHOTTER_RBAC_RELATIVE_PATH}
 CSI_RESIZER_RBAC_YAML="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes-csi/external-resizer/$(rbac_version "${BASE_DIR}/hostpath/csi-hostpath-resizer.yaml" csi-resizer false)/deploy/kubernetes/rbac.yaml"
 : ${CSI_RESIZER_RBAC:=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes-csi/external-resizer/$(rbac_version "${BASE_DIR}/hostpath/csi-hostpath-resizer.yaml" csi-resizer "${UPDATE_RBAC_RULES}")/deploy/kubernetes/rbac.yaml}
 
@@ -146,7 +179,7 @@ for i in $(ls ${BASE_DIR}/hostpath/*.yaml | sort); do
                    [ -f ${BASE_DIR}/canary-blacklist.txt ] &&
                    grep -q "^$name\$" ${BASE_DIR}/canary-blacklist.txt; then
                     # Ignore IMAGE_TAG=canary for this particular image because its
-                    # canary image is blacklisted in the deployment's blacklist.
+                    # canary image is blacklisted in the deployment blacklist.
                     suffix=$(eval echo :\${${varname}_TAG:-${tag}})
                 else
                     suffix=$(eval echo :\${${varname}_TAG:-${IMAGE_TAG:-${tag}}})
@@ -186,4 +219,5 @@ done
 
 # deploy snapshotclass
 echo "deploying snapshotclass"
-kubectl apply -f ${BASE_DIR}/snapshotter/csi-hostpath-snapshotclass.yaml
+SNAPSHOTCLASS_PATH="${BASE_DIR}/snapshotter/csi-hostpath-snapshotclass.yaml"
+kubectl apply -f $SNAPSHOTCLASS_PATH
diff --git a/release-tools/build.make b/release-tools/build.make
index 1b6f35fe1..a9b9d25dc 100644
--- a/release-tools/build.make
+++ b/release-tools/build.make
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ build-%: check-go-version-go
 	CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=linux go build $(GOFLAGS_VENDOR) -a -ldflags '-X main.version=$(REV) -extldflags "-static"' -o ./bin/$* ./cmd/$*
 	if [ "$$ARCH" = "amd64" ]; then \
 		CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=windows go build $(GOFLAGS_VENDOR) -a -ldflags '-X main.version=$(REV) -extldflags "-static"' -o ./bin/$*.exe ./cmd/$* ; \
+		CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=linux GOARCH=ppc64le go build $(GOFLAGS_VENDOR) -a -ldflags '-X main.version=$(REV) -extldflags "-static"' -o ./bin/$*-ppc64le ./cmd/$* ; \
 	fi
 
 container-%: build-%
diff --git a/release-tools/prow.sh b/release-tools/prow.sh
index 3b9621a21..9bfdc2e28 100755
--- a/release-tools/prow.sh
+++ b/release-tools/prow.sh
@@ -107,8 +107,7 @@ configvar CSI_PROW_GO_VERSION_GINKGO "${CSI_PROW_GO_VERSION_BUILD}" "Go version
 # kind version to use. If the pre-installed version is different,
 # the desired version is downloaded from https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind/releases/download/
 # (if available), otherwise it is built from source.
-# TODO: https://github.com/kubernetes-csi/csi-release-tools/issues/39
-configvar CSI_PROW_KIND_VERSION "86bc23d84ac12dcb56a0528890736e2c347c2dc3" "kind"
+configvar CSI_PROW_KIND_VERSION "v0.6.0" "kind"
 
 # ginkgo test runner version to use. If the pre-installed version is
 # different, the desired version is built from source.
@@ -322,13 +321,20 @@ configvar CSI_PROW_E2E_ALPHA_GATES_1_16 'VolumeSnapshotDataSource=true' "alpha f
 configvar CSI_PROW_E2E_ALPHA_GATES_LATEST 'VolumeSnapshotDataSource=true' "alpha feature gates for latest Kubernetes"
 configvar CSI_PROW_E2E_ALPHA_GATES "$(get_versioned_variable CSI_PROW_E2E_ALPHA_GATES "${csi_prow_kubernetes_version_suffix}")" "alpha E2E feature gates"
 
+# Which external-snapshotter tag to use for the snapshotter CRD and snapshot-controller deployment
+configvar CSI_SNAPSHOTTER_VERSION 'v2.0.0-rc4' "external-snapshotter version tag"
+
 # Some tests are known to be unusable in a KinD cluster. For example,
 # stopping kubelet with "ssh <node IP> systemctl stop kubelet" simply
 # doesn't work. Such tests should be written in a way that they verify
 # whether they can run with the current cluster provider, but until
 # they are, we filter them out by name. Like the other test selection
 # variables, this is again a space separated list of regular expressions.
-configvar CSI_PROW_E2E_SKIP 'Disruptive' "tests that need to be skipped"
+#
+# "different node" test skips can be removed once
+# https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82678 has been backported
+# to all the K8s versions we test against
+configvar CSI_PROW_E2E_SKIP 'Disruptive|different\s+node' "tests that need to be skipped"
 
 # This is the directory for additional result files. Usually set by Prow, but
 # if not (for example, when invoking manually) it defaults to the work directory.
@@ -524,6 +530,7 @@ apiVersion: kind.sigs.k8s.io/v1alpha3
 nodes:
 - role: control-plane
 - role: worker
+- role: worker
 EOF
 
     # kubeadm has API dependencies between apiVersion and Kubernetes version
@@ -576,8 +583,20 @@ EOF
             die "Cluster creation failed again, giving up. See the 'kind-cluster' artifact directory for additional logs."
         fi
     fi
-    KUBECONFIG="$(kind get kubeconfig-path --name=csi-prow)"
-    export KUBECONFIG
+    export KUBECONFIG="${HOME}/.kube/config"
+}
+
+# Deletes kind cluster inside a prow job
+delete_cluster_inside_prow_job() {
+    # Inside a real Prow job it is better to clean up at runtime
+    # instead of leaving that to the Prow job cleanup code
+    # because the later sometimes times out (https://github.com/kubernetes-csi/csi-release-tools/issues/24#issuecomment-554765872).
+    if [ "$JOB_NAME" ]; then
+        if kind get clusters | grep -q csi-prow; then
+            run kind delete cluster --name=csi-prow || die "kind delete failed"
+        fi
+        unset KUBECONFIG
+    fi
 }
 
 # Looks for the deployment as specified by CSI_PROW_DEPLOYMENT and CSI_PROW_KUBERNETES_VERSION
@@ -657,6 +676,60 @@ install_hostpath () {
     fi
 }
 
+# Installs all nessesary snapshotter CRDs  
+install_snapshot_crds() {
+  # Wait until volumesnapshot CRDs are in place.
+  CRD_BASE_DIR="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes-csi/external-snapshotter/${CSI_SNAPSHOTTER_VERSION}/config/crd"
+  kubectl apply -f "${CRD_BASE_DIR}/snapshot.storage.k8s.io_volumesnapshotclasses.yaml" --validate=false
+  kubectl apply -f "${CRD_BASE_DIR}/snapshot.storage.k8s.io_volumesnapshots.yaml" --validate=false
+  kubectl apply -f "${CRD_BASE_DIR}/snapshot.storage.k8s.io_volumesnapshotcontents.yaml" --validate=false
+  cnt=0
+  until kubectl get volumesnapshotclasses.snapshot.storage.k8s.io \
+    && kubectl get volumesnapshots.snapshot.storage.k8s.io \
+    && kubectl get volumesnapshotcontents.snapshot.storage.k8s.io; do
+    if [ $cnt -gt 30 ]; then
+        echo >&2 "ERROR: snapshot CRDs not ready after over 1 min"
+        exit 1
+    fi
+    echo "$(date +%H:%M:%S)" "waiting for snapshot CRDs, attempt #$cnt"
+	cnt=$((cnt + 1))
+    sleep 2
+  done
+}
+
+# Install snapshot controller and associated RBAC, retrying until the pod is running.
+install_snapshot_controller() {
+  kubectl apply -f "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes-csi/external-snapshotter/${CSI_SNAPSHOTTER_VERSION}/deploy/kubernetes/snapshot-controller/rbac-snapshot-controller.yaml"
+  cnt=0
+  until kubectl get clusterrolebinding snapshot-controller-role; do
+     if [ $cnt -gt 30 ]; then
+        echo "Cluster role bindings:"
+        kubectl describe clusterrolebinding
+        echo >&2 "ERROR: snapshot controller RBAC not ready after over 5 min"
+        exit 1
+    fi
+    echo "$(date +%H:%M:%S)" "waiting for snapshot RBAC setup complete, attempt #$cnt"
+	cnt=$((cnt + 1))
+    sleep 10   
+  done
+
+
+  kubectl apply -f "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes-csi/external-snapshotter/${CSI_SNAPSHOTTER_VERSION}/deploy/kubernetes/snapshot-controller/setup-snapshot-controller.yaml"
+  cnt=0
+  expected_running_pods=$(curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes-csi/external-snapshotter/"${CSI_SNAPSHOTTER_VERSION}"/deploy/kubernetes/snapshot-controller/setup-snapshot-controller.yaml | grep replicas | cut -d ':' -f 2-)
+  while [ "$(kubectl get pods -l app=snapshot-controller | grep 'Running' -c)" -lt "$expected_running_pods" ]; do
+    if [ $cnt -gt 30 ]; then
+        echo "snapshot-controller pod status:"
+        kubectl describe pods -l app=snapshot-controller
+        echo >&2 "ERROR: snapshot controller not ready after over 5 min"
+        exit 1
+    fi
+    echo "$(date +%H:%M:%S)" "waiting for snapshot controller deployment to complete, attempt #$cnt"
+	cnt=$((cnt + 1))
+    sleep 10   
+  done
+}
+
 # collect logs and cluster status (like the version of all components, Kubernetes version, test version)
 collect_cluster_info () {
     cat <<EOF
@@ -773,10 +846,6 @@ run_e2e () (
     install_e2e || die "building e2e.test failed"
     install_ginkgo || die "installing ginkgo failed"
 
-    # TODO (?): multi-node cluster (depends on https://github.com/kubernetes-csi/csi-driver-host-path/pull/14).
-    # When running on a multi-node cluster, we need to figure out where the
-    # hostpath driver was deployed and set ClientNodeName accordingly.
-
     generate_test_driver >"${CSI_PROW_WORK}/test-driver.yaml" || die "generating test-driver.yaml failed"
 
     # Rename, merge and filter JUnit files. Necessary in case that we run the E2E suite again
@@ -927,6 +996,32 @@ make_test_to_junit () {
     fi
 }
 
+# version_gt returns true if arg1 is greater than arg2.
+#
+# This function expects versions to be one of the following formats:
+#   X.Y.Z, release-X.Y.Z, vX.Y.Z
+#
+#   where X,Y, and Z are any number.
+#
+# Partial versions (1.2, release-1.2) work as well.
+# The follow substrings are stripped before version comparison:
+#   - "v"
+#   - "release-"
+#
+# Usage:
+# version_gt release-1.3 v1.2.0  (returns true)
+# version_gt v1.1.1 v1.2.0  (returns false)
+# version_gt 1.1.1 v1.2.0  (returns false)
+# version_gt 1.3.1 v1.2.0  (returns true)
+# version_gt 1.1.1 release-1.2.0  (returns false)
+# version_gt 1.2.0 1.2.2  (returns false)
+function version_gt() { 
+    versions=$(for ver in "$@"; do ver=${ver#release-}; echo "${ver#v}"; done)
+    greaterVersion=${1#"release-"};
+    greaterVersion=${greaterVersion#"v"};
+    test "$(printf '%s' "$versions" | sort -V | head -n 1)" != "$greaterVersion"
+}
+
 main () {
     local images ret
     ret=0
@@ -987,6 +1082,16 @@ main () {
         if tests_need_non_alpha_cluster; then
             start_cluster || die "starting the non-alpha cluster failed"
 
+            # Install necessary snapshot CRDs and snapshot controller
+            # For Kubernetes 1.17+, we will install the CRDs and snapshot controller.
+            if version_gt "${CSI_PROW_KUBERNETES_VERSION}" "1.16.255" || "${CSI_PROW_KUBERNETES_VERSION}" == "latest"; then
+                info "Version ${CSI_PROW_KUBERNETES_VERSION}, installing CRDs and snapshot controller"
+                install_snapshot_crds
+                install_snapshot_controller
+            else
+                info "Version ${CSI_PROW_KUBERNETES_VERSION}, skipping CRDs and snapshot controller"
+            fi
+
             # Installing the driver might be disabled.
             if install_hostpath "$images"; then
                 collect_cluster_info
@@ -1017,12 +1122,23 @@ main () {
                     fi
                 fi
             fi
+            delete_cluster_inside_prow_job
         fi
 
         if tests_need_alpha_cluster && [ "${CSI_PROW_E2E_ALPHA_GATES}" ]; then
             # Need to (re)create the cluster.
             start_cluster "${CSI_PROW_E2E_ALPHA_GATES}" || die "starting alpha cluster failed"
 
+            # Install necessary snapshot CRDs and snapshot controller
+            # For Kubernetes 1.17+, we will install the CRDs and snapshot controller.
+            if version_gt "${CSI_PROW_KUBERNETES_VERSION}" "1.16.255" || "${CSI_PROW_KUBERNETES_VERSION}" == "latest"; then
+                info "Version ${CSI_PROW_KUBERNETES_VERSION}, installing CRDs and snapshot controller"
+                install_snapshot_crds
+                install_snapshot_controller
+            else
+                info "Version ${CSI_PROW_KUBERNETES_VERSION}, skipping CRDs and snapshot controller"
+            fi
+
             # Installing the driver might be disabled.
             if install_hostpath "$images"; then
                 collect_cluster_info
@@ -1047,6 +1163,7 @@ main () {
                     fi
                 fi
             fi
+            delete_cluster_inside_prow_job
         fi
     fi