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Summary

Two fixes to the gcp-driver-installer health check found during the live GKE H100 validation of #2360 (merged before these could be appended): the migration-defense label assert keys on app.kubernetes.io/part-of: aicr instead of managed-by: aicr, and the check's assert budget drops from 10m to 5m, below the expected-resources Job's 8m activeDeadline.

Motivation / Context

Live validation on a GKE COS H100 cluster (gtprjpor-dgxc-k8s-gcp-ams-dev1, europe-west4) caught a compound failure the unit and render tests could not see:

  1. Helm 4 server-side apply rewrites app.kubernetes.io/managed-by to Helm at install (the generated install.sh detects Helm 4 via --force-conflicts). The health check's managed-by: aicr assert — added for the migration defense in the feat(recipes)!: GKE bundle-installer replaces driver-installer #2360 review — can therefore never match a deployed bundle. Verified on-cluster: the deployed DaemonSet carries managed-by: Helm; after this fix it also carries part-of: aicr, which SSA leaves alone. The migration-defense intent is unchanged — a hand-applied installer DaemonSet carries neither label.
  2. The never-true assert then burned the check's full effective budget (the in-process executor clamps the authored 10m to its 6m caller budget, pkg/chainsaw/inprocess.go), pushing the expected-resources Job's aggregate run past its 8m activeDeadline — the exact validate: DeadlineExceeded validator reports 'pod not found' status=other, hiding real assert failures #2186 failure shape the nvsentinel check documents: the Job is deadline-killed, the pod is deleted, and the report shows "no pod remains for it, so its logs are unavailable" instead of the assert diff. Confirmed live: 13/14 component health checks passed in 3s and the pod stalled on this one until the deadline. With both fixes, expected-resources passes in seconds.

Fixes: N/A
Related: #2360, #1716, #2186

Type of Change

  • Bug fix (non-breaking change that fixes an issue)

Component(s) Affected

  • Other: recipe health checks (recipes/checks/gcp-driver-installer/, recipes/components/gcp-driver-installer/)

Implementation Notes

The manifest keeps managed-by: aicr (repo convention; several other manifests set it) and adds part-of: aicr with a comment explaining the Helm 4 rewrite; only the assert moves to part-of. Note the same silent rewrite affects every other manifest that sets managed-by: aicr (e.g. nvidia-peermem-reloader) — harmless there since nothing asserts on it, but worth a follow-up sweep.

Testing

GOFLAGS=-mod=vendor go test ./recipes/ ./pkg/bundler/validations/ ./validators/deployment/... -count=1   # all ok

Live-cluster validation (aicr built from this branch)

Environment: fresh DGXC-blueprint GKE cluster gtprjpor-dgxc-k8s-gcp-ams-dev1 (europe-west4, GKE 1.34.10), 1× a3-megagpu-8g (8× H100) on COS 125 (19216.532.62), GPU pool provisioned with gke-no-default-nvidia-gpu-device-plugin=true and no GKE-managed driver, node tainted nvidia.com/gpu=present:NoSchedule, no hand-applied installer present. Flow: aicr snapshotrecipe --profile gpuStack=bundle-installerbundle → deploy all 15 components → aicr validate.

Claim Result
Driverless labeled pool → snapshot records driver-loaded: false
Recipe resolves with the profile, gpuDriverState: absent persisted, no driver-mismatch warning
Bundle generates from the absent state (#2360's Rule 1 fix)
Installer DaemonSet tolerates the GPU taint, validates 580.173.02 against the COS curated list, installs and verifies the driver
GKE's managed plugin suppressed (all nvidia-gpu-device-plugin-* at 0 desired); GPU Operator's plugin sole advertiser, nvidia.com/gpu: 8; CUDA validator Completed
NVSentinel labeler observed the installer's driver pod (assumeDriverInstalled=false path)
Readiness pre-flight incl. the profile's node-label constraint
expected-resources — all 14 component health checks, incl. this check asserting part-of: aicr against the deployed DaemonSet with this fix (times out at the Job deadline without it — 13/14 pass in 3s, then the stalled assert burns the budget)
Conformance phase (12 checks)

Environmental residuals on this 1-node, infra-only cluster (both fail with clean deterministic messages, unrelated to this fix): nccl-all-reduce-bw needs ≥2 GPU nodes; gke-gpu-nic-networks needs the multi-network Network objects the DGXC runtime creates. Same report posted on #2360 for the feature-PR record.

Risk Assessment

  • Low — Isolated change, well-tested, easy to revert

Rollout notes: N/A — check-content only; no version pins moved (BOM unaffected).

Checklist

  • Tests pass locally (make test with -race)
  • Linter passes (make lint)
  • I did not skip/disable tests to make CI green
  • I added/updated tests for new functionality
  • I updated docs if user-facing behavior changed
  • Changes follow existing patterns in the codebase
  • Commits are cryptographically signed (git commit -S)

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Walkthrough

The GCP driver installer DaemonSet now includes the app.kubernetes.io/part-of: aicr label. The health check uses this label instead of app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: aicr and reduces its assertion timeout from 10 minutes to 5 minutes. A render test validates the label and timeout contracts. Generated bundle and recipe digests are updated.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

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This PR corrects the installer health-check label assertion and reduces its timeout so expected-resources validation completes within the Job deadline; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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Review — multi-persona + adversarial meta-review

Method: three parallel persona reviewers (Correctness/Domain · Timeout-safety/Operability · Test-coverage/Consistency), then a senior meta-reviewer that independently re-derived every finding from the resolved code. Anchored to head 8d515e05.

Legend: 🔴 Blocker · 🟠 Major · 🟡 Minor · 🔵 Nitpick

Overall assessment

Correct and safe to merge — approve with comments. The core fix was independently reproduced on all three legs:

  1. Subset match works. The assert does a single-Get by name, then kyverno-json subset-matches the whole spec including metadata.labels. Asserting part-of: aicr passes on the deployed object even though it also carries the SSA-stamped managed-by: Helm; the old managed-by: aicr assert could never match a Helm-installed bundle.
  2. The stall mechanism is real. A label mismatch on an existing DaemonSet returns a shape-mismatch (ErrCodeInternal), which disables the 30s absent-grace — so the bad assert burned its full budget rather than fast-failing (the #2186 shape).
  3. Migration defense preserved. Google's hand-applied upstream installer carries neither part-of: aicr nor managed-by: aicr, so a leftover unmanaged DaemonSet still cannot false-pass. part-of sits on mutable metadata.labels, not the immutable spec.selector → no upgrade conflict.

No blockers, no majors. One worthwhile hardening ask and two prose/coverage nits (inline).

Confirmed non-issues (examined, not flagged)

  • managed-by: aicr is now a permanently-dead label (Helm rewrites it to Helm at install). Harmless, documented inline, matches repo convention; no consumer selects this DaemonSet by managed-by; the PR body already flags a repo-wide follow-up sweep. No action for this PR.
  • No ownership/prune/undeploy path selects driver-installer by managed-by or part-of (searched recipes/ pkg/ validators/ cmd/).
  • Status asserts (desiredNumberScheduled > 0, numberReady == desiredNumberScheduled) unchanged and sound; BOM unaffected (label, not image-bearing); registry wiring intact.

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🔴 Blocker 0 | 🟠 Major 0 | 🟡 Minor 1 | 🔵 Nitpick 2     Recommendation: Approve with comments

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Re-Review — all prior findings addressed ✅

Method: delta re-review. I reviewed at 8d515e05 (3 inline findings); commit 21f2dca9 "test: pin the health-check label contract; correct the budget rationale" landed since. I dispositioned each prior finding against the resolved code at head 21f2dca9 and swept the delta for net-new issues.

Prior-feedback status

# Prior finding Disposition Evidence
1 🟡 Minor — part-of label ↔ assert-key contract has no regression test ✔️ Addressed TestGCPDriverInstallerLabelContract pins both sides — rendered DaemonSet must carry part-of: aicr, the check must assert exactly that key, and asserting managed-by at all fails the test with an SSA-rewrite explanation. go test ./recipes/ passes.
2 🔵 Nitpick — timeout comment describes the pre-cap world ✔️ Addressed Comment rewritten to the accurate chain. Verified independently: ChainsawAssertTimeout = 6*time.Minute and inprocess.go effectiveTimeout only shortens the caller budget, so the old authored 10m never applied.
3 🔵 Nitpick — no budget-pin test, asymmetric with sibling #2186 fix ✔️ Addressed (alt) Folded into the label-contract test rather than a standalone budget pin. Sound: with the label key pinned and the 6m clamp, a budget revert alone can't reproduce the #2186 deadline kill here — unlike nvsentinel, whose DaemonSets stall forever at 0-desired, which is why its check pins a 2m ceiling. The asymmetry is legitimate.

Delta sweep

No net-new findings. The new TestGCPDriverInstallerLabelContract is well-constructed: single-doc render, correct steps→try→assert→resource→metadata→labels walk, unmarshalErr avoids shadowing, and it fails closed both ways (missing part-of and present managed-by).

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  • Sub-nitpick residual on #3: the literal assert: 5m value isn't itself pinned, but per the (correct) rationale it's no longer load-bearing for the failure mode.
  • I couldn't run golangci-lint locally (pinned binary built with go1.26 vs config targeting go1.27 — environment skew, not a code defect); the added Go is idiomatic and go test builds clean. Worth a green CI lint job before merge.
🔴 0 | 🟠 0 | 🟡 0 | 🔵 0   — all 3 prior findings ✔️ Addressed; 0 net-new

Approving — every prior finding is resolved against the current code, the fix is backed by a real regression test pinning the exact contract live GKE validation surfaced, and the delta introduces nothing new.

… check

Live validation on GKE caught it: Helm 4 server-side apply rewrites
app.kubernetes.io/managed-by to "Helm" at install, so the managed-by:
aicr assert could never match a deployed bundle. The manifest now also
carries app.kubernetes.io/part-of: aicr — which SSA leaves alone,
verified on-cluster — and the health check asserts that instead. The
migration-defense intent is unchanged: a hand-applied installer
DaemonSet carries neither label.

Signed-off-by: Atif Mahmood <atif1996@users.noreply.github.com>
…dline

A 10m assert budget exceeds the expected-resources Job's 8m
activeDeadline, converting any never-true assert into a deadline kill
with no surviving logs (the #2186 failure shape, reproduced live while
diagnosing the managed-by assert). 5m fails fast with the real assert
diff; the healthy path passes in seconds and a fresh node mid
driver-install completes in ~2m.

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The label-contract test asserts both sides: the rendered DaemonSet
carries part-of: aicr and the health check keys on exactly that label,
never managed-by (which Helm 4 SSA rewrites, silently regressing to the
never-match stall). The budget comment now reflects the in-process 6m
clamp: the old 10m never applied as written — the never-true assert
burned the clamped budget and the Job aggregate crossed its 8m deadline.

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Rebased onto current main (a792a9a7) — old HEAD 21f2dca9, new HEAD dc2981f9; clean replay, same 3-file change set, tests green. The rebase dismissed the approval; this branch is also the base for the v0.21.0-rc1 test artifact (complete GKE change set including these fixes).

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The label diagnosis and the fix are sound. Blocking on regenerating the committed goldens; two suites are affected, in different packages.

Blocking: regenerate both parity goldens

Both changed content files feed hashed goldens, and two suites fail at ae5b748fc. The required check is gate; it fails because its dependency tests / Test fails, and inside that job both of these fail:

--- FAIL: TestCatalogParityGolden (19.12s)
    catalog_parity_golden_test.go:123: leaf "a100-gke-cos-training-kubeflow"
    resolved bytes changed: golden 514f9963..., now e6aac609...

--- FAIL: TestStockRenderParityGolden (27.62s)
    stock_render_parity_golden_test.go:136: leaf "a100-gke-cos-training-kubeflow"
    rendered bytes changed: golden 0fb904af..., now 8d3ba7fd...

Both are expected drift rather than a defect: the health-check YAML is hydrated into resolved recipes, and the manifest's new part-of: aicr label changes rendered bundle bytes. They live in different packages and need separate regeneration commands:

AICR_UPDATE_GOLDEN=1 go test ./pkg/recipe/  -run TestCatalogParityGolden
AICR_UPDATE_GOLDEN=1 go test ./pkg/bundler/ -run TestStockRenderParityGolden

Then confirm the blast radius: exactly six entries should move in each, and the same six in both — a100-gke-cos-training-kubeflow, b200-gke-cos-inference-dynamo, b200-gke-cos-training-kubeflow, h100-gke-cos-inference-dynamo, h100-gke-cos-training-kubeflow, h100-gke-cos-training-slurm. Those are the GKE-COS leaves carrying gcp-driver-installer. Anything outside that list means the change reached further than intended.

Sequencing. The branch is three commits behind main and carries a merge commit, so rebase onto current origin/main first, then regenerate both goldens against that base — regenerating before the rebase produces digests that may not match the post-rebase tree. The rebase is a force-push on a non-draft PR with existing review anchors, so use the guarded form and note the old and new SHA on the PR so anyone mid-review knows to restart.

Non-blocking notes inline.

Out of scope

Ten other manifest files under recipes/components/ set a literal app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: aicr (network-operator, nvidia-dra-driver-gpu, agentgateway, nodewright-operator, gke-nccl-tcpxo x2, gpu-operator x2, nvsentinel, plus the peermem reloader). The PR body already flags this. It is an audit candidate rather than a confirmed defect — the rewrite only matters where something asserts on the label, and nothing currently does. Worth a follow-up issue so the next check author does not hit the same trap; not a change for this diff.

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Review hardening: the contract test now asserts spec.timeouts.assert
stays at or below 5m (specifically 5m, not merely under the 6m executor
clamp — preserving the margin against the Job's 8m activeDeadline), and
the label assertions select the nvidia-driver-installer DaemonSet's own
assert by metadata.name rather than unioning labels across the file, so
a part-of label on a future sibling assertion cannot mask a regression.

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- Around line 203-204: The assertion-budget validation must reject zero
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time.ParseDuration accepts "0s", and the in-process executor applies an
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to its 6m caller budget, silently bypassing the 5m cap this test pins.
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Could you regenerate the two committed parity goldens in this PR? That is the only thing still blocking it — tests / Test fails at ec275c4f, which fails gate.

Both changed content files are hashed into the goldens, so the commit that changes the content has to carry the updated hashes; a follow-up would leave main red.

Regenerate from this branch:

AICR_UPDATE_GOLDEN=1 go test ./pkg/recipe/  -run TestCatalogParityGolden
AICR_UPDATE_GOLDEN=1 go test ./pkg/bundler/ -run TestStockRenderParityGolden

That updates pkg/recipe/testdata/catalog_parity_golden.yaml and pkg/bundler/testdata/stock_render_golden.yaml.

Worth checking the diff before committing: exactly six leaves should move, the same six in both files — a100-gke-cos-training-kubeflow, b200-gke-cos-inference-dynamo, b200-gke-cos-training-kubeflow, h100-gke-cos-inference-dynamo, h100-gke-cos-training-kubeflow, h100-gke-cos-training-slurm. Only GKE COS leaves carry gcp-driver-installer, so any other leaf moving, or a leaf being added or removed, would mean the change leaked beyond its intended scope. Both goldens ask for the diff to be justified in the PR, so a line in Implementation Notes covering the part-of: aicr label and the assert-budget change should do it.

Everything else on the PR is resolved — the label diagnosis and the fix itself look right to me.

The catalog digests include recipes/checks/ content, so the part-of
label, budget, and comment changes shift the goldens; the merge from
main had restored main's stale copies.

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