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Summary

Declares the first host GPU driver floor in the catalog — Deployment.gpu-driver.version: ">= 575.57.08" on the four RTX PRO 6000 service x intent leaves — and establishes the placement rule and regression tests that make future floors safe to add.

Fixes: #2438

Motivation / Context

check-nvidia-smi gained a Deployment.gpu-driver.version constraint in #1995, with fail-closed semantics when a declared floor cannot be measured. No recipe ever declared one, so the enforcement hook has been built and idle since it landed.

This is the consuming half. It is a validation contract, not a deploy gate: without a floor, aicr validate cannot fail on an out-of-spec driver. It does not reject the recipe or stop Helm — that distinction separates it from #2402, where the chart's own kubeVersion causes Helm to refuse installation.

Related: #1995 (the validator hook), #2402 (same missing-requirement-expression pattern, Kubernetes-version instance), #2439 (GPU stack version bump — merge that first, see Sequencing)

Type of Change

  • Bug fix (non-breaking change that fixes an issue)
  • New feature (non-breaking change that adds functionality)
  • Breaking change
  • Documentation update
  • Refactoring (no functional changes)
  • Build/CI/tooling

Component(s) Affected

  • CLI (cmd/aicr, pkg/cli)
  • API server
  • Recipe engine / data (pkg/recipe)
  • Bundlers
  • Collectors / snapshotter
  • Validator (pkg/validator) — no validator change; the hook already exists
  • Core libraries
  • Docs/examples

Implementation Notes

The placement rule — the durable part of this change

Declare a floor on the maximal-leaf overlay for the affected service x accelerator x intent family. Never on an *-any wildcard, never on base, never on an accelerator-unbound service overlay.

FindMatchingOverlays sorts candidates by criteria specificity ascending, then merges each candidate's full inheritance chain root to leaf. Resolved through the production path:

criteria(service=eks, accelerator=rtx-pro-6000, intent=training)
  applied=[base monitoring-hpa rtx-pro-6000-any eks eks-training rtx-pro-6000-eks-training]

The accelerator wildcard rtx-pro-6000-any is applied before the service overlays. Constraints merge by name with the later overlay winning and no max comparison (pkg/recipe/validation.go:140-172), so *-any is the weakest position for a floor, not the broadest — the inverse of the natural intuition, and precisely the silent-downgrade path #2438 predicted.

The four declaring leaves were selected by resolving all 12 rtx-pro-6000 queries rather than reading filenames. Each is the maximal leaf for its own query and sits in the chain of every deeper OS/platform leaf, so one declaration covers all 12 and nothing later can overwrite it.

No gpuStack profile exists anywhere in the EKS/LKE chains, so there is no alternate-profile dimension for these leaves. (Profile values cannot carry a Deployment.* constraint in any case: ProfileValue.constraints are validated as measurement paths at catalog load, and Deployment is not a measurement Type.)

The floor, and why this source and not the obvious one

Source recorded in a comment beside each declaration — NVIDIA GPU Operator platform support:

"NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition notes: Driver versions 575.57.08 or later is required."

This is a product-level minimum: OS- and provider-independent, so it holds across the whole chain.

Google's per-accelerator numbers (L4/H100 >= 535, H200 >= 550, B200 >= 570) were deliberately not used. They sit under "GPUs on Ubuntu nodes -> Ubuntu driver compatibility", and all 14 AICR GKE overlays declare os: cos. Applying them to COS leaves would assert a minimum neither Google nor NVIDIA has stated for COS.

Likewise HGX B200 >= 570.133.20 is documented as a driver container version — the operator's driver image — so it does not transfer to host-managed leaves.

Tests (pkg/recipe/gpu_driver_floor_test.go)

  • TestGPUDriverFloorEffectiveValue — 11 subtests asserting the final effective value for every affected resolved combination, plus that check-nvidia-smi is present so the floor is not inert.
  • TestGPUDriverFloorWildcardIsWeakestPosition — pins the ordering fact the rule depends on, so a resolver change surfaces loudly rather than silently downgrading floors.
  • TestGPUDriverFloorPlacementInvariant — rejects any future floor on a wildcard, base, or accelerator-unbound overlay; fails closed if zero floors exist, so it cannot go vacuous.

Both controls were demonstrated to fire. Injecting a lower >= 550.00.00 on rtx-pro-6000-eks-ubuntu-training failed exactly the two inheriting rows with a last-wins diagnostic; moving a floor onto rtx-pro-6000-any failed the invariant. Both reverted.

What this does NOT close

The issue's headline example is not implemented, and #2438 should stay open:

  • GB300 / GKE A4X MaxR580.95.05 is genuinely documented, but every gb300-* overlay is EKS. There is no GKE GB300 overlay to attach it to.
  • GKE COS (all 14 overlays) — no COS-scoped minimum is published anywhere.
  • H200 — GKE/Ubuntu-scoped only; AICR's H200 overlays are EKS.
  • A100 — no documented minimum (Google lists R470/R525/R535/R550 as choices, not a floor).
  • AKS and OKE — neither provider publishes a per-accelerator host-driver minimum.

Option D from the issue (matching a floor to the configured driver.version pin) is a different contract — rollout convergence, not minimum compatibility — and remains deferred.

Sequencing

Merge #2439 first. Both branches regenerate the same two parity-golden files, and a merge-tree check confirms they conflict. After #2439 lands, rebase this branch and regenerate both goldens rather than hand-selecting conflict sides — they are derived files, and hand-resolving a hash produces a golden matching neither tree.

Testing

make qualify

make qualify passed on this branch, verified by log rather than exit code: QUALIFY_EXIT=0 with the Codebase qualification completed sentinel, zero failure-shaped lines across 9,791 lines, 103 packages ok, coverage 84.2% (threshold 80%), golangci-lint 0 issues., e2e "All tests passed!".

Goldens regenerated: exactly 5 leaves moved in each file, all leaf: sha256 lines, all rtx-pro-6000. rtx-pro-6000-any correctly did not move, confirming the floor did not leak into the wildcard.

Rebased onto current main; the diff is byte-identical before and after, and the recipe/bundler golden tests still pass.

Risk Assessment

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

Additive: four constraint declarations and one test file. The floor is far below the driver these families run today, so it is a guard against drift rather than a gate anything currently trips. Reverting is deleting four blocks.

Rollout notes: A declared floor changes check-nvidia-smi from banner-presence to fail-closed on the affected leaves — including when no node can be measured (no GPU nodes, all cordoned, all busy). That is intended per #1995: "a declared gate must not PASS unenforced." Operators running aicr validate against a saturated RTX PRO 6000 cluster will now see a failure where they previously saw a skip.

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 — N/A; no user-facing surface added
  • Changes follow existing patterns in the codebase
  • Commits are cryptographically signed (git commit -S)

The Deployment.gpu-driver.version constraint shipped in NVIDIA#1995 and no
recipe declared it, leaving the enforcement hook idle: a cluster with an
arbitrarily old host driver validated green because check-nvidia-smi
confirmed nvidia-smi ran and compared the version to nothing.

Declare a floor for RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition, which NVIDIA
documents as requiring driver 575.57.08 or later. The floor is keyed to
that documented minimum rather than to a shipped or test-validated
version, which would prove sufficiency but not minimality.

Placement matters because deployment constraints merge last-wins by name
with no max comparison. Candidates resolve in ascending specificity, so
an accelerator wildcard is applied before the service overlays it
composes with -- making *-any the weakest position for a floor, not the
broadest. The floor therefore lives on the four service x intent leaves,
each of which is applied last for its own query and sits in the chain of
every deeper OS/platform leaf.

Add table-driven tests asserting the final effective floor for all 11
affected resolved combinations, an invariant test rejecting a floor
placed on a wildcard, base, or accelerator-unbound overlay, and a test
pinning the ordering fact the rule rests on.

Refs NVIDIA#2438

Signed-off-by: Yuan Chen <yuanchen97@gmail.com>
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Recipe evidence check

Protected recipes

Recipes with committed evidence (recipes/evidence/<slug>/<source>/<digest>.yaml) that this PR affects: 1

Recipe Source Pointer Verify Digest match
rtx-pro-6000-eks-ubuntu-inference-dynamo 5bf9e82f0e90a11528ac85f4bcb866c8 sha256-3ec33498d3df68b688ae96280634c1a4403b7502a49016be54aecc70b0d2549e ✅ passed ⚠️ stale (348eada47742… vs current 126965a69d80…)
Other affected recipes without evidence yet: 10

These recipes are affected by this PR but carry no committed evidence pointer, so there is
nothing to verify. This is expected — evidence is hardware-gated and added over time.

  • rtx-pro-6000-eks-inference
  • rtx-pro-6000-eks-training
  • rtx-pro-6000-eks-ubuntu-inference-nim
  • rtx-pro-6000-eks-ubuntu-inference
  • rtx-pro-6000-eks-ubuntu-training-kubeflow
  • rtx-pro-6000-eks-ubuntu-training
  • rtx-pro-6000-lke-inference
  • rtx-pro-6000-lke-training
  • rtx-pro-6000-lke-ubuntu-inference
  • rtx-pro-6000-lke-ubuntu-training

How to refresh evidence

Run on a cluster matching the recipe's criteria:

aicr snapshot -o snapshot.yaml
# Profiled families (AKS/GKE gpuStack): hydrate the recipe with the
# pointer's recorded 'profile:' selection first — validating the raw
# overlay resolves only the declaration default, and 'aicr validate'
# has no --profile flag. AKS additionally needs the pool projection
# (GKE uses the plain snapshot above):
#   az aks nodepool list -g <rg> --cluster-name <cluster> -o json > pools.json
#   aicr snapshot --aks-gpu-pools pools.json -o snapshot.yaml
#   aicr recipe -s snapshot.yaml --intent <intent> [--platform <platform>] \
#     --profile <name>=<value> -o recipe.yaml
# State the target leaf's intent/platform explicitly (the snapshot
# fingerprint supplies service/accelerator/OS but intent and platform
# default to 'any') and pass -r recipe.yaml below instead of the raw
# overlay.
aicr validate \
  -r recipes/overlays/<slug>.yaml \
  -s snapshot.yaml \
  --emit-attestation ./out \
  --push ghcr.io/<your-fork>/aicr-evidence
# Copy to the per-source path printed in the emit 'copyTo' hint:
#   recipes/evidence/<slug>/<source>/<bundle-digest>.yaml

This gate is warning-only and never blocks merge. See ADR-007 for the trust model.

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Adds Deployment.gpu-driver.version >= 575.57.08 constraints to RTX PRO 6000 EKS and LKE inference and training overlays. Adds resolver tests for effective floors, deployment checks, overlay ordering, and constraint placement. Updates stock-render and catalog-parity golden digests.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main change: adding the RTX PRO 6000 host GPU driver floor and its placement rule.
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In `@pkg/recipe/gpu_driver_floor_test.go`:
- Around line 125-224: Add a table case in the resolvedDriverFloor coverage
using an RTX PRO 6000 leaf with a non-empty profile selection, and assert
rtxProDriverFloor remains the effective result. Ensure the case exercises the
selection field or argument passed to resolvedDriverFloor rather than the
default empty selection, while preserving the existing inheritance assertions.
- Around line 71-113: Refactor the GPU driver floor test helpers so each
criteria is resolved only once: return the resolved deployment phase from a
shared helper, then inspect its Constraints for gpuDriverFloorConstraint and its
Checks directly instead of calling both resolvedDriverFloor and
hasDeploymentCheck. Use the concrete deployment phase type declared by the
package, and reorder helper parameters to place ctx before t; update all
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Comment thread pkg/recipe/gpu_driver_floor_test.go Outdated
Comment on lines +125 to +224
tests := []struct {
name string
criteria *Criteria
want string
}{
// EKS: the two overlays that declare the floor.
{
name: "rtx-pro-6000 eks training declares the floor",
criteria: &Criteria{
Service: CriteriaServiceEKS, Accelerator: CriteriaAcceleratorRTXPro6000,
Intent: CriteriaIntentTraining,
},
want: rtxProDriverFloor,
},
{
name: "rtx-pro-6000 eks inference declares the floor",
criteria: &Criteria{
Service: CriteriaServiceEKS, Accelerator: CriteriaAcceleratorRTXPro6000,
Intent: CriteriaIntentInference,
},
want: rtxProDriverFloor,
},
// EKS: deeper OS / platform leaves must inherit it unchanged.
{
name: "rtx-pro-6000 eks ubuntu training inherits the floor",
criteria: &Criteria{
Service: CriteriaServiceEKS, Accelerator: CriteriaAcceleratorRTXPro6000,
OS: CriteriaOSUbuntu, Intent: CriteriaIntentTraining,
},
want: rtxProDriverFloor,
},
{
name: "rtx-pro-6000 eks ubuntu training kubeflow inherits the floor",
criteria: &Criteria{
Service: CriteriaServiceEKS, Accelerator: CriteriaAcceleratorRTXPro6000,
OS: CriteriaOSUbuntu, Intent: CriteriaIntentTraining,
Platform: CriteriaPlatformKubeflow,
},
want: rtxProDriverFloor,
},
{
name: "rtx-pro-6000 eks ubuntu inference inherits the floor",
criteria: &Criteria{
Service: CriteriaServiceEKS, Accelerator: CriteriaAcceleratorRTXPro6000,
OS: CriteriaOSUbuntu, Intent: CriteriaIntentInference,
},
want: rtxProDriverFloor,
},
{
name: "rtx-pro-6000 eks ubuntu inference dynamo inherits the floor",
criteria: &Criteria{
Service: CriteriaServiceEKS, Accelerator: CriteriaAcceleratorRTXPro6000,
OS: CriteriaOSUbuntu, Intent: CriteriaIntentInference,
Platform: CriteriaPlatformDynamo,
},
want: rtxProDriverFloor,
},
{
name: "rtx-pro-6000 eks ubuntu inference nim inherits the floor",
criteria: &Criteria{
Service: CriteriaServiceEKS, Accelerator: CriteriaAcceleratorRTXPro6000,
OS: CriteriaOSUbuntu, Intent: CriteriaIntentInference,
Platform: CriteriaPlatformNIM,
},
want: rtxProDriverFloor,
},
// LKE: the two overlays that declare the floor, plus their leaves.
{
name: "rtx-pro-6000 lke training declares the floor",
criteria: &Criteria{
Service: CriteriaServiceLKE, Accelerator: CriteriaAcceleratorRTXPro6000,
Intent: CriteriaIntentTraining,
},
want: rtxProDriverFloor,
},
{
name: "rtx-pro-6000 lke inference declares the floor",
criteria: &Criteria{
Service: CriteriaServiceLKE, Accelerator: CriteriaAcceleratorRTXPro6000,
Intent: CriteriaIntentInference,
},
want: rtxProDriverFloor,
},
{
name: "rtx-pro-6000 lke ubuntu training inherits the floor",
criteria: &Criteria{
Service: CriteriaServiceLKE, Accelerator: CriteriaAcceleratorRTXPro6000,
OS: CriteriaOSUbuntu, Intent: CriteriaIntentTraining,
},
want: rtxProDriverFloor,
},
{
name: "rtx-pro-6000 lke ubuntu inference inherits the floor",
criteria: &Criteria{
Service: CriteriaServiceLKE, Accelerator: CriteriaAcceleratorRTXPro6000,
OS: CriteriaOSUbuntu, Intent: CriteriaIntentInference,
},
want: rtxProDriverFloor,
},
}

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add at least one non-empty profile selection case.

The table always passes "" as the selection, so the selection parameter of resolvedDriverFloor is never exercised. Issue #2438 requires coverage for alternate profiles. A profile overlay that adds a same-name Deployment.gpu-driver.version constraint would downgrade the floor without any test failing.

Add a case that resolves an RTX PRO 6000 leaf with a real profile selection and asserts the same effective floor.

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In `@pkg/recipe/gpu_driver_floor_test.go` around lines 125 - 224, Add a table case
in the resolvedDriverFloor coverage using an RTX PRO 6000 leaf with a non-empty
profile selection, and assert rtxProDriverFloor remains the effective result.
Ensure the case exercises the selection field or argument passed to
resolvedDriverFloor rather than the default empty selection, while preserving
the existing inheritance assertions.

resolvedDriverFloor and hasDeploymentCheck each built the same recipe, so every
subtest resolved it twice. Split into one resolve plus two pure accessors, and
put ctx before t to match the usual Go parameter order.

Also records why no non-empty profile selection is exercised: no overlay in the
RTX PRO 6000 EKS or LKE chains declares a profile — only aks.yaml and
gke-cos.yaml do anywhere in the catalog — and selecting a profile against a
composition that declares none is rejected at resolution. A profile could not
downgrade this floor even where one exists, because ProfileValue.constraints are
validated as measurement paths at catalog load and Deployment is not a
measurement Type.

Signed-off-by: Yuan Chen <yuanchen97@gmail.com>
@yuanchen8911
yuanchen8911 force-pushed the feat/2438-host-driver-floors branch from 798e37c to 82171d7 Compare August 28, 2026 21:22
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