fix(bundler): warn when GPU nodes lack the DRA kubelet-plugin label - #2457
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 12 included reviews per hour; 8 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe bundler now emits warnings when enabled DRA components require the configured GPU node label. Tests cover default and custom labels, component combinations, and warning content. User and AKS/GKE documentation now requires persistent node-pool labeling and describes silent failures, upgrade effects, and verification steps. Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to This PR adds a non-blocking bundling warning and updates GPU node-label documentation without changing rendered bundle values; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review. Suggested reviewers: 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4✅ Passed checks (4 passed)
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In `@docs/integrator/gke-gpu-setup.md`:
- Around line 381-395: Update the existing-pool retrofit command in Step 2 to
add nvidia.com/dra-kubelet-plugin=true alongside
gke-no-default-nvidia-gpu-device-plugin=true, and update its verification output
to show both labels.
In `@pkg/bundler/bundler.go`:
- Around line 2984-2994: Update the warning built in pkg/bundler/bundler.go
lines 2984-2994 to distinguish zero matching GPU nodes (DESIRED=0 and no
ResourceSlices) from partial label coverage (matching nodes publish slices while
unlabeled nodes lack DRA support). Update the expected warning in
pkg/bundler/bundler_dra_eviction_test.go lines 653-659 and document both
outcomes in docs/user/bundling.md lines 217-227, docs/user/cli-reference.md
lines 1649-1651, docs/integrator/aks-gpu-setup.md lines 135-139, and
docs/integrator/gke-gpu-setup.md lines 391-395.
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382-397: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winAdd the DRA label to the existing-pool retrofit command.
The new upgrade guidance points operators to Step 2, but the command at Line 297 still sets only
gke-no-default-nvidia-gpu-device-plugin=true. After the bundle adds the DRA node selector, no pool node matches it. The DRA kubelet-plugin DaemonSet then remains atDESIRED=0and publishes noResourceSlices.Add
nvidia.com/dra-kubelet-plugin=trueto the complete--node-labelsvalue and include it in the verification output.Proposed fix
- --node-labels="EXISTING_KEY_1=EXISTING_VALUE_1,gke-no-default-nvidia-gpu-device-plugin=true" + --node-labels="EXISTING_KEY_1=EXISTING_VALUE_1,gke-no-default-nvidia-gpu-device-plugin=true,nvidia.com/dra-kubelet-plugin=true"🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@docs/integrator/gke-gpu-setup.md`:
- Around line 382-397: Update the existing-pool retrofit command in Step 2 to
include nvidia.com/dra-kubelet-plugin=true alongside
gke-no-default-nvidia-gpu-device-plugin=true in the complete --node-labels
value, and add the DRA label to the corresponding verification output.
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In `@pkg/bundler/bundler_dra_eviction_test.go`:
- Around line 591-617: The warning test case around the per-node absence
scenario must also assert the “Unlabelled GPU nodes silently run without DRA”
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The DRA kubelet-plugin nodeSelector requires nvidia.com/dra-kubelet-plugin =true. An unlabelled GPU node leaves the DaemonSet at DESIRED=0 with no ResourceSlices and no error from Helm or deploy.sh. Emit a non-blocking bundle-time warning when both nvidia-dra-driver-gpu and gpu-operator are enabled, matching the existing StorageClass warning, and document that the label belongs in the node pool definition. Signed-off-by: Yuan Chen <yuanchen97@gmail.com>
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Each integrator guide has two node-pool creation commands and only one carried the label — and in each guide it was the other path. GKE labelled the bundle-installer pool but not the default-profile pool; AKS labelled the azure-managed pool but not the operator-managed one. The selector condition is that a recipe enables both nvidia-dra-driver-gpu and gpu-operator, which is independent of the gpuStack profile value — both come from base.yaml under either. So an operator copy-pasting either untouched command provisioned a pool that hits exactly the silent failure this change exists to prevent. Also collapses a doubled blank line introduced in each file. Signed-off-by: Yuan Chen <yuanchen97@gmail.com>
Two factual errors in the warning and its documentation. The remediation named a Karpenter nodeClass. Arbitrary node labels live at NodePool.spec.template.metadata.labels; an EC2NodeClass has no such field, so the guidance pointed operators at a resource that cannot carry the label. The failure mode was described as DESIRED=0 with no ResourceSlices in every case. That is only true when NO GPU node carries the label. With partial coverage — the shape node replacement and autoscaling actually produce — labeled nodes work normally while the rest silently lack DRA. That split state is harder to notice than uniform failure, because the DaemonSet looks healthy and only some workloads misbehave. The issue this change implements describes the split state as the durable risk; the warning contradicted it. Also adds the label to the GKE default-profile pool, the GKE retrofit command, and the AKS operator-managed pool. Each guide has two node-pool paths and only one carried the label — in each case the other one. Both corrections are pinned by new table cases, verified by reverting each wording and confirming its case fails. Signed-off-by: Yuan Chen <yuanchen97@gmail.com>
The doc comment on warnDRAEvictionNodeLabelRequired still described one unlabeled node as yielding DESIRED=0, contradicting the warning it introduces. It now states the per-node effect, records that partial coverage is the ordinary lifecycle case rather than an edge one, and cites the cluster measurement: unlabeling one of two GB300 nodes moved the DaemonSet to DESIRED=1, not 0. Also asserts both halves of that distinction in the test — the case previously pinned only the zero-match clause, so a regression deleting the per-node clause would still have passed. Normalizes labelled/unlabelled to the US spellings the repo's misspell locale requires; misspell flags 'labelled' but not 'unlabelled', so the file had both conventions. Signed-off-by: Yuan Chen <yuanchen97@gmail.com>
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In `@docs/integrator/gke-gpu-setup.md`:
- Around line 392-397: Update the handoff check command to include
nvidia.com/dra-kubelet-plugin alongside gke-no-default-nvidia-gpu-device-plugin
in kubectl’s comma-separated -L label list, so it exposes partial DRA label
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… step The verification block after the node-pool commands listed only gke-no-default-nvidia-gpu-device-plugin, so a reader following the new instruction to set nvidia.com/dra-kubelet-plugin=true had no way to confirm it landed. kubectl -L accepts a comma-separated list, so both labels can be shown in one column set. Signed-off-by: Yuan Chen <yuanchen97@gmail.com>
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Multi-persona review — Approve with comments
Method: 4 parallel persona reviewers (Correctness, Test-coverage, Docs, Domain & Architecture) → an adversarial senior meta-reviewer independently re-derived every finding from the resolved code. Anchored to caa38686.
Legend: 🔴 Blocker · 🟠 Major · 🟡 Minor · 🔵 Nitpick
Assessment
Clean, well-scoped fix. The Go change fires on exactly the right condition and mirrors the established warnMissingStorageClassForPVCs precedent; the new table test reaches 100% coverage of the warning function with tight, mutation-resistant assertions. Most importantly, the domain crux claims all verified correct:
- DaemonSet
DESIRED= count of nodes matching the merged nodeSelector →DESIRED=0only with zero labeled GPU nodes, partial coverage →DESIRED=n. The corrected wording replaces the earlier (wrong) blanket-DESIRED=0claim. - An unlabeled node runs no kubelet-plugin pod → publishes no
ResourceSlices(the DaemonSet is the sole publisher). - Scalar
nvidia.com/gpustays advertised via the independent device-plugin DaemonSet → "looks healthy." - All three cloud label mechanisms named correctly: EKS nodegroup
labels, KarpenterNodePool spec.template.metadata.labels(anEC2NodeClasshas no label field), GKE--node-labels, AKS--labels. - All cross-doc anchors resolve (lychee-safe); heading nesting is correct within each doc.
Nothing blocking — all surviving items are nitpicks. Inline comments below, plus one note that couldn't be anchored to the diff:
🔵 docs/user/cli-reference.md L1663 — custom non-true label value: restore wording is imprecise
With the default label (nvidia.com/dra-kubelet-plugin=true) this is a non-issue. But for a custom --dra-eviction-node-label key=value with a non-true value, "The cluster's node-labeling convention must therefore preserve the configured key/value pair when the label is restored" misattributes the restore: it's the GPU Operator k8s-driver-manager (matching on key only), not the node-pool convention, that blanks and restores the label during a driver upgrade. Whether it restores the original value or a fixed sentinel is upstream (k8s-driver-manager image) behavior this repo can't guarantee — if it restores a fixed value, a custom example.com/dra-ready=enabled could come back as ...=true and silently break the DRA nodeSelector, the exact failure this PR warns about. bundling.md L258-260 already hedges this ("catches a Driver Manager rollout that did not restore the eviction label"), so this is just a wording tightening: attribute the restore to the Driver Manager, and caveat non-true values.
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🔴 Blocker 0 | 🟠 Major 0 | 🟡 Minor 0 | 🔵 Nitpick 6 Recommendation: Approve with comments
Confirmed non-issues (examined, cleared): no correctness/security/build defect; the corrected DESIRED=n failure-mode wording is domain-accurate; no broken anchors; the OCP-component and configured-label cases are covered by the new test.
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🔵 — Two-DRA-variant warning path untested / could double-emit
warnDRAEvictionNodeLabelRequired loops over draNames and appends one warning per name, and the detection scan here breaks on first match, so no case supplies >1 DRA ref. A recipe carrying both nvidia-dra-driver-gpu and its -ocp sibling would emit two paragraph-length warnings; a regression double-emitting for one component would still pass. In practice OCP and non-OCP variants are mutually exclusive by overlay, so this path is effectively unreachable and mirrors the accepted warnMissingStorageClassForPVCs per-component precedent — flagging only for completeness.
Fix: Optional: add a case asserting exactly-one warning per single-DRA recipe (drop the break) to lock the cardinality.
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🔵 — Silent-failure prose duplicated across docs
The silent-failure / DESIRED=0 / partial-coverage explanation is repeated across bundling.md, cli-reference.md, and (condensed) the aks/gke guides. No drift exists today, aks/gke correctly cross-link the canonical bundling.md#prepare-dra-nodes-before-applying-upgraded-bundles hub, and per-cloud self-contained docs are the repo norm — so this is acceptable as-is.
Fix: Just keep the load-bearing identifiers (the label, and the DaemonSet name nvidia-dra-driver-gpu-kubelet-plugin) in sync if either ever changes.
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| // one of two nodes moved the DaemonSet to DESIRED=1, not 0. DESIRED=0 applies | ||
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| func (b *DefaultBundler) warnDRAEvictionNodeLabelRequired(draNames []string, label config.NodeLabel) { |
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🔵 — Deploy-time preflight gap deferred (note, not a defect)
The warning fires at bundle-generation time, which can be decoupled in operator/time from both node provisioning and helm upgrade, so nothing fails-closed at the moment the change takes effect. This is the PR's explicitly deferred proposal (2) from #2456 (a deploy.sh preflight / validate readiness constraint comparing live GPU-node label coverage vs the DRA selector). Deferring is reasonable — the warning + docs are a valid first layer.
Fix: Track the deploy-time preflight (or a validate readiness constraint) as the follow-up that closes the gap at apply time.
| An unlabeled GPU node fails silently: it runs no kubelet plugin and publishes | ||
| no `ResourceSlices`, and neither Helm nor the bundle's `deploy.sh` reports an | ||
| error. With no labeled GPU node at all the DaemonSet sits at `DESIRED=0`; with | ||
| only some labeled, those nodes work while the rest silently lack DRA. This applies to existing clusters too — adding |
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🔵 — New sentence jammed onto a soft-wrapped line
"…the rest silently lack DRA. This applies to existing clusters too — adding" starts a new sentence at the end of an over-long soft-wrapped line (same at docs/integrator/gke-gpu-setup.md:395). Renders fine, but reads awkwardly in source and diffs.
Fix: Re-wrap so "This applies to existing clusters too…" starts a fresh line, consistent with the surrounding ~72-char wrap.
| survive node replacement or recycling, cluster autoscaling adding GPU nodes, or | ||
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| **partially DRA-enabled** — worse than uniform failure, because it is |
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🔵 — Editorializing tone louder than reference register
"worse than uniform failure" (L204), "the more dangerous shape" (L226), and "bites hardest" (L238) editorialize more than the surrounding neutral reference prose. Subjective and low priority.
Fix: Optional: soften to factual phrasing, e.g. "partial coverage is harder to detect than a total failure because the DaemonSet still looks healthy."
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aicr bundlenow emits a non-blocking warning when a recipe enables bothnvidia-dra-driver-gpuandgpu-operator, telling the operator that every GPU node must carry the DRA eviction label or the kubelet plugin will never schedule. The user and integrator docs are updated to place that label at node-pool provisioning time and to describe the silent failure mode.Motivation / Context
PR #2401 made the DRA kubelet-plugin
nodeSelectorrequirenvidia.com/dra-kubelet-plugin=true. The design is correct — the Driver Manager blanks and restores that label, so it has to gate placement. The problem is the failure mode: a GPU node without the label runs no kubelet plugin and publishes noResourceSlicesfor itself, with no error from Helm ordeploy.sh, and nothing the operator runs mentions the requirement.DESIRED=0applies only when no GPU node carries the label at all — with partial coverage, labeled nodes work normally while the rest silently lack DRA, which is the shape node replacement and autoscaling actually produce.Fixes: #2456
Related: #2401, #1253, #2439
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cmd/aicr,pkg/cli)cmd/aicrd,pkg/server)pkg/recipe)pkg/bundler,pkg/component/*)pkg/collector,pkg/snapshotter)pkg/validator)pkg/errors,pkg/k8s)docs/,examples/)Implementation Notes
The warning is appended from
injectDRAEvictionLabel, so it fires on exactly the condition that renders the selector — both halves of the eviction contract enabled — and reports the configured label, not just the default. It surfaces through the existingb.warningslist that the CLI prints and that lands in the deployment notes, matchingwarnMissingStorageClassForPVCs. Text:Nothing is written into the rendered bundle values, so no golden files move.
Docs.
docs/user/bundling.mdanddocs/user/cli-reference.mdpreviously presented this as a one-offkubectl label node. Both now say the label belongs in the node pool definition (EKS managed nodegrouplabels, KarpenterNodePoolspec.template.metadata.labels— anEC2NodeClasshas no label field), because an ad hoc label does not survive node replacement, recycling, autoscaling, or a pool scaled from zero — which leaves a cluster partially DRA-enabled. Both call out the existing-cluster upgrade case and state the failure mode explicitly. The new warning is described next to the StorageClass warning incli-reference.md, so the two cluster-state dependencies are covered in one place.docs/integrator/gke-gpu-setup.mdanddocs/integrator/aks-gpu-setup.mdcarry the label in all five node-pool paths between them — GKE's default-profile pool, bundle-installer pool and retrofit update, and AKS's azure-managed and operator-managed pools — plus a short section explaining why it belongs there. Each guide originally labeled only one of its paths, and in each case the other one.Proposal (2) from the issue — a
deploy.shpre-flight that fails when a renderednodeSelectormatches zero nodes — was deliberately not implemented here. It is a materially larger and different change: it givesdeploy.sha cluster query it does not currently make, which means deciding on kubectl/kubeconfig assumptions, behaviour under partial matches, and whether a mismatch should block a deployment or only warn. That is worth deciding on its own rather than folding into this fix. The warning in (1) closes the "nothing tells the operator" gap at the point the artifact is produced; a pre-flight is a complementary second line of defence and should be a follow-up.Testing
make qualifywas NOT run to completion. It cannot finish in this environment —tools/api-diff_test.shfails withmktemp: Operation not permitted, and overridingTMPDIRdoes not help because the script resets it. Its stages were run individually and each read from its own log: race-enabled tests with 0 failures, coverage 84.2% against an 80% threshold,golangci-lint ./...reporting0 issues., and license headers, AGENTS sync, doc filenames, MDX, bom-pinning, tuning-check, license-check, api-diff and scan all exiting 0.e2ewas not run locally — it needs a Kind cluster; CI covers it (48 passing, 0 failing).TestWarnDRAEvictionNodeLabelRequiredis table-driven over eight cases: both components enabled with the default label, both with a configured--dra-eviction-node-label, the-ocpcomponent pair, the Karpenter resource naming, the per-node-vs-DESIRED=0 distinction, and three negatives (DRA absent, GPU Operator absent, neither present).Controls, each verified by reverting the behaviour and confirming the case fails:
warnDRAEvictionNodeLabelRequired(...)call fails the positive cases while the negatives still pass.nodeClassfails the Karpenter case.DESIRED=0wording fails the failure-mode case.No golden bundle output changed, which is expected for a warning that is not written into rendered values. Confirmed by running the parity tests rather than assuming.
Verified on hardware
The warning was exercised end to end by building this branch and generating a real
gb300-eks-ubuntu-training-kubeflowbundle; it printed through the CLI as⚠ Warning: …with the configured label.The corrected failure-mode wording was then measured on an EKS GB300 cluster rather than inferred, by removing the label from one of two GPU nodes:
DESIRED=2 READY=2DESIRED=1 READY=1nvidia.com/gpuallocatableThis confirms partial coverage does not produce
DESIRED=0— the earlier wording was wrong — and shows why the split state is hard to notice: the unlabeled node keeps advertising 4 allocatable GPUs through the device plugin and looks healthy. Restoring the label returned the cluster to2/2with 2 slices.One transient the docs now record: the unlabeled node's ResourceSlice persisted briefly before garbage collection, so for a short window a node advertises a DRA slice with no plugin behind it.
Risk Assessment
Rollout notes: Additive and non-blocking. Bundle generation still succeeds; operators see one extra warning line when both components are enabled. No rendered values change, so no migration is required.
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