test(e2e): checkpoint/restore tests for the framework guide workloads by oleg-kushniriov · Pull Request #175 · ai-dynamo/snapshot

oleg-kushniriov · 2026-09-02T09:16:00Z

Stacked on main. #176 (the CI wiring that runs these tests) is stacked on this PR.

Summary

Per-framework checkpoint/restore e2e for vLLM, SGLang, and TensorRT-LLM, plus the guide changes that running them required. The workloads are the guide programs and manifests under docs/guides/<framework>/, used as-is, so the guides stay regression-tested and there is one place to change a model or engine setting.

This PR holds everything under e2e/ and docs/guides/. The workflow, runner wiring, and helper scripts under .github/ and hack/ are in #176.

Test flow (`e2e/tests/test_frameworks.py`, one parametrized case per framework)

Create the <framework>-app ConfigMap from the guide's app.py; create the source pod from the guide deployment.yaml; wait_for_pod_ready. The guide's readiness probe is cat ready-for-snapshot, written only after a synchronous warm-up generation, so Ready means the engine served and is checkpointable.
PodSnapshot → Ready; content bound to the source node.
Delete the source; create the restore pod from the guide restore-deployment.yaml, pinned to the source node, nvidia.com/restore-from set to this run's PodSnapshot. Its entrypoint stays inert (SNAPSHOT_RESTORE_STANDBY=1).
nvidia.com/Restored=RestoreSucceeded → <framework>-restore-ready → POST /generate answers non-empty text.
The restore pod's log must not contain the pre-checkpoint line: a restore that degraded to a cold start must not pass.

On failure, debug_dump_framework prints pod logs, container states, control-dir listings, PodSnapshot/Content status, controller and agent logs, nvidia-smi and kernel trap lines from the source node, the rootfs diff, and the run's events. Every section is isolated so a diagnostic error cannot mask the real failure.

Guide changes

Stock upstream images, app.py from a ConfigMap. The guides no longer build a Snapshot image. deployment.yaml runs the pinned upstream framework image and mounts app.py at /snapshot-app from a <framework>-app ConfigMap; the guide pages document kubectl create configmap instead of docker build. The Dockerfiles are gone. The restore placeholder mounts the same ConfigMap.
SGLang pause mode. Pause with PauseGenerationReqInput(mode="retract") before release_memory_occupation(), which asserts is_fully_idle(). The default in-place mode freezes scheduler state, so a pause right after a generation never becomes idle.
Standby before import. The restore placeholder decides it is in standby before importing the framework, so it never loads a model.
Post-restore diagnostics. The restored process keeps the dead source container's stdout, so failures after restore were invisible. The programs now write <framework>-restore-error with the traceback and <framework>-restore-progress naming the current step.
vLLM sets VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn, required for restore.
TensorRT-LLM stays on the 1.3.0rc24 release candidate: the 1.2.1 GA image fails at import tensorrt (missing libnvonnxparser.so.10), and no 1.3 GA exists yet.

Harness (`e2e/snapshot_e2e/`)

frameworks.py: FrameworkSpec/FRAMEWORKS, phase budgets, SNAPSHOT_E2E_FRAMEWORK selection, image read from the guide manifest with SNAPSHOT_E2E_FRAMEWORK_IMAGE override, SharedModelCache from env.
framework_workloads.py: guide Deployment → Pod with minimal edits (name and labels, image, restartPolicy: Never, e2e scheduling, restore annotation and node affinity, ConfigMap build). Optional shared NFS model cache mounted at /models with HF_HOME and HF_HUB_OFFLINE=1, replacing the guide's download init container; needed on clusters where pods cannot resolve huggingface.co.
inference.py: request_generate, read_control_file.
lifecycle.py: ensure_pv/ensure_pvc, debug_dump_framework, host monitoring agent report.
tests/test_framework_manifests.py: cluster-free checks that pin the guides to the restore-pod contract (control volume, seccomp, /dev/net/tun, RuntimeClass and GPU, inert placeholder, ConfigMap mount and content, expected model, sentinel names matching app.py).

Verification

pytest e2e/tests/test_framework_manifests.py e2e/tests/test_workload_scripts.py: 38 passed.
GPU: all three frameworks pass end to end on the tree at the top of this stack, run 34030830624 via the workflow in ci(e2e): run framework checkpoint/restore tests on pull requests and nightly #176 (vLLM 7 min, SGLang 7 min, TensorRT-LLM 9 min). Earlier run history and the failures that drove the guide changes are in ci(e2e): run framework checkpoint/restore tests on pull requests and nightly #176.

Known issues (not fixed here)

vLLM restore has failed intermittently with a CRIU segfault at restore start (libc __add_to_environ), before restore.log is written. The failure dump captures the kernel trap line. Agent-side; tracked separately.
SGLang had post-restore hangs in resume_memory_occupation before the retract fix; the progress marker names the stuck call if it recurs.

Summary by CodeRabbit

New Features
- Added checkpoint and restore coverage for vLLM, SGLang, and TensorRT-LLM inference workloads.
- Added shared model-cache support, offline execution, image overrides, and restored inference on the original compute node.
Bug Fixes
- Improved restore readiness checks, failure reporting, and diagnostic details.
Documentation
- Updated framework guides to use upstream runtime images with mounted applications and restore deployments.
- Added guidance for framework setup, model caching, and troubleshooting checkpoint and restore workflows.

coderabbitai · 2026-09-02T09:16:07Z

Walkthrough

Adds framework-specific checkpoint and restore E2E coverage for vLLM, SGLang, and TensorRT-LLM. The change adds workload builders, guide runtime updates, inference helpers, lifecycle diagnostics, manifest tests, runtime tests, documentation, storage support, and cache handling.

Changes

Framework checkpoint and restore

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Framework configuration and workload construction `e2e/snapshot_e2e/frameworks.py`, `e2e/snapshot_e2e/framework_workloads.py`, `e2e/snapshot_e2e/k8s.py`, `e2e/snapshot_e2e/infra/setup.py`, `e2e/snapshot_e2e/manifests/*`	Defines supported frameworks, image selection, source and restore Pods, ConfigMaps, shared model-cache storage, scheduling, and vCluster support.
Guide runtime and restore contracts `docs/guides/vllm/`, `docs/guides/sglang/`, `docs/guides/tensorrt-llm/*`	Uses pinned upstream images and ConfigMap-mounted applications. Adds restore progress markers, error sentinels, SGLang retract handling, and framework-specific restore behavior.
Inference and lifecycle execution `e2e/snapshot_e2e/inference.py`, `e2e/snapshot_e2e/lifecycle.py`	Adds pod-local `/generate` requests, control-file parsing, restore polling, storage provisioning, condition formatting, and framework diagnostics.
Manifest and end-to-end validation `e2e/tests/test_framework_manifests.py`, `e2e/tests/test_frameworks.py`	Validates workload contracts and runs checkpoint, snapshot, deletion, restore, and post-restore inference flows for selected frameworks.
Test documentation and repository support `e2e/README.md`, `e2e/pyproject.toml`, `README.md`, `docs/guides/*`, `docs/operations/troubleshooting.md`, `docs/reference/cli.md`, `.gitignore`	Documents framework test usage, registers the pytest marker, updates guide prerequisites, and expands global Python cache ignores.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 15dec

The framework flows are mergeable, but users may encounter obsolete or unusable manifest instructions, and a sentinel regression could evade one manifest test.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant FrameworkTest
  participant SourcePod
  participant PodSnapshot
  participant RestorePod
  FrameworkTest->>SourcePod: Create source workload and request inference
  SourcePod-->>FrameworkTest: Return readiness and generated text
  FrameworkTest->>PodSnapshot: Create and validate checkpoint
  FrameworkTest->>SourcePod: Delete source workload
  FrameworkTest->>RestorePod: Create node-pinned restore workload
  PodSnapshot-->>RestorePod: Restore checkpoint state
  RestorePod-->>FrameworkTest: Report restore outcome and serve inference

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… fails The first vLLM restore attempt failed with "criu swrk failed: signal: segmentation fault" before CRIU wrote a restore.log, so the agent's own LogRestoreErrors had nothing to echo and the dump carried no clue where CRIU died. The kernel's trap line is the only record in that case. On failure the framework dump now also prints, from the agent on the source node, dmesg lines matching criu/segfault/traps and a listing of the checkpoint artifact directory with the tail of any restore.log/dump.log, and the workflow's diagnostics step saves each agent's dmesg tail to the uploaded artifact. Signed-off-by: Oleg Kushniriov <okushniriov@nvidia.com>

Switching from "abort" to the default "in_place" pause was not enough: the release still failed with "release_memory_occupation should be called only when server is idle". is_fully_idle() also requires last_batch to be empty, and in_place deliberately leaves scheduler state untouched, so pausing right after a generation freezes a stale last_batch and the engine can never become idle. "retract" drains the pending overlap result, clears last_batch and running_batch, and re-queues unfinished requests (none here) before pausing, which makes the release deterministic. Signed-off-by: Oleg Kushniriov <okushniriov@nvidia.com>

The restored process keeps the source container's stdout, and that container is gone, so anything the guide programs print after restore-complete is lost. In the first SGLang run the restore succeeded and the test then waited 300s for sglang-restore-ready with no way to see why it never appeared. Each program now wraps its post-restore path (resume, verification generation, API start) and writes the traceback to <framework>-restore-error next to the success sentinel before re-raising. The e2e waits for either sentinel (lifecycle.wait_for_restore_outcome) and fails immediately with the traceback when the error one appears, and the failure dump prints the restore pod's process list, listening TCP ports, and any error sentinel, since the container log cannot show the restored tree. Signed-off-by: Oleg Kushniriov <okushniriov@nvidia.com>

The SGLang restore now succeeds, but the restored program then blocks without writing either sentinel: its process tree is alive (scheduler running), so the failure is a hang, not an exception, and the error sentinel cannot capture it. Each program writes <framework>-restore-progress after every post-restore stage (memory resumed, generation continued/resumed, generated), so a hang names the call it is stuck in. The failure dump adds, per engine thread, its kernel wait channel and state, plus nvidia-smi from inside the pod, which distinguishes a stuck CUDA driver call from a futex or socket wait. Signed-off-by: Oleg Kushniriov <okushniriov@nvidia.com>

The rootfs diff is extracted into the placeholder's root while the placeholder, and then CRIU, run from it. On a restore failure the dump now prints the diff's entry count, any library or binary paths it contains, and its top-level directories, alongside the artifact listing. Signed-off-by: Oleg Kushniriov <okushniriov@nvidia.com>

A restore placeholder must stay a minimal, inert process: Snapshot restores the checkpointed tree alongside it. The vLLM and TensorRT-LLM programs imported the framework (torch, CUDA libraries, vLLM/TensorRT-LLM) at module top and only then checked SNAPSHOT_RESTORE_STANDBY, so every placeholder was a heavyweight process with the full framework mapped and its background threads running. Check standby first and sleep before any framework import, as the SGLang program already does by importing lazily. Besides being the right shape for a placeholder, this is the cheapest experiment for the intermittent vLLM restore failure, where the placeholder's PID 1 faults in libc just before CRIU starts. Signed-off-by: Oleg Kushniriov <okushniriov@nvidia.com>

- Wait for the framework image on pull-request/* mirror branches: the image workflow starts from the same push, so the tests polled the tag too early and failed with "not published" on every guide change. Nightly and dispatch keep the immediate check. - Gate PRs only on e2e/, docs/guides/, hack/ and the workflow itself: mirror branches have no operator/agent images, so a run there tests main's Snapshot and cannot validate an agent/operator/api/chart change. Those are covered nightly. The main-fallback notice also goes to the step summary. - Step and job timeouts now exceed the phase budgets they contain (40 min for the test step, 120 for the job including the image wait), so a slow run reaches the failure dump instead of being killed by GitHub. - ensure_pv fails loudly when an existing model-cache PV describes a different NFS export instead of silently mounting the old one. - The shared-cache defaults are documented as a fallback for the repository variables, and a step reports which is in use. - The post-restore error sentinel is written for Exception, not BaseException, so a clean SystemExit/KeyboardInterrupt is not recorded as a restore failure. - Drop the unused SNAPSHOT_E2E_HEAD_SHA override from the tag resolver. Signed-off-by: Oleg Kushniriov <okushniriov@nvidia.com>

The restored program keeps the dead source container's stdout, so when it hangs after restore (observed with SGLang inside resume_memory_occupation) nothing shows where it is blocked. The guide images now install py-spy, and the failure dump runs `py-spy dump` for every Python process in the restore pod alongside the wait-channel and nvidia-smi output. Signed-off-by: Oleg Kushniriov <okushniriov@nvidia.com>

pod_runtime_state's py-spy dump (the only way to see where a restored program is blocked, since its stdout belongs to the dead source container) failed with "Permission denied" on every framework: the restore containers had no explicit securityContext, so they ran without CAP_SYS_PTRACE, and py-spy cannot attach to sibling processes without it. Add capabilities.add: [SYS_PTRACE] to the main container in each restore-deployment.yaml. The pod-level seccomp profile already defaults to SCMP_ACT_ALLOW and only blocks io_uring, so ptrace(2) itself was never the problem -- just the missing capability. Signed-off-by: Oleg Kushniriov <okushniriov@nvidia.com>

debug_dump_framework's py-spy dump runs against every pod matching the test (source and restore), not just the restore pod. The previous commit only fixed restore-deployment.yaml; the source deployment.yaml manifests had the identical gap and would hit the same "Permission denied" if a test ever fails during the source/checkpoint phase. Signed-off-by: Oleg Kushniriov <okushniriov@nvidia.com>

sglang's post-restore reinit (resume_memory_occupation -> continue_generation -> generate_text -> serve_api) came within seconds of the shared 300s RESTORE_TIMEOUT_SECONDS budget in CI, flipping between pass and timeout across otherwise-identical runs. The py-spy/process-state dump on the timeout run showed the scheduler process actively running (not blocked), and CRIU's own restore completed cleanly beforehand -- consistent with genuinely slow GPU/KV-cache reinit, not a hang. Add a per-framework restore_timeout_seconds override to FrameworkSpec (defaulting to the existing shared constant) and set sglang's to 600s. Bump the CI step's timeout-minutes accordingly so it still exceeds the worst-case sum of phase budgets. Signed-off-by: Oleg Kushniriov <okushniriov@nvidia.com>

Signed-off-by: Oleg Kushniriov <okushniriov@nvidia.com>

…ad node Datadog's GPU monitoring attaches to GPU processes on the node and is a suspected interferer for CRIU/CUDA checkpoint and restore. The vcluster cannot see the host cluster's datadog namespace, but the snapshot agent is privileged with hostPID, so a process listing from inside it shows the node's Datadog/DCGM processes. Print it right after the source pod is scheduled (so successful runs record it too) and in the failure dump. Signed-off-by: Oleg Kushniriov <okushniriov@nvidia.com>

The wait loop for nvidia.com/Restored and the SnapshotJob dump printed the client's model objects, which repr as multi-line dicts with datetime objects and tzlocal(). Render conditions as status/reason/message plus a UTC timestamp instead. Signed-off-by: Oleg Kushniriov <okushniriov@nvidia.com>

debug_dump_framework guarded only the agent block; a pod deleted mid-dump or one apiserver error in pod listing, logs, custom objects, controller logs, or events would replace the original test failure with an unrelated traceback. Run every section, and each per-pod and per-agent probe, through the same never-raise wrapper so the caller's re-raise always surfaces the real failure and one broken section does not hide the others. The shell payloads sent to the agent pod are unchanged. Signed-off-by: Oleg Kushniriov <okushniriov@nvidia.com>

…ailure dump A task in the seized tree dying with SIGKILL mid-dump is either the OOM killer or a userspace killer, and the two need different investigations; the kernel-log grep only matched criu/segfault lines, so an OOM would never show. Match out-of-memory, killed-process, and memory-cgroup lines too. A failed checkpoint never leaves .tmp/, so its dump.log was never listed and the agent log carries only a truncated tail. Include .tmp/*/dump.log and print its Error/Warn lines ahead of the tail. Signed-off-by: Oleg Kushniriov <okushniriov@nvidia.com>

…2e-frameworks Addresses review findings on PR #176: - e2e job timeout-minutes (120) was smaller than the sum of its own step-level timeouts (188 min), so a slow run could be hard-killed before its own diagnostics-upload and vCluster-cleanup steps ran. - frameworks.py's restore-budget comment didn't account for wait_for_restored_condition and wait_for_restore_outcome both spending the full restore_timeout_seconds sequentially. - nightly/dispatch runs shared no concurrency group (each keyed by github.run_id), so overlapping runs could pile up GPU-heavy jobs on an already GPU-scarce shared cluster. - added a known-red pointer so failures matching the tracked vLLM/ sglang defects aren't re-diagnosed from scratch. Signed-off-by: Oleg Kushniriov <okushniriov@nvidia.com>

…ramework image The guide images (e2e-vllm, e2e-sglang, e2e-tensorrt-llm) required their own build/push/pull cycle on GHCR just to bake in one file (app.py) and, for vLLM previously, a glibc backport that's no longer needed. When those GHCR packages went private, every framework's e2e run started failing uniformly on image pull auth, before checkpoint/restore logic ever ran -- a fragility this removes at the root rather than patching around it. - docs/guides/{vllm,sglang,tensorrt-llm}/deployment.yaml: run the pinned upstream image unmodified, mount app.py from a <framework>-app ConfigMap at /snapshot-app, and override command to run it from there. restore-deployment.yaml only needed the image swap -- it stays inert via its existing command override, so it never touches app.py. - Delete docs/guides/*/Dockerfile.*: nothing left to build. - Drop SYS_PTRACE/py-spy from all six manifests: py-spy was only ever installed by the now-deleted Dockerfiles: a known, deliberate regression for this change, revisitable via an initContainer if the SGLang post-restore-hang diagnostics need it again. - e2e/snapshot_e2e/frameworks.py: framework_image() now reads the image straight from the guide's own deployment.yaml instead of resolving a content-hash tag against hack/framework-image-tag.py -- one source of truth, nothing of ours to keep published. - e2e/snapshot_e2e/framework_workloads.py, k8s.py: app_configmap() builds the ConfigMap from the same app.py the guide ships; k8s.apply_configmap() creates or replaces it idempotently. - e2e/tests/test_frameworks.py: creates the ConfigMap before deploying the source pod. - e2e/tests/test_framework_manifests.py: replaces the content-addressed-tag test with one asserting the image comes from the guide manifest; adds coverage for the ConfigMap mount, command override, and ConfigMap content. - .github/workflows/e2e-frameworks.yaml: removes the 'Resolve framework image' step (and its up-to-78-minute wait budget) entirely; recomputes the job timeout (200 -> 140 min) now that the 80-minute image-wait step is gone. - docs/guides/{vllm,sglang,tensorrt-llm}.md, e2e/README.md: rewritten Build sections -- no more docker build/push, a kubectl create configmap step instead. Known follow-up, not done here: .github/workflows/e2e-framework-images.yaml and hack/framework-image-tag.py (PR #173) are no longer exercised by this workflow and should be closed or removed separately. Signed-off-by: Oleg Kushniriov <okushniriov@nvidia.com>

Comments explaining the ConfigMap change against the previous build/push image approach belong in the commit message, not in the code/manifests themselves. Signed-off-by: Oleg Kushniriov <okushniriov@nvidia.com>

Restore failed on all three frameworks: 'Can't stat mountpoint .../snapshot-app: No such file or directory'. CRIU recreates every mount present in the source container's mount namespace, including the app ConfigMap mount added for the source Pod -- the restore placeholder needs the same mountpoint to exist, even though its own command never reads it. Signed-off-by: Oleg Kushniriov <okushniriov@nvidia.com>

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Ronkahn21 · 2026-09-07T12:01:28Z

+# A restore placeholder must stay a minimal, inert process: Snapshot restores
+# the checkpointed tree alongside it, and importing TensorRT-LLM here would map
+# the framework and CUDA libraries into the placeholder for nothing. Decide
+# before importing the framework.
+if os.environ.get("SNAPSHOT_RESTORE_STANDBY") == "1":
+    while True:
+        time.sleep(3600)
+


when restore we change the commad to sleep infinity

Ronkahn21 · 2026-09-07T12:05:43Z

+            # The restored process keeps the source container's stdout, which
+            # is gone; a failure here would otherwise be invisible. Record it
+            # in the control directory next to the success sentinel.
+            try:
+                progress = CONTROL_DIR.joinpath("trtllm-restore-progress")
+                text = generate_text(llm, ["Reply with one word: restored"])[0]
+                progress.write_text("generated\n", encoding="utf-8")
+                print(f"TensorRT-LLM restored output={text!r}", flush=True)
+                serve_api(llm, text)
+            except Exception:
+                CONTROL_DIR.joinpath("trtllm-restore-error").write_text(
+                    traceback.format_exc(),
+                    encoding="utf-8",
+                )
+                raise


why? this is not needed, the file approch is not something we want to encourage

Ronkahn21 · 2026-09-07T12:06:04Z

+            # The restored process keeps the source container's stdout, which
+            # is gone; a failure here would otherwise be invisible. Record it
+            # in the control directory next to the success sentinel.
+            try:
+                progress = CONTROL_DIR.joinpath("vllm-restore-progress")
+                await engine.wake_up()
+                progress.write_text("woken\n", encoding="utf-8")
+                await engine.resume_generation()
+                await engine.check_health()
+                progress.write_text("generation-resumed\n", encoding="utf-8")
+                text = await generate_text(
+                    engine,
+                    "Reply with one word: restored",
+                    "snapshot-restore-check",
+                )
+                progress.write_text("generated\n", encoding="utf-8")
+                print(f"vLLM restored output={text!r}", flush=True)
+                await serve_api(engine, text)
+            except Exception:
+                CONTROL_DIR.joinpath("vllm-restore-error").write_text(
+                    traceback.format_exc(),
+                    encoding="utf-8",


same for all

Ronkahn21 · 2026-09-07T12:06:55Z

+            # app.py calls AsyncLLM directly rather than vLLM's CLI wrapper,
+            # which sets this automatically when unset. Without it, worker
+            # startup defaults to fork (or switches to spawn only if vLLM
+            # detects CUDA already initialized), which is unreliable across
+            # checkpoint/restore.


this should be part of doc not here

Ronkahn21 · 2026-09-07T12:08:24Z

+`torch_memory_saver` -- unmodified, with one program mounted into it that
+prepares SGLang for checkpoint and resumes it after restore. There is no
+Snapshot-specific image to build or push: `deployment.yaml` pins the exact
+upstream image, and `app.py` is mounted from a ConfigMap. Select the model
+when deploying the source pod.


this entire guide need redo as it not build anymroe
lets not update iit like this
cc @ozbarshalom for viz

Ronkahn21 · 2026-09-07T12:39:25Z

            },
        },
    }
+    if os.environ.get("SNAPSHOT_E2E_MODEL_CACHE_SERVER"):


could just pass it as argement instead of using env var

Ronkahn21 · 2026-09-07T12:41:05Z

+    pv = {
+        "apiVersion": "v1",
+        "kind": "PersistentVolume",
+        "metadata": {"name": cache.pvc_name},
+        "spec": {
+            "capacity": {"storage": SHARED_CACHE_CAPACITY},
+            "accessModes": ["ReadWriteMany"],
+            "persistentVolumeReclaimPolicy": "Retain",
+            "storageClassName": "",
+            "mountOptions": list(SHARED_CACHE_MOUNT_OPTIONS),
+            "nfs": {"server": cache.server, "path": cache.path},
+        },
+    }
+    pvc = {
+        "apiVersion": "v1",
+        "kind": "PersistentVolumeClaim",
+        "metadata": {"name": cache.pvc_name, "namespace": config.namespace},
+        "spec": {
+            "accessModes": ["ReadWriteMany"],
+            "storageClassName": "",
+            "volumeName": cache.pvc_name,
+            "resources": {"requests": {"storage": SHARED_CACHE_CAPACITY}},
+        },
+    }


can we have just yaml file tampalte we load instad of using inline, it allow easier change without changeing the script

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-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2026 NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. All rights reserved.
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0


We would not like to change the current usage guide based on the E2E changes.
Using configmap instead of a custom image is another approach, which we could consider to document in addition to the existing one. please open a dedicated PR for that.

- apply_configmap: preserve resourceVersion before replace_namespaced_config_map, so re-running against a stale ConfigMap doesn't hit a second 409 - test_framework_checkpoint_restore_serves_inference: contain debug_dump_framework failures so a diagnostic exception can't replace the original checkpoint/restore failure - README: kubectl create configmap example targets SNAPSHOT_E2E_TEST_NAMESPACE

- remove the unreachable SNAPSHOT_RESTORE_STANDBY standby loop from all three guide app.py files: the restore placeholder's actual command is 'sleep infinity' (restore-deployment.yaml), so app.py is never invoked pre-restore and this branch never runs - move VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD out of the manifests and into app.py (os.environ.setdefault before importing vllm), so it is set once in code instead of duplicated across deployment.yaml and restore-deployment.yaml - create_vcluster takes an explicit model_cache: SharedModelCache | None parameter instead of reading SNAPSHOT_E2E_MODEL_CACHE_SERVER internally, matching the rest of infra/setup.py's parse-once-pass-down convention - shared_model_cache_volume loads the PV/PVC from checked-in YAML templates under e2e/snapshot_e2e/manifests/ instead of building them inline, so capacity/mountOptions can be edited without touching the script

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+  loaded, kernels warmed up). Following one of the [framework guides](README.md)
+  gets the running program there, but the pod spec itself must also carry what


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Use a Pod-shaped SnapshotJob example with the stock image.

The custom <registry>/vllm-snapshot:<tag> image and “build-and-deploy” wording are obsolete. SnapshotJob.spec.podTemplate accepts a PodTemplateSpec, not a Deployment manifest. Show the pinned stock vLLM image, command, resources, and vllm-app ConfigMap mount there. The controller injects the Snapshot control volume, readiness probe, and seccomp settings.

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+The manifest must be a `Pod` (not a Deployment or Job) set up as described in
+the [framework guides](../guides/README.md).


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Document a Pod manifest for the snapshotctl workflow.

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