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Summary

Adds GB200 (A4X) recipes on GKE — training, training-kubeflow, training-slurm, inference, and inference-dynamo — with NVLS-based NCCL bandwidth validation.

Motivation / Context

GB200 on GKE (A4X node pools) wasn't a supported recipe target. This adds the gke-gb200-rdma component (gIB NCCL plugin installer for GPUDirect-RDMA over RoCE) plus its health check, five COS overlay leaves, and wires GB200-on-GKE into the NVLS NCCL all-reduce-bw validator path (GB200's NVLink/IMEX topology, not TCPXO).

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Related: N/A

Type of Change

  • New feature (non-breaking change that adds functionality)
  • Documentation update

Component(s) Affected

  • Recipe engine / data (pkg/recipe)
  • Validator (validators/performance)
  • Docs/examples (docs/)
  • Other: recipes/ (registry, overlays, checks, component manifests, tuning/coverage goldens)

Implementation Notes

  • Five leaves, two shared bases: gb200-gke-cos-training is the base for -training-kubeflow and -training-slurm; gb200-gke-cos-inference is the base for -inference-dynamo. Both bases are themselves independently deployable leaves — the same base/platform-variant pattern already used for the EKS/OKE GB200 overlays.
  • NVLS, not TCPXO: GB200 uses NVLink SHARP (NVLS) + IMEX for the all-reduce fast path, so supportedNCCLCombinations maps GKE+GB200 to variantNVLS, and GPU↔NIC (TCPXO gpu-nic-*) discovery is skipped specifically for the GKE+GB200 pair — it uses the gke-gb200-rdma Network CRs instead. Other GKE accelerators (a100/b200/h100) are unaffected.
  • runtime-nvls.yaml: new Kubeflow TrainingRuntime template for GKE GB200 with IMEX resourceClaims and NVLS-specific env vars, required for the all-reduce job to exercise NVLS instead of falling back/erroring.
  • Networking is a cluster prerequisite, not something this PR provisions: the two-VPC topology (one gVNIC, one RDMA VPC with 4 subnets) and its 5 Network/GKENetworkParamSet objects (gvnic-1, rdma-0..rdma-3) must exist before the node pool does; the gke-gb200-rdma health check validates deviceMode/parametersRef linkage on all 5, it doesn't create them. Documented in the new docs/integrator/gke-gb200-networking.md.
  • Slinky-slurm needs no toleration workaround: unlike the Kubeflow Trainer/JobSet controllers (already handled on main), Slinky's controller/restapi/nodeset Deployments already go through AICR's ordinary nodeScheduling.tolerationPaths.
  • Slurm leaf has no performance phase, by design: gb200-gke-cos-training-slurm sets performance: { checks: [], constraints: [] } — the K8s-scheduled NCCL check would bypass slurmd entirely on a Slinky-managed cluster. Slurm-specific health is covered by conformance checks instead (mirrors gb200-eks-ubuntu-training-slurm).
  • K8s 1.34+ floor: all GB200-on-GKE leaves require K8s.server.version >= 1.34 (DRA GA), inherited through gb200-gke-cos-training/gb200-gke-cos-inference.
  • StorageClass note: a4x-highgpu-4g nodes reject standard-rwo's default pd-balanced disks; docs point operators at a hyperdisk-balanced-backed StorageClass instead. docs/integrator/gke-gpu-setup.md and docs/user/validation.md cross-reference this.
  • Golden/parity fixtures (catalog_parity_golden.yaml, coverage_golden.yaml, stock_render_golden.yaml) and generated docs (container-images.md, recipe-health.md) regenerated to reflect the new GB200/GKE coverage surface.

Testing

make qualify

make qualify passes in full (test-coverage, lint, tuning-check, e2e, scan, license-check, api-diff, openapi-diff).

Live-hardware evidence for these 5 leaves is pending re-validation: the qualification runs performed earlier against a real A4X cluster were invalidated by subsequent validator/component changes, and that cluster plus its capacity leases have since been torn down. No recipes/evidence/gb200-gke-* pointers are committed yet — the recipe-evidence-check bot will (correctly, per ADR-007) flag all 5 leaves as warning-only "no evidence yet." Evidence will be added in a follow-up once fresh hardware access is available.

Risk Assessment

  • Low — Additive-only: new component, new overlays, and one narrowly-scoped conditional in the NCCL validator (accelerator != GB200 guard) that doesn't change behavior for existing GKE accelerators or other services.

Rollout notes: N/A — new recipe leaves, no migration required.

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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Recipe evidence check

Registry change: scoped to recipes that reference a changed component
entry in recipes/registry.yaml (not every leaf).

Other affected recipes without evidence yet: 5

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.

  • gb200-gke-cos-inference-dynamo
  • gb200-gke-cos-inference
  • gb200-gke-cos-training-kubeflow
  • gb200-gke-cos-training-slurm
  • gb200-gke-cos-training

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Request changes: five verified merge blockers in the GKE A4X network model and ownership, health validation, supply-chain pinning, and scheduling scope. CI is green on this head but does not cover these failure directions. One additional documentation mismatch is inline. The branch being behind main is mechanical and separate.

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Adds GB200 GKE COS inference and training recipes with RDMA/RoCE networking, ARM64 NCCL gIB installation, GPU Operator configuration, and workload-specific overlays. Adds NCCL NVLS support with bounded cleanup handling. Adds health checks, rendering tests, recipe coverage, golden fixtures, and documentation for networking, drivers, storage, benchmarking, and deployment validation.

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This change adds GB200 GKE recipes, RDMA setup, and NVLS validation support. Some documentation, runtime-dependency, fixture-safety, and regression-coverage concerns remain, but the identified impact is bounded and should be addressed with owner awareness.

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In `@validators/performance/trainer_lifecycle_test.go`:
- Around line 105-156: Refactor TestApplyControllerTolerations into a
table-driven test covering the existing Deployment and non-Deployment cases. Add
cases with missing spec.template.spec and malformed tolerations, asserting
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docs/README.md (1)

49-49: LGTM!

docs/contributor/validator.md (1)

807-807: LGTM!

docs/index.yml (1)

78-79: LGTM!

docs/integrator/gke-gb200-networking.md (2)

17-20: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration

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Verify the documented DaemonSet name.

This page names the bundled resource nccl-rdma-installer, but the component context identifies the manifest as nccl-gib-installer-arm64.yaml. Verify metadata.name in the manifest. If it differs, update both references so operators can identify the deployed resource by the documented name.

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1-16: LGTM!

Also applies to: 21-73, 76-94, 98-281

docs/integrator/gke-gpu-setup.md (1)

215-222: LGTM!

Also applies to: 441-441

docs/integrator/index.md (1)

25-25: LGTM!

docs/user/validation.md (1)

52-54: LGTM!

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docs/user/recipe-health.md (1)

43-44: LGTM!

Also applies to: 80-85, 91-91

recipes/components/gke-gb200-rdma/manifests/nccl-gib-installer-arm64.yaml (1)

66-69: LGTM!

Also applies to: 92-92

recipes/registry.yaml (1)

187-206: LGTM!

recipes/checks/gke-gb200-rdma/health-check.yaml (1)

28-143: LGTM!

pkg/chainsaw/gke_gb200_rdma_check_states_test.go (1)

33-168: LGTM!

docs/user/container-images.md (1)

22-23: LGTM!

Also applies to: 43-43, 138-142

pkg/recipe/testdata/coverage_golden.yaml (1)

1042-1097: LGTM!

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pkg/bundler/testdata/stock_render_golden.yaml (1)

19-21: LGTM!

recipes/overlays/gb200-gke-cos-training-slurm.yaml (1)

108-144: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration

No change needed. resourceClaimTemplateName: slinky-slurm-imex-channels matches the ComputeDomain manifest and the EKS GB200 Slurm leaf.

recipes/overlays/gb200-gke-cos-inference.yaml (1)

21-99: LGTM!

recipes/overlays/gb200-gke-cos-training.yaml (1)

20-113: LGTM!

recipes/overlays/gb200-gke-cos-inference-dynamo.yaml (1)

15-99: LGTM!

pkg/recipe/metadata_test.go (1)

2310-2311: LGTM!

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pkg/recipe/testdata/catalog_parity_golden.yaml (1)

19-21: LGTM!

docs/integrator/components/nodewright.md (1)

89-89: LGTM!

pkg/tuning/compute_test.go (1)

51-51: LGTM!

pkg/defaults/timeouts.go (1)

670-670: LGTM!

recipes/evidence/allowlist.yaml (1)

84-85: LGTM!

pkg/recipe/nccl_bandwidth_floor_test.go (1)

136-148: LGTM!

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validators/performance/testdata/gb200/gke/runtime-nvls.yaml (1)

19-25: 🩺 Stability & Availability

No IMEX setup change is needed. The GB200 GKE recipe selects nccl-all-reduce-bw-nvls without nccl-benchmark-runtime; the validator loads validators/performance/testdata/gb200/gke/runtime-nvls.yaml and creates the IMEX ComputeDomain before the TrainJob.

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In `@docs/integrator/gke-gb200-networking.md`:
- Around line 95-97: Update the networking documentation sentence to describe
a4x-highgpu-4g recipes generated with the gpuStack=driver-installer option,
rather than pools built with that option. Keep gpu-driver-version=disabled
stated separately as the node-pool prerequisite.

In `@recipes/components/gke-gb200-rdma/manifests/nccl-gib-installer-arm64.yaml`:
- Around line 87-90: Remove the unused nvidia-dir volume declaration from the
pod manifest; no container mounts it, so do not retain its hostPath
precondition. If the volume is intentionally required by the upstream vendored
configuration, keep it and add a comment documenting that rationale.

In `@recipes/gke_gb200_rdma_test.go`:
- Around line 56-76: Consolidate
TestGB200RDMAInstallerAcceleratedNodeSelectorScopesRender and
TestGB200RDMAInstallerNoAcceleratedNodeSelectorOmitsField into one table-driven
test covering present and absent acceleratedNodeSelector values. Define per-case
values and expected selector state, render through renderGB200RDMAInstaller, and
retain assertions for both the rendered selector contents and omission when
unset.
- Around line 45-48: Update the pod-spec lookup before the final assertion to
validate each nested map conversion for doc["spec"], its "template", and the
template's "spec"; on any missing or incorrectly typed level, call t.Fatalf with
the rendered manifest and avoid chained type assertions that can panic. Preserve
the existing successful extraction into spec.

In `@recipes/overlays/gb200-gke-cos-training-kubeflow.yaml`:
- Around line 38-47: The kubeflow-trainer component reference currently includes
only the generic distributed training runtime, so add the GB200 NVLS-specific
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In `@docs/integrator/gke-gb200-networking.md`:
- Around line 89-90: Update the networking documentation around the expected
Network names to separate the default Network from the five prerequisite custom
Networks; state the spec.parametersRef binding requirement only for gvnic-1 and
rdma-0 through rdma-3, and describe default independently.
- Around line 76-80: Update the prerequisite networking documentation near the
AICR and GKE version-floor guidance to explicitly state that AICR GB200 recipes
require Kubernetes server version 1.34 or later, including the inherited
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- Around line 490-498: Register the namespace cleanup defer immediately after
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Request changes: 1 MAJOR against 48bbb7b. All 84 exact-head checks are successful, skipped, or neutral; targeted lifecycle and render validations also passed but do not exercise asynchronous namespace finalization.

slog.Debug("RoCE ResourceClaimTemplate not present (non-RoCE variant), skipping", "name", ncclRoceClaimName)
default:
slog.Warn("failed to delete RoCE ResourceClaimTemplate", "error", err, "name", ncclRoceClaimName)
err := clientset.CoreV1().Namespaces().Delete(cleanupCtx, namespace, metav1.DeleteOptions{})

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MAJOR — Wait for namespace termination before reporting cleanup success. Namespaces().Delete only starts asynchronous deletion; Kubernetes can leave this namespace Terminating while child finalizers run (pinned Kubernetes docs). This function immediately logs Deleted and returns nil, so a successful benchmark can report clean teardown while its ComputeDomain, ResourceClaimTemplate, and namespace remain. The existing five-minute wait when a later run encounters a terminating namespace confirms this state is expected, but it is too late to fail the run that leaked the resources.

Minimum correction: after issuing the delete, wait boundedly for the namespace to disappear and return a cleanup error on timeout; add a finalizer-held/terminating namespace regression case.

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Done — cleanupNCCLResources (validators/performance/nccl_all_reduce_bw_constraint.go)
now returns the waitForNamespaceGone error instead of logging a warning and
returning nil on timeout, so a namespace stuck on a finalizer fails the
check instead of reporting a clean "Deleted" while a ComputeDomain or RoCE
ResourceClaimTemplate leaks behind it.

Made the wait bound an explicit terminationWait parameter (production
still passes defaults.InferenceNamespaceTerminationWait; tests inject a
short duration) and added a regression test,
TestCleanupNCCLResources_ReturnsErrorOnTerminationTimeout
(nccl_roce_apply_test.go), that holds the namespace with a
finalizer/DeletionTimestamp reactor and asserts an ErrCodeTimeout-wrapped
cleanup failure.

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- Line 816: Update the AICR_INFERENCE_PERF_MODEL_CACHE_STORAGE_CLASS guidance
and its corresponding GKE Storage Prerequisites documentation to instruct users
to inspect the cluster’s actual default StorageClass and disk type before
choosing the model-cache class, rather than assuming standard-rwo on all GKE
Standard clusters. Preserve the requirement that A4X/GB200 nodes use a
Hyperdisk-backed class because pd-balanced cannot attach to a4x-highgpu-4g, and
apply the consistent wording in both documents.

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- Around line 157-180: Add Kubeflow and Slurm cases to
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Add the gb200-gke-cos-{training,training-kubeflow,training-slurm,
inference,inference-dynamo} recipe leaves, covering GB200 (A4X) on
GKE with COS. New gke-gb200-rdma component wires the NCCL gIB ARM64
plugin installer needed for GPUDirect-RDMA over RoCE, plus its
health check and BOM/tuning docs. The GKE multi-networking objects
(GKENetworkParamSet/Network: gvnic-1, rdma-0..rdma-3) are provisioned
with the cluster before the node pool exists, not by this component:
AICR treats them as a prerequisite and validates all 5 objects,
including deviceMode and parametersRef linkage, via health check.

GB200 on GKE is NVLS-only: MNNVL across the A4X nodes' IMEX domain is
the fabric that actually carries all-reduce traffic, so
nccl-all-reduce-bw-nvls (not the plain check) is wired into the
training leaves' performance phase, backed by a new runtime-nvls.yaml
TrainingRuntime template with IMEX ComputeDomain wiring. GPU NIC
discovery in the NCCL validator is skipped for this accelerator/service
pair since it uses the gke-gb200-rdma Network CRs instead of the TCPXO
gpu-nic-* fabric.

GB200 already has a Kubeflow leaf overlay on EKS and OKE; adds the
same kubeflow-trainer component here so GKE isn't the only GB200
platform missing one, giving robust-controller conformance a
supported operator to validate instead of always skipping.

Also adds a gb200-gke-cos-inference-dynamo leaf (grove + dynamo-platform,
DRA-gated to Kubernetes 1.34+), mirroring the GB200 EKS/OKE Dynamo
overlays' performance-gate thresholds until a GKE-specific baseline is
published. This turns the bare gb200-gke-cos-inference overlay from a
leaf into a base shared by both the plain and Dynamo inference leaves,
the same base/platform-variant pattern already used above for
training/training-kubeflow.

And a gb200-gke-cos-training-slurm leaf (Slinky operator + a
Slinky-managed Slurm cluster), mirroring gb200-eks-ubuntu-training-slurm's
GPU GRES, task isolation, and NVLS/IMEX ComputeDomain wiring for the same
4-GPU-per-node accelerator shape. Unlike the Kubeflow Trainer/JobSet
controllers above, Slinky's controller/restapi/nodeset Deployments already
go through AICR's ordinary nodeScheduling tolerationPaths, so this leaf
needs no Trainer-style toleration workaround.

Floor calibrated on a4x-highgpu-4g (4x GB200/node): 2-node/8-GPU
all_reduce_perf measured 281.936 GB/s avg bus bandwidth, and
gb200-gke-cos-inference-dynamo measured 103,971 tokens/sec throughput /
1388.55ms TTFT p99. Both runs, plus deployment and conformance for all
5 leaves (including the GB200-specific slinky-slurm-imex-channel health
check), were exercised on a live A4X cluster; gb200-gke-cos-training-slurm
has no NVLS performance phase by design, since the K8s-scheduled check
would bypass slurmd.

That cluster and its capacity leases have since been deleted, and
validators/performance/nccl_all_reduce_bw_constraint.go changed after
those runs, so no recipes/evidence/gb200-gke-* pointer is committed here;
live-hardware evidence is pending re-validation.

Signed-off-by: Mike Cook <micook@nvidia.com>
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