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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAdded ADR-024 for optional, registry-only NVCRE adoption through explicit Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The ADR does not change deployed components today, but several requirements needed for a safe future NVCRE integration remain ambiguous or incomplete. Clarifying resource lifecycle, timeout cleanup, GPU prerequisites, safety controls, placement, and validator scope is recommended before merge. Suggested reviewers: 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4✅ Passed checks (4 passed)
Full details: Title checkExplanation The title clearly identifies the main change: proposing an ADR for the NVIDIA Cluster Readiness Engine component. However, it says ADR-025 while the changed file and PR objectives identify the proposal as ADR-024. Full details: Description checkExplanation The description directly explains the NVCRE ADR proposal, its registry-only scope, documented decisions, verification, risks, and lack of implementation changes. It also uses ADR-025 instead of ADR-024, but it remains related to the changeset. ✨ Finishing Touches🧪 Generate unit tests (beta)
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In `@docs/design/024-nvcre-cluster-certification.md`:
- Around line 107-108: Update the Deployment readiness requirement around
readyReplicas to require a positive desired replica count and full readiness,
with readyReplicas equal to spec.replicas or the repository’s equivalent
availability condition; if v0.1.0 intentionally guarantees one replica,
explicitly document that invariant.
- Line 177: Update the Helm chart certification requirement in the upstream
release flow so the signature, SBOM, and provenance attestations bind to the
exact qualified chart digest and identify the trusted signer or builder and
source release.
- Around line 75-77: Update the NVCRE registry entry and every opt-in recipe to
declare deployment dependencies through ComponentRef.DependencyRefs, using
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metrics.serviceMonitor.enabled to false, document that fixed setting and omit
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ComponentRef.dependencyRefsfor the ordering requirement.The ADR identifies the registry entry as the enforcement point. AICR’s recipe contract models deployment edges on
componentRefs[].dependencyRefs. State that every resolved opt-in recipe must placekubeflow-trainerandprometheus-operator-crdsbeforenvcre, or disablemetrics.serviceMonitor.enabled. The registry entry alone must not be treated as an ordering guarantee. (github.com)🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@docs/design/024-nvcre-cluster-certification.md`:
- Around line 107-108: Update the readiness requirement to require a positive
desired replica count and readyReplicas equal to spec.replicas, or use the
repository’s equivalent full-availability condition; do not accept readiness
based only on readyReplicas > 0 or unavailableReplicas == 0. If v0.1.0
intentionally guarantees a single replica, explicitly document that invariant in
the readiness requirement.
- Around line 120-122: Update the certification requirement describing
signature, SBOM, and build provenance so chart attestations are bound to the
chart’s exact qualified digest, in addition to the image digest. Require chart
verification to identify a trusted signer or builder and the chart’s source
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- Around line 15-19: Update the ADR statements describing the nvcre registry
entry, values, and health check to describe them as planned future requirements
rather than implemented features. State that nvcre remains unavailable until the
separate follow-up implementation lands, while preserving the documented opt-in
and unchanged-stock-recipe behavior.
- Around line 113-114: Add the NVIDIA GPU Operator as a prerequisite in the
certification criteria near “Implementation is admitted,” and require an
equivalent GPU readiness gate or runtime invariant before the first
certification workload runs. Ensure the documented checks establish GPU
readiness, not merely manager, CRD, and LogProfile availability.
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In `@docs/design/024-nvcre-cluster-certification.md`:
- Around line 73-83: Update the ADR’s ordering requirement to use
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sufficient. Require every resolved opt-in recipe to order kubeflow-trainer and
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| AICR admits `nvcre` as an optional, opt-in Helm component. The first | ||
| implementation is **registry-only**: the entry exists, but no stock recipe | ||
| references it, and custom or external recipes must declare a `ComponentRef` | ||
| explicitly. Recipes that do not declare it — including every stock recipe — | ||
| are unchanged and acquire none of its CRDs, RBAC, or runtime cost. |
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Describe the registry entry as planned, not present.
Line [16] says that the entry exists, and Line [50] says that the implementation adds the registry entry, values, and health check. This PR adds only ADR-024, while Line [9] says implementation follows acceptance separately. Rewrite these statements as future requirements and state that nvcre is unavailable until the follow-up implementation lands.
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In `@docs/design/024-nvcre-cluster-certification.md` around lines 15 - 19, Update
the ADR statements describing the nvcre registry entry, values, and health check
to describe them as planned future requirements rather than implemented
features. State that nvcre remains unavailable until the separate follow-up
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| Implementation is admitted once the selected release passes the following. | ||
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The NVIDIA Cluster Readiness Engine (NVCRE) is a distinct tool from the NVIDIA GPU Operator, though they are often used in the same ecosystem [1][2]. According to the official NVIDIA documentation, the prerequisites for installing the NVIDIA Cluster Readiness Engine (NVCRE) include [1]: - A Kubernetes 1.28+ cluster with GPU nodes [1]. - kubectl configured and pointing to the target cluster [1]. - The NVIDIA GPU Operator already installed in the cluster [1]. - Helm 3.x [1]. The NVIDIA GPU Operator itself has its own set of prerequisites, which generally include [3][4]: - kubectl and Helm CLIs available on the client machine [3][4]. - Kubernetes worker nodes (or node groups) must run the same operating system version if using the NVIDIA GPU Driver container (alternatively, if drivers are pre-installed, different operating systems may be used) [3][4]. - Nodes must be configured with a supported container engine, such as containerd or CRI-O [3][4]. - If Pod Security Admission (PSA) is enabled, the operator namespace must be labeled with an enforcement policy of privileged [3][4]. - Node Feature Discovery (NFD) is a dependency (automatically deployed by the operator, though it should be disabled if already present in the cluster) [3][4]. NVCRE functions as a Kubernetes controller that certifies GPU clusters to ensure they are ready for production workloads by running training and communication tests [5].
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- 1: https://docs.nvidia.com/cluster-readiness-engine/getting-started/install
- 2: https://docs.nvidia.com/cluster-readiness-engine/cli-reference/overview
- 3: https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/cloud-native/gpu-operator/24.9.0/getting-started.html
- 4: https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/cloud-native/gpu-operator/24.6.2/getting-started.html
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Document the NVIDIA GPU Operator prerequisite.
NVCRE requires the NVIDIA GPU Operator. An opt-in recipe can satisfy the current manager, CRD, and LogProfile checks without proving GPU readiness, so its first certification workload may fail. Add the prerequisite and a readiness gate, or document an equivalent GPU runtime invariant.
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In `@docs/design/024-nvcre-cluster-certification.md` around lines 113 - 114, Add
the NVIDIA GPU Operator as a prerequisite in the certification criteria near
“Implementation is admitted,” and require an equivalent GPU readiness gate or
runtime invariant before the first certification workload runs. Ensure the
documented checks establish GPU readiness, not merely manager, CRD, and
LogProfile availability.
Source: MCP tools
Take Jayson's health check, fullnameOverride, hasSelfRefCRDs, and placement notes from #2523. Default ServiceMonitor off so install does not require prometheus-operator CRDs. Catalog uses --set-json for manager.affinity. Pin tests now walk overlays/mixins so nvcre stays opt-in. ADR remains #2541; this PR does not add one. Signed-off-by: Rohit Rajani <rorajani@nvidia.com>
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103-106: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winDo not claim that tolerations narrow placement.
Tolerations allow scheduling onto matching tainted nodes. They do not select nodes or require system placement. With no
nodeSelectorand a blanketoperator: Existstoleration, the manager can still schedule on GPU or general nodes. Rewrite this as a placement limitation and requiremanager.affinityor a node selector when system-node placement is required. (kubernetes.io)🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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193-193: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winDocument the GHCR credential requirement for the Helm chart. An unauthenticated request for the pinned chart digest returns
401 Unauthorizedwithauthentication required. Remove the claim of anonymous chart pulls and state that operators must authenticate to GHCR. Scope “No credential dependency by default” to the controller and health-check path.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@docs/design/024-nvcre-cluster-certification.md`:
- Around line 119-123: Add GPU runtime readiness to the admission gate alongside
the existing controller, CRD, and LogProfile checks. Require the GPU
Operator/device-plugin readiness used by NVCRE setup status, including optional
DCGM when configured, before certification proceeds; otherwise document an
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In `@docs/design/024-nvcre-cluster-certification.md`:
- Around line 103-106: Revise the placement statement in the NVCRE cluster
certification documentation to explain that the blanket toleration permits
scheduling on tainted GPU or general nodes rather than narrowing placement.
State that system-node placement requires manager.affinity or an appropriate
node selector, while preserving GPU placement for NVCRE benchmarks.
- Line 193: Update the documentation around the “pull for both chart and image”
statement to require operators to authenticate to GHCR for the pinned Helm chart
digest, remove any claim that the chart supports anonymous pulls, and scope “No
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| Readiness asserts both `readyReplicas > 0` and `readyReplicas == replicas`, so | ||
| a partially rolled-out Deployment does not pass. The first conjunct is what | ||
| fails closed: `readyReplicas` is `omitempty` and therefore absent on a | ||
| Deployment that has never had a ready pod, where `unavailableReplicas == 0` | ||
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Add GPU runtime readiness to the admission gate.
The health check proves controller, CRD, and LogProfile readiness. It does not prove that the GPU Operator or GPU runtime is ready. The first certification can therefore fail after admission when it creates GPU workloads. Require GPU Operator/device-plugin readiness, or document an equivalent GPU runtime invariant. NVCRE's current setup status checks gpuOperator and optional dcgm, and its certification flow targets GPU nodes. (docs.nvidia.com)
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GPU runtime readiness to the admission gate alongside the existing controller,
CRD, and LogProfile checks. Require the GPU Operator/device-plugin readiness
used by NVCRE setup status, including optional DCGM when configured, before
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Take Jayson's health check, fullnameOverride, hasSelfRefCRDs, and placement notes from #2523. Default ServiceMonitor off so install does not require prometheus-operator CRDs. Catalog uses --set-json for manager.affinity. Pin tests now walk overlays/mixins so nvcre stays opt-in. ADR remains #2541; this PR does not add one. Signed-off-by: Rohit Rajani <rorajani@nvidia.com>
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@xdu31 two points I would like your take on before we treat this as the merge gate for the Helm PRs. The rest of the ADR (registry-only, no stock overlay, ownership split, ServiceMonitor off, no nodeSelector) looks right to me.
- Registry-only vs ADR-019 supply-chain close: should v0.1.0 be allowed as an opt-in pin while image provenance and chart signatures stay follow-ups, or do you want #2523/#2524 blocked until CRE’s release workflow lands those?
- Non-goal on an AICR validator that drives NVCRE: that reads as forbidding #2519. I would keep “no stock overlay flip / no ADR-007 evidence” and drop the validator ban.
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WRT the supply-chain issues we've identified in v0.1.0, that will no longer be the issue in upcoming (Mon) v0.2.0 release. The PRs implementing SLSA and attestations as part of CRE release have already landed, so this is a non-blocker for the ADR here. |
We should be using the Certification resource and not the WorkloadRun which is intended for more advanced use cases and not necessarily for certification. The AICR CLI will just have to create a certification resource, wait for some timeout and then delete it either on success or failure |
Take Jayson's health check, fullnameOverride, hasSelfRefCRDs, and placement notes from #2523. Default ServiceMonitor off so install does not require prometheus-operator CRDs. Catalog uses --set-json for manager.affinity. Pin tests now walk overlays/mixins so nvcre stays opt-in. ADR remains #2541; this PR does not add one. Signed-off-by: Rohit Rajani <rorajani@nvidia.com>
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In `@docs/design/024-nvcre-cluster-certification.md`:
- Around line 167-168: Replace the vague ownership statement in the
cluster-scoped LogProfile requirements with an explicit lifecycle contract for
all four resources: define Helm release ownership, behavior for pre-existing
resources and upgrades, and whether uninstall deletes or preserves them,
including the expected handling of collisions between opt-in releases.
- Around line 112-115: The documentation incorrectly presents
manager.tolerations as placement isolation. Update the discussion of
manager.tolerations to describe only taint compatibility, and require explicit
manager.affinity for system/GPU isolation or clearly state that the registry
entry does not enforce placement isolation.
- Around line 173-178: Update the Certification lifecycle and timeout
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deadline-expiration behavior, including bounded waiting and timeout propagation.
Specify when Certification is deleted and ensure all controller-created TrainJob
resources are terminated and cleaned up for each terminal outcome, including
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Review of the ADR's design soundness against the pinned upstream source (NVIDIA/cluster-readiness-engine at 65f19788) and AICR main. The chart and API facts the ADR relies on all check out: no nodeSelector in the manager Deployment template, blanket tolerations: [{operator: Exists}], serviceMonitor.enabled: true by default, seven CRDs plus four unconditional cluster-scoped LogProfiles including nccl-bandwidth, and NodesPerJob with Minimum=1 and no maximum. Decision 3 also matches the code and the nvsentinel precedent.
Four issues below need resolving before this lands. Three are substantive: two of them undercut the ADR's own argument that the execution-safety gaps are non-blocking, and the third is a gap in the gate set. The fourth is a numbering collision.
Separately and non-blocking: some gates bind at the registry-only implementation rather than at stock adoption (hasSelfRefCRDs, BOM/mirror coverage, the non-vacuous health check), Decision 4 leaves the blanket toleration in force whenever the bundle caller passes no --system-toleration, and the ordering attribution reads as helmfile-only when Flux and Argo CD derive ordering from the same dependencyRefs.
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Review — multi-persona + adversarial meta-review
Method: 3 independent persona reviewers (Domain & Architecture · Technical-accuracy · Supply-chain/Security), each verifying claims against the AICR codebase, then one adversarial senior meta-reviewer re-deriving every finding from the resolved code. Pinned to c551cb54.
Legend: 🔴 Blocker · 🟠 Major · 🟡 Minor · 🔵 Nitpick
Assessment
Unusually rigorous, self-disclosing ADR. Every verifiable mechanical claim about AICR's architecture checks out against the code — ComponentRef.DependencyRefs + the helmfile DAG-stratified layout, hasSelfRefCRDs scope and #914, nodeScheduling.system.tolerationPaths, the platform-kubeflow mixin, and the ADR-019/007 references and registry-admission precedent. All internal anchors resolve; counts, digests, and version pins are internally consistent.
The persona panel raised two Major supply-chain findings; the meta-reviewer refuted both — each rested on a true observation with a conclusion the ADR's own reasoning already defuses (chart-by-version pinning is AICR-universal and the chart's unsigned state is disclosed as open Gate 2; the Security-gate omission is defused by all gates being explicitly scoped to the stock-adoption amendment, not registry-only admission). Nothing load-bearing survived.
Confirmed non-issues (examined, cleared)
- Chart pulled by
--version, not digest — AICR-universal (everyregistry.yamlcomponent pins bydefaultVersion); ADR scopes its digest-pin claim to the image only; chart's unsigned state disclosed as Gate 2. - Decision 6 is caller discipline — correct for an admission ADR; validator impl deferred to #2519; risk disclosed in Consequences.
- LogProfile collision mode not named concretely — gate already flags the risk axes; the specific Helm error is qualification-time detail.
readyReplicasrationale — the fail-closed checkreadyReplicas > 0 AND readyReplicas == replicasis correct in every state.
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🔵 Nitpick (optional, non-blocking). The "Verified:" paragraph plus "Four gates are unmet" reads as a complete ledger, but the Security gate category (RBAC minimality, non-root / read-only-rootfs / caps-dropped) — and parts of Chart/CRD-lifecycle and AICR-qualification — are neither in the verified list nor among the four listed gaps. This is harmless because all gates are explicitly scoped to the stock-adoption amendment (line 168), not registry-only admission, and the entry is inert until an overlay references it — so unassessed ≠ passed. A single clarifying line (e.g. "remaining gate categories, including Security, are adjudicated at amendment time") would remove any "everything else verified" ambiguity.
Take Jayson's health check, fullnameOverride, hasSelfRefCRDs, and placement notes from #2523. Default ServiceMonitor off so install does not require prometheus-operator CRDs. Catalog uses --set-json for manager.affinity. Pin tests now walk overlays/mixins so nvcre stays opt-in. ADR remains #2541; this PR does not add one. Signed-off-by: Rohit Rajani <rorajani@nvidia.com>
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Approving. All four items from my earlier review are addressed at 4dada9f, and I have resolved those threads.
Decision 6 now caps the footprint with target.nodeNames and states plainly that nodesPerJob sizes each group rather than the run; it is framed against the API rather than nvcrectl; and it requires the caller to confirm directly that the run's TrainJobs and GPU pods are gone within a bounded wait, reporting cleanup failure rather than a warning. The new runtime-closure gate covers the embedded catalog's images and fetched source, scoped to supported Certification paths, with the right reachability framing. The rewrite is more precise than what I asked for.
One thing to fix before merge, on the ADR number: the document is now ADR-025, but this PR's title and body still say ADR-024. The repo squashes with squash_merge_commit_title: PR_TITLE and squash_merge_commit_message: BLANK, so the title becomes the commit message on main verbatim and cannot be edited afterward — merging as-is lands "propose ADR-024" against a file named 025-nvcre-cluster-certification.md. Updating the title and the body's opening line clears it.
One non-blocking correction for whenever the file is next touched: execution.maxConcurrent names the Workflow path. ExecutionSpec belongs to Workflow; on Certification the field comes from CategoryOptions, embedded inline in CertificationSpec, so a caller sets spec.maxConcurrent (or spec.categories[].options.maxConcurrent). The same applies to "ExecutionSpec adds maxConcurrent" in the Status section. The rule itself is right — both default to 0, meaning unlimited.
Also worth noting: the branch is behind main and will need a rebase, and this push dismissed the two prior approvals.
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Take Jayson's health check, fullnameOverride, hasSelfRefCRDs, and placement notes from #2523. Default ServiceMonitor off so install does not require prometheus-operator CRDs. Catalog uses --set-json for manager.affinity. Pin tests now walk overlays/mixins so nvcre stays opt-in. ADR remains #2541; this PR does not add one. Signed-off-by: Rohit Rajani <rorajani@nvidia.com>
Take Jayson's health check, fullnameOverride, hasSelfRefCRDs, and placement notes from #2523. Default ServiceMonitor off so install does not require prometheus-operator CRDs. Catalog uses --set-json for manager.affinity. Pin tests now walk overlays/mixins so nvcre stays opt-in. ADR remains #2541; this PR does not add one. Signed-off-by: Rohit Rajani <rorajani@nvidia.com>
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Summary
Proposes ADR-025, admitting the NVIDIA Cluster Readiness Engine (NVCRE) as an optional, registry-only AICR component. One new file, no implementation.
Motivation / Context
Per the review on #2523: a registry entry is a standing support commitment, and that decision should be recorded and accepted before it is implemented. This ADR is that record.
#2523 has since been closed as superseded — the registry implementation now lives in #2524, and the opt-in validators in #2519.
Fixes: N/A
Related: #2524, #2519
Type of Change
Component(s) Affected
docs/,examples/)Implementation Notes
Six decisions: registry-only adoption, the upstream/AICR ownership boundary, the Kubeflow Trainer and ServiceMonitor ordering contract, the registry entry not enforcing manager placement, a non-vacuous health check, and AICR-side bounds on Certification execution.
Four things worth reviewer attention.
Certificationis the integration surface, notWorkloadRun. The tuned per-fabric configuration — image,mpirunpath, fabric environment, per-platform runtime patches — exists only in the Certification workload catalog. On the same AWS H100 nodes a genericWorkloadRunmeasured ~3 GB/s over TCP where Certification measured 489 GB/s over EFA; that path did not use EFA at all. NVCRE reported a well-formed number for a run silently on the wrong transport, so any AICR check on its output must assert the expected transport loaded, not merely that a number was produced.The gates bound stock-overlay adoption, not registry-only admission. A registry entry is inert until an overlay declares a
ComponentRef, so an unmet gate cannot reach a stock recipe. Four gates are unmet on the v0.1.0 pin, none blocking, all tracked in Follow-Up:Supply chain (upstream release-workflow changes, not AICR work) — no
slsaprovenanceattestation on the controller image (onlycyclonedx.org/bomandsigstore.dev/cosign/sign/v1are present), and no supply-chain artifacts on the Helm chart at all (cosign treereports none; it is published by a barehelm push).Execution safety — no run-level bound on the node footprint (
nodesPerJobsizes each group, but partitioning covers the whole matched list andexecution.maxConcurrentdefaults to0, unlimited; onlytarget.nodeNamescaps the total), and no total run deadline plus no cleanup guarantee (deleting aCertificationcarries no propagation policy, the controller drops its finalizer without observing child deletion, and the pod-drain barrier proceeds after a five-minute grace period). Both live in the Certification API, so drivingCertificationrather thanWorkloadRundoes not close them.Decision 6 bounds execution from the caller side, which is what makes those gaps non-blocking rather than merely deferred. It is stated against the API, since the opt-in validators this ADR puts in scope create the CR directly and never invoke the CLI: cap the footprint with
target.nodeNames(settingnodesPerJobalone does not bound a run), bound the wait and treat expiry as failure, and confirm directly that the run'sTrainJobs and GPU pods are gone within a bounded wait — reporting cleanup failure, never a pass — because deleting theCertificationis not proof they stopped.A gate covers the workload runtime closure. The catalog is
go:embed-compiled into the manager, so its contents never appear in rendered chart output and AICR's mirror discovery — which extracts images from rendered YAML — cannot see them. Entries carry tag-only images, including a:latestpin in the AWS GB300 RoCE runtime patch, and the training entry clones Megatron-LM at pod start. The gate requires every image, fetched source, and runtime download reachable from a supported category and platform path to be discoverable, digest-pinned, and mirrorable. It does not bind registry-only admission, but it binds before any opt-in validator ships.What is verified on the pin: a keyless cosign signature on the image against the expected OIDC issuer and certificate identity, a CycloneDX SBOM attestation binding the image digest, multi-arch amd64/arm64, coherent chart
version/appVersion, and digest pinning through public values without patching the chart. Digests are recorded in the ADR.Testing
All pass. No Go, YAML, or recipe data changes — the diff is one markdown file, so
make testand the recipe suites are unaffected.Supply-chain claims were verified against the live registry rather than read off the upstream workflow:
cosign verify,cosign verify-attestationfor bothcyclonedxandslsaprovenancepredicate types,cosign treeagainst chart and image,crane digest/crane manifestfor digests and platforms, and ahelm templaterender confirming the tag-plus-digest pinning path. The execution-safety and runtime-closure claims were verified against CRE source (pkg/orchestration/partition.go,pkg/certification/certification.go,pkg/controller/pod_drain.go,pkg/catalog/entries/) and against AICR'spkg/mirror/discover.go; earlier checks used CRE65f19788(api/v1alpha1/certification_types.go,api/v1alpha1/workflow_types.go,docs/cli-reference/certification.md).Risk Assessment
Rollout notes: Documentation only. No registry entry, component, recipe, or bundle changes.
Checklist
make testwith-race) — N/A, no Go changesmake lint)git commit -S)