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Summary

Adds an opt-in requireNodeSelector guard that fails a bundle instead of silently skipping node-selector injection, and turns it on for slinky-slurm and slurm-accounting-mariadb.

Motivation / Context

A StatefulSet whose PVC pins it to a node's zone can get permanently stuck if it lands on the wrong node class (no selector supplied) and is only later corrected onto the right pool in a different zone — the PVC is already bound to the old zone, and the pod can never attach it from the new one. This happened on a real GB200 GKE cluster because --system-node-selector was silently optional.

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Type of Change

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

Component(s) Affected

  • CLI (cmd/aicr, pkg/cli)
  • API server (cmd/aicrd, pkg/server)
  • Recipe engine / data (pkg/recipe)
  • Bundlers (pkg/bundler, pkg/component/*)
  • Collectors / snapshotter (pkg/collector, pkg/snapshotter)
  • Validator (pkg/validator)
  • Core libraries (pkg/errors, pkg/k8s)
  • Docs/examples (docs/, examples/)
  • Other: ____________

Implementation Notes

  • SchedulingPaths.RequireNodeSelector (registry.yaml) opts a component's nodeScheduling.system/.accelerated block into failing the bundle when none of its declared nodeSelectorPaths end up with a non-empty selector. Off by default — most clusters have no distinct node pools, so an unset selector is usually intentional.
  • Enforcement (validateRequiredNodeSelectors) runs at the very end of extractComponentValues, after --set-json/--set-file, not inside applyNodeSchedulingOverrides at injection time. --set-json/--set-file deep-merge with "null deletes the key" semantics, so a CLI selector that satisfied injection can still be nulled back out before the bundle is written; checking the final resolved value closes that bypass.
  • An overlay can still opt out per-path with an explicit empty nodeSelector: {} override (same mechanism already used for toleration opt-out) — needed for h100-kind-training-slurm, a single Kind node with no distinct pools to select between.
  • The stock-render golden harness never exercised --system-node-selector at all; it now does, since it's a bundle-contract input several components require, same as the accelerated selector/storage class/node count already supplied there. That ripples the golden digest across every leaf, not just training-slurm ones (see pkg/bundler/testdata/stock_render_golden.yaml).

Testing

# Commands run (prefer `make qualify` for non-trivial changes)
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make qualify passed clean: unit tests with -race, all 24 chainsaw tests (including cli-bundle-slinky-storage and cli-recipe-overlays, both updated to pass --system-node-selector/--accelerated-node-selector now that they bundle slinky-slurm/slurm-accounting-mariadb), lint, vulnerability scan, license-check, api-diff, and openapi-diff.

New tests added:

  • TestApplyNodeSchedulingOverrides_RequireNodeSelector (pkg/bundler/bundler_test.go) — missing selector fails closed, CLI selector satisfies it, overlay opt-out satisfies it, overlay-hardcoded selector satisfies it without a CLI flag, components without requireNodeSelector stay a no-op, and the --set-json null-bypass regression case.
  • TestComponentRegistry_SlurmAccountingMariaDB_NodeSchedulingPaths extended with a regression guard asserting RequireSystemNodeSelector() stays true.

Coverage on changed packages (top-level, origin/main → branch):

  • pkg/bundler: 86.4% → 86.5% (+0.1%)
  • pkg/recipe: 90.0% → 90.0% (no change)

Both new exported methods (RequireSystemNodeSelector, RequireAcceleratedNodeSelector) are covered (66.7% — the uncovered branch is just the c == nil guard, consistent with sibling getters in the same file).

Risk Assessment

  • Low — Isolated change, well-tested, easy to revert
  • Medium — Touches multiple components or has broader impact
  • High — Breaking change, affects critical paths, or complex rollout

Rollout notes: requireNodeSelector defaults to false and is currently set only on slinky-slurm and slurm-accounting-mariadb. Any existing bundle command for those two components that omits --system-node-selector/--accelerated-node-selector and has no overlay opt-out will now fail at bundle time instead of silently shipping an unpinned pod — this is the intended behavior change, not a regression.

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) — GPG signing info

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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: 6

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-eks-ubuntu-training-slurm
  • gb300-eks-ubuntu-training-slurm
  • h100-aks-ubuntu-training-slurm
  • h100-eks-ubuntu-training-slurm
  • h100-gke-cos-training-slurm
  • h100-kind-training-slurm

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

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The change adds requireNodeSelector to component scheduling configuration. Registry validation checks selector paths. Bundling validates final selector values after injection and overrides. Dynamic declarations on required paths are rejected. Tests, registry entries, Kind overlays, CLI integration tests, documentation, and parity data are updated.

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 7b79e

Bundles for the affected Slurm components now fail when required node selectors are absent, while explicit empty-selector overlays retain single-node opt-out behavior. No current merge-blocking risk is identified.

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In `@pkg/bundler/bundler.go`:
- Line 1924: Update validateRequiredNodeSelectors to return or propagate the
error from recipe.GetComponentRegistryFor(provider) instead of returning nil
when registry resolution fails. Preserve the existing comp == nil no-op for
legitimate non-component entries, while ensuring extraction and bundle
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- Line 1933: Update the validation flow around dynamicPathSetFor and
validateRequiredNodeSelectors so paths required by requireNodeSelector remain
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- Line 1970: Update validateRequiredNodeSelectors to recognize non-empty
map[any]any values as valid selector overrides, preserving the existing
map[string]any handling and missing-selector behavior for unsupported or empty
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- Around line 2718-2732: Add an integration subtest that invokes
extractComponentValues with a dynamic path targeting the required node-selector
path controller.podSpec.nodeSelector, and assert it returns an error naming that
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A StatefulSet whose PVC pins it to a node's zone can get permanently
stuck if it first lands on the wrong node class (no selector supplied)
and is only later corrected onto the right pool in a different zone:
the PVC already bound to the old zone, and the pod can never attach
it from the new one.

Adds requireNodeSelector to the registry's SchedulingPaths so a
component can opt into treating a missing --system/--accelerated-
node-selector as a bundle-time error instead of a silent no-op. This
stays off by default: many valid clusters have no distinct node
pools, so an unset selector is usually intentional, not a mistake. No
registry entry sets it yet; component opt-ins land as their own
commits.

Signed-off-by: Mike Cook <micook@nvidia.com>
slinky-slurm turns on requireNodeSelector (added in the prior commit)
for both its system and accelerated paths: an unpinned controller/
restapi/login/accounting pod can land on a GPU node, and an unpinned
NodeSet/worker pod can just as easily land on a system (non-GPU)
node. Either way the pod's PVC binds to that node's zone, and a later
reschedule onto the correct pool in a different zone gets stuck
forever waiting on a PVC it can't attach to. This happened on a real
GB200 GKE cluster because --system-node-selector was silently
optional.

h100-kind-training-slurm is a single Kind node with no distinct pools
to select between, so it opts out via an explicit empty nodeSelector
override on every declared path (the same mechanism --set/overlay
users already use to opt out of toleration injection).

The stock-render golden harness never exercised --system-node-selector
at all; it now does, since it's a bundle-contract input several
components require, same as the accelerated selector/storage
class/node count already supplied there. That ripples the golden
digest across every leaf, not just training-slurm ones.

Signed-off-by: Mike Cook <micook@nvidia.com>
Same failure mode as slinky-slurm: slurm-accounting-mariadb's mariadb
pod is backed by a PVC (mariadb.storage.storageClassName), and this
component is deployed alongside slinky-slurm in every training-slurm
leaf. Left unpinned, it can land on a GPU node, its PVC binds to that
zone, and a later reschedule onto the correct system-node pool in a
different zone gets stuck forever waiting on a PVC it can't attach
to. Turns on requireNodeSelector for its single system path.

h100-kind-training-slurm opts out the same way it already does for
slinky-slurm: an explicit empty nodeSelector override, since Kind is
a single node with no distinct pools to select between.

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