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Root cause

"Run Kubernetes Chaos Tests" has never passed: 269/269 failures since introduction (Sep 17). Forensic analysis of 71 failed runs found zero flakiness — four systematic defects:

  1. Workers never schedule: the harness pins production-sized CPU requests (~6.2 CPU/job) on a 4-vCPU Kind node with ~1.7 CPU free; every benchmark test hangs at Pending to timeout, and even the ImagePullBackOff test sees no pods.
  2. Preflight only WARNs on provable capacity insufficiency instead of failing fast.
  3. Helm SSA conflict (h1–h3, every run): the session fixture kubectl-applies chart CRDs; helm install then conflicts on field ownership (kubectl-client-side-apply).
  4. Diagnostics always empty: the workflow's failure-diagnostics step ran after pytest's session fixture had already deleted the cluster.

Changes (22 commits, append-only, signed)

  • CPU overcommit floor (opt-in, K8S_TEST_NODE_CPU_OVERCOMMIT=32 in chaos Make targets): daemon-thread reconciler patches local Kind nodes' advertised CPU (never memory), re-applied every 5s — kubelet re-asserts real capacity every ~10–30s (measured). Locality anchored to the local docker daemon via kind get nodes; every call bounded; join-verified teardown. Imported byte-identical from fix(k8s): make the audit workflow schedulable on 4-vCPU Kind nodes #1610's reviewed helper — merge that PR first.
  • Strict preflight (AIPERF_PREFLIGHT_STRICT_RESOURCES, opt-in, default off): fails only when NO sample within a bounded poll window (AIPERF_PREFLIGHT_STRICT_CONFIRM_SECONDS=12s, sub-cadence vs the floor's 5s re-apply) shows sufficient allocatable — coherent with the oscillating synthetic floor; transient/NotReady recovery downgrades to WARN.
  • CRD adoption: before helm install, re-apply only the chart's rendered CRDs with --server-side --force-conflicts --field-manager=helm (narrow — unlike ci(k8s): keep Kind cluster alive for diagnostics and tolerate Helm 4 SSA conflicts #1490's release-wide force), guarded by a live-spec drift check normalized for API defaulting; non-NotFound read errors fail closed.
  • Diagnostics: failure tracker records at destructive-finalizer boundaries; --k8s-diagnostics-dir dumps (incl. kind export logs) fire BEFORE operator uninstall/cluster delete; --k8s-keep-cluster-on-failure retains the cluster on failure only.

Verification

  • Unit: 6530 passed on a SLURM node (receipt in PR history); pinned ruff clean
  • Live kind receipts: helm negative control reproduces the exact CI conflict error, fixed path deploys; reconciler holds the floor across kubelet re-assertion; chaos subset (b2 + h1) green — captured on a docker-capable host since the SLURM node's proxy forbids privileged containers; the workflow's own next CI run is the final venue
  • Independent adversarial review: 4 rounds, final verdict APPROVE

Merge order: land #1610 (audit) first; this branch shares its overcommit helper and the integration notes are in the review thread.

AI-assisted fix (investigation + review swarm), verified on SLURM compute.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Kubernetes preflight checks can optionally fail when CPU or memory capacity is insufficient. A configurable observation window allows temporary capacity shortages to recover before a failure is reported.
    • Kubernetes chaos tests can capture cluster diagnostics and retain the cluster after failures. Local Kind test clusters can also enable an optional CPU-capacity floor.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Kubernetes chart installations now verify that existing custom resource definitions match the rendered definitions before applying them.
  • Documentation

    • Added guidance on the new preflight settings and Kubernetes test options.

…edule

Root cause of the weekly audit workflow's 4/4 failures: the operator
deploys production-calibrated pod requests (one AIPerfJob needs ~6 CPUs
across controller + worker pods; the mock server requests 2 more), but the
single-node Kind cluster on a 4-vCPU ubuntu-latest runner has ~1.7 CPUs
free after kube-system (950m measured), the JobSet controller (500m), the
mock server, and the operator pod. Every benchmark pod sat Pending with
FailedScheduling/Insufficient cpu until the 1800s timeout.

Rather than weaken the test fixtures' resource requests (which would hide
what production actually schedules), raise the node's advertised CPU
capacity/allocatable to a 32-core floor via a status patch, letting the
scheduler admit the real workload. Kind nodes already advertise the host's
CPU count regardless of what the node container can use, so this extends an
existing overcommit; admitted pods contend for the runner's real CPUs,
which the suites already tolerate (audit tolerance bands are non-gating for
exactly this reason). Memory is not faked.

Caveat verified against kind v0.27.0 / k8s 1.32.2 and the kubelet source:
kubelet recomputes real capacity on every node-status sync and patches the
API object back on drift (kubelet_node_status.go tryUpdateNodeStatus), so a
one-shot patch reverts within seconds. The local_cluster fixture therefore
re-applies the patch every 5s for the session's lifetime. Floor semantics
never shrink genuinely large nodes (GPU runners), and existing/remote
clusters are never patched. --k8s-node-cpu-overcommit /
K8S_TEST_NODE_CPU_OVERCOMMIT overrides the floor; 0 disables.

(cherry picked from commit 018655a)
Signed-off-by: Anthony Casagrande <acasagrande@nvidia.com>
(cherry picked from commit 0e5f81b)
Signed-off-by: Anthony Casagrande <acasagrande@nvidia.com>
(cherry picked from commit 75f0dfa)
Signed-off-by: Anthony Casagrande <acasagrande@nvidia.com>
…driven

Corrects three defects in the cherry-picked overcommit mechanism (from the
audit-lane review, verified live on kind v0.27.0/k8s 1.32.2):

1. The 5s re-assert loop must not live on a pytest-asyncio event loop —
   those only advance while a coroutine is running, so a package-loop task
   freezes for the whole duration of every function-scoped test, exactly
   when the scheduler needs the floor re-asserted against kubelet's ~10s
   capacity rewrite (kubelet_node_status.go tryUpdateNodeStatus re-patches
   the API object on drift; a one-shot patch reverts within seconds). The
   loop now runs on a daemon thread with a fresh asyncio loop per pass.

2. node_cpu_overcommit_patch floors capacity and allocatable independently
   and only ever RAISES a field — a node whose real capacity already
   exceeds the floor keeps it, and allocatable is never raised above
   capacity.

3. The mechanism is strictly opt-in (--k8s-node-cpu-overcommit /
   K8S_TEST_NODE_CPU_OVERCOMMIT, default 0 = disabled) and refuses to patch
   any node whose providerID is not kind://, so a repointed kubeconfig
   context can never fake capacity on a remote/shared cluster.

The chaos CI Makefile targets opt in with K8S_TEST_NODE_CPU_OVERCOMMIT=32:
the chaos suite keeps production-sized pod requests (worker pod 3350m +
control-plane 2850m per job) because those requests mirror production
sizing and the suite exists to exercise control-plane/scheduling behavior;
faking the node's advertised CPU (memory stays real) is what lets the
scheduler admit them on a 4-vCPU ubuntu-latest runner.

(cherry-picked design from commit 018655a,
corrected per cross-lane review)

Signed-off-by: Anthony Casagrande <acasagrande@nvidia.com>
The assertion compared list slices to a tuple and was therefore always
False; compare against a list so the guard test actually verifies that no
patch call is issued against non-kind nodes.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Casagrande <acasagrande@nvidia.com>
… on provable shortfall

Root cause (chaos workflow, 269/269 failures since 2026-09-17): the
operator's _check_node_resources preflight only WARNs when required CPU/mem
exceeds cluster capacity, so every benchmark job hung at phase=Pending —
the JobSet is created (handlers/create.py) but the worker pods can never be
admitted by the 4-vCPU Kind node, and Pending->Initializing needs
workers_ready>0 (handlers/monitor.py) — until the 180-300s test timeout.

WARN-and-proceed is deliberate for production flexibility (a cluster may
over-commit or autoscale while a job queues), so the default is unchanged.
The operator grows AIPERF_PREFLIGHT_STRICT_RESOURCES (default false): when
set, a provable shortfall — required resources exceed total schedulable
ALLOCATABLE, so no amount of waiting can help — FAILs preflight with a
clear message instead of hanging. Transient free-capacity shortfalls (pods
that may release capacity) still WARN even in strict mode, so teardown
overlap between serial tests cannot flake.

The K8s test harness opts in via --k8s-operator-strict-preflight /
K8S_TEST_OPERATOR_STRICT_PREFLIGHT, wired through a new strictly-additive
OperatorDeployer(strict_preflight=...) flag that sets the env var on the
operator deployment; the chaos Makefile targets enable it.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Casagrande <acasagrande@nvidia.com>
…nstall

Root cause (chaos tests h1/h2/h3, every run): the package-scoped operator
fixture installs the chart's CRDs via helm template + kubectl apply, so the
CRD fields are owned by the kubectl-client-side-apply manager with release
label app.kubernetes.io/instance=aiperf-operator. azure/setup-helm@v4 now
resolves Helm 4, whose install applies server-side and refuses to touch
foreign-owned fields, so HelmDeployer.install_chart failed every run with
SSA conflicts on the CRD objects
(.metadata.labels.app.kubernetes.io/instance, .spec.versions).

Fix narrowly: install_chart re-applies the chart's own rendered CRDs with
kubectl apply --server-side --force-conflicts --field-manager=helm before
helm install, transferring ownership of exactly the conflicting objects to
the manager helm applies as, with the exact values helm is about to set.
Unlike a release-wide 'helm install --force-conflicts' (competing PR 1490),
this cannot silently adopt stale field values on non-CRD resources, and the
CRD content itself is always the current chart's. For Helm 3 (client-side
apply) the extra apply is a harmless no-op.

Shared-helper change (tests/kubernetes/helpers/helm.py,
tests/kubernetes/helpers/kubectl.py): strictly additive — a new
KubectlClient.apply_server_side_manifest and one extra CRD-scoped apply in
HelmDeployer.install_chart; also fixes the same latent conflict for the
regular kubernetes-tests suite's helm tests.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Casagrande <acasagrande@nvidia.com>
…er down

Root cause (chaos workflow diagnostics always empty): the 'Collect cluster
diagnostics on failure' step runs after pytest exits, but the session
fixtures have by then deleted the per-test workloads, uninstalled the
operator, and deleted the Kind cluster, so every kubectl call in that step
hit a dead apiserver (connection refused) and there were no pods left to
describe or read logs from.

Two coordinated changes, both strictly opt-in:

* --k8s-keep-cluster-on-failure / K8S_TEST_KEEP_CLUSTER_ON_FAILURE (set in
  the chaos workflow): the local_cluster fixture skips only the final
  cluster delete, and only when the session saw failures, so the workflow's
  diagnostics step reads a live cluster. On success the fixtures tear
  everything down as before, and the workflow's always() teardown deletes
  the cluster even after failed runs, so self-hosted runners are protected.

* --k8s-diagnostics-dir / K8S_TEST_DIAGNOSTICS_DIR (set in the chaos
  workflow to k8s-chaos-logs/pytest-dump): the operator_ready and
  local_cluster fixtures dump cluster state (resources, events, describes,
  CR/JobSet/pod YAML, per-pod logs, and a kind log export at cluster
  teardown — which still finds terminated pods' container logs on the node
  filesystem) from WITHIN fixture teardown, before the operator uninstall
  and cluster delete destroy the evidence. The capture is best-effort and
  can never fail session teardown.

Failure detection uses a small pytest plugin recording failed reports on
the config stash; fixtures consult it during teardown.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Casagrande <acasagrande@nvidia.com>
…t-lane design

Replace this lane's intermediate correction with the audit lane's reviewed
shape (fix/ci-k8s-audit-cluster-sizing 43d1417) so the shared helper files
are byte-identical across both lanes and merge cleanly: a
CpuOvercommitReconciler daemon thread (start() applies eagerly and
fail-fast, stop() join-verifies exit; never an asyncio task on the
package-scoped fixture loop, which is suspended for the whole duration of
each function-scoped test), a sync kubectl path (_kubectl_sync /
apply_cpu_overcommit_sync), per-field never-shrink flooring via
node_cpu_overcommit_patch, a pure select_overcommit_targets locality
partition requiring the kind:// providerID marker, and their updated unit
tests. The chaos Makefile targets' K8S_TEST_NODE_CPU_OVERCOMMIT=32 opt-in
is unchanged.

(cherry-picked design from commit 43d1417)

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…_node_resources under C901

The strict-mode branch added one decision too many to
_check_node_resources (complexity 11 > 10 under the repo's out-of-band
ruff baseline). Extract the provable-insufficiency FAIL into a static
helper; behavior and messages unchanged (covered by
TestCheckNodeResourcesStrictMode).

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Signed-off-by: Anthony Casagrande <acasagrande@nvidia.com>
Replace the stale 43d1417 mirror with the audit lane's final reviewed
revision, wholesale:

- Locality is anchored to the local Docker daemon, not just the kind://
  providerID: kind_cluster_node_names() derives the allowlist from
  'kind get nodes --name <cluster>' (container labels on the LOCAL daemon,
  never the Kubernetes API of a possibly repointed context), and the
  fixture refuses to fake capacity when the allowlist is empty.
- select_overcommit_targets requires BOTH fixture-cluster membership and
  the kind:// provider marker.
- Bounded kubectl: --request-timeout=10s at the apiserver plus a 30s
  subprocess timeout, so a wedged apiserver cannot hang the reconciler
  thread past fixture teardown.
- The stop event is checked between node-patch sub-operations, and stop()
  joins with 45s (> the 30s call bound) and logs-and-retains a surviving
  thread instead of raising past fixture cleanup — removing the
  cleanup-aborting failure mode where stop() could pre-empt the failure
  diagnostics and cluster delete below it.

(cherry-picked design from commit d6d11a0)

Signed-off-by: Anthony Casagrande <acasagrande@nvidia.com>
…ndow

Review found the strict preflight raced the CI CPU floor: the floor
oscillates (kubelet re-asserts real capacity within ~10s, the reconciler
re-applies every 5s), so a preflight sampling the reverted window read a
low allocatable snapshot and permanently failed the job
(handlers/create.py turns a preflight FAIL into kopf.PermanentError) even
though the floor would admit it seconds later. The same overstatement
applied to transiently NotReady/tainted nodes that later recover.

Strict mode now confirms before rejecting: on an allocatable-level
shortfall the check waits AIPERF_PREFLIGHT_STRICT_CONFIRM_SECONDS (default
12s — two reconciler cycles, well under the 30s preflight budget) and
re-lists nodes; only a shortfall that persists across the window FAILs.
Recovered capacity is re-evaluated on the fresh totals, so a floor
restoration mid-window yields the normal PASS/WARN path. Non-strict mode
is unchanged (single pass, WARN), and free-capacity shortfalls still WARN
even in strict mode. Deterministic unit coverage: low-snapshot-then-
restored-floor passes with exactly two node listings; persistent shortfall
fails; recovering node passes; non-strict performs no re-check.

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…uirement

The 'tiny' 4-CPU/12Gi node was not actually insufficient (default
controller+worker requirement is ~3.8 CPU / 7.75 Gi), so the strict branch
never fired and the single-list assertion failed. Use 1/1Gi (below) for the
reverted snapshot and 32/32Gi (above) for the restored floor.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Casagrande <acasagrande@nvidia.com>
Review found the CRD-scoped SSA adoption never compared the live CRD against
the chart's rendered CRD before force-taking ownership: a CRD whose schema
genuinely drifted (older chart, external tooling, hand edit) would be
silently overwritten under the same served/storage version.

HelmDeployer._adopt_crds now fetches each live CRD first: a missing CRD is
the fresh-install case and adopts cleanly; a live spec equal to the rendered
spec (metadata ownership/labels legitimately differ) adopts; any spec drift
fails the install with a unified diff instead of adopting. Tests: fresh
cluster adopts once before install (asserted via call order, not just
counts), matching live spec adopts, drifted live spec raises and never
reaches helm install, CRD-free renders skip adoption.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Casagrande <acasagrande@nvidia.com>
Review found the diagnostics/keep-on-failure blind spot: _FailureTracker
learned failures only from pytest_runtest_logreport, but pytest constructs
and logs a teardown report only after that test's finalizers complete — and
for the last test in a package, the package-scope finalizers (operator
uninstall, cluster delete) can already have run, so a teardown-only failure
left the stash empty: diagnostics skipped, cluster deleted.

_FailureTracker now also implements pytest_exception_interact, which fires
at exception time — before the report and before package finalizers — and
records the nodeid (deduped against the later logreport entry). Unit
coverage simulates the exact ordering: exception-interact without any
logreport records the failure; passing interactions record nothing; the
same test arriving via both hooks is recorded once.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Casagrande <acasagrande@nvidia.com>
… window

Regenerate docs/environment-variables.md (make generate-env-vars-docs) for
the two new operator env vars and describe the strict-mode confirmation
semantics in docs/kubernetes/preflight.md's Node Resources check entry, per
AGENTS.md's documentation-required rule.

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…d files

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…s endpoints

Review found the two-snapshot confirmation still aliased the oscillating CI
floor: with kubelet re-asserting real capacity between the reconciler's 5s
re-applications, samples at t=0 and t=12 can both land in lowered windows
(low -> raised -> low) and permanently reject a job whose capacity provably
recovered — the lane's own reconciler-hold receipt showed only 8/15 samples
at the floor.

The strict path now POLLS: every 2.5s (sub-cadence of the 5s floor
re-apply) for AIPERF_PREFLIGHT_STRICT_CONFIRM_SECONDS, and permanently
rejects only when no sample in the window fits. Any fitting sample
downgrades to the normal WARN/PASS evaluation on those totals; a window
read error is not proof and falls back to WARN. The poll loop runs on a
logical clock (sum of intervals) with an injectable sleep, so tests drive
it deterministically without real waiting. New coverage: low -> raised ->
low within the window passes; persistent low fails; read error warns.

Claims in the env-var description and check docstring now say 'no sample in
the window fits' rather than 'shortfall persisted', matching the shipped
semantics.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Casagrande <acasagrande@nvidia.com>
Binding asyncio.sleep as a default argument captured the real function at
import, so the unit suite's patched sleep could not control the clock and
the persistent-shortfall test really slept 12s. Resolve at call time so
test clocks (patched or injected) apply.

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… on read errors

Review found two defects in the drift guard:

A. Raw live-vs-rendered equality rejects API defaulting: the API stores an
omitted spec.conversion as {"strategy": "None"}
(k8s.io/apiextensions-apiserver v1/defaults.go), so a CRD installed from
this exact chart compared unequal with zero drift — the normal
pre-installed-CRD path would have been refused before every helm install.
Specs are now normalized before comparison (null-valued keys and the
default conversion stanza stripped from both sides); semantic drift
(versions, schema, group, names, scope, non-default conversion) still
fails. The matching-spec test now feeds a realistic API-defaulted live
object instead of the rendered spec verbatim.

B. Any failed kubectl get was treated as 'not present', bypassing the
guard. Non-NotFound read errors now fail closed with a clear error; a
Forbidden negative test covers it.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Casagrande <acasagrande@nvidia.com>
… via exception hooks

Review found the pytest_exception_interact approach backwards: pytest's
runner logs the teardown report BEFORE calling pytest_exception_interact
(_pytest/runner.py:249-258), so the hook was later than the existing
logreport path, not earlier, and the claimed ordering protection never
existed.

The mechanism is now boundary recording: failures raised inside the
destructive package finalizers (operator uninstall, job cleanup) are
recorded into the session stash at the moment they occur — before the
remaining finalizers (cluster teardown's dump/keep decisions) run.
Finalizer failures produce no test report, so report-based hooks cannot
cover them at any ordering. The incorrect exception-time hook and its claim
are removed.

Proven by a real subprocess pytest lifecycle test: an otherwise-passing
final test, a failing earlier package finalizer, and a sentinel written by
the later finalizer only if it already sees the recorded failure.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Casagrande <acasagrande@nvidia.com>
environment-variables.md regenerated for the rewritten
AIPERF_PREFLIGHT_STRICT_CONFIRM_SECONDS description (observation window with
polling, not a two-endpoint comparison); preflight.md's Node Resources entry
no longer overstates endpoint persistence and notes the confirm window must
stay below PREFLIGHT_TIMEOUT as guidance.

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…t files

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…t only

Review found the recursive normalizer masked genuine drift: it stripped ANY
nested key named 'conversion' (including a schema property definition like
{"type": "string"} under openAPIV3Schema) and removed null-valued keys at
arbitrary schema depth where they can carry meaning. Normalization now
removes only the API server's default top-level spec.conversion stanza; all
schema subtrees compare verbatim. New negative tests: a schema property
named 'conversion' and a semantic schema-default difference are both
refused; the API-defaulted top-level conversion still adopts.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Casagrande <acasagrande@nvidia.com>
…njected clock

Review found two polling defects:

1. Truncated window: with window=12s and a 2.5s poll, the loop returned
   failure at elapsed=10 without observing the window's final instant — a
   node recovering at t=11 was rejected. The loop now takes a shortened
   final sleep so the last sample lands exactly at the window edge (and a
   sub-interval window still gets its final read instead of returning
   immediately).

2. The low->high->low regression test never exercised a poll sleep: its
   raised sample was consumed by the window's entry read and the third
   (low) response was never used, so the old two-endpoint algorithm would
   also have passed it. The strict tests now drive capacity as a function
   of an injected logical clock (monkeypatched asyncio.sleep advances the
   model time), asserting the exact read/sleep timeline: low at t=0 and
   t=12 with a raised interval at [5,10) passes via the t=5 poll; a
   persistent shortfall samples at 0, 2.5, 5, 7.5, 10, 12 and fails; a
   recovery at t=11 is caught by the final shortened sample.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Casagrande <acasagrande@nvidia.com>
…ndaries

Review found the helm_deployer finalizer (cleanup_all + uninstall_chart +
shared-operator restore) and the benchmark_deployer cleanup still
propagated teardown failures without recording them, and helm_deployed
swallowed cleanup failures silently. pytest reports a teardown failure only
after the whole finalizer stack finishes, so a last-test finalizer failure
could leave the stash empty when the cluster teardown made its dump/keep
decision.

All four destructive finalizers now record before propagating (or before
swallowing, for the deliberately non-fatal helm job cleanup). Coverage
extends beyond the wrapped-analog lifecycle test: a new test drives the
ACTUAL helm_deployer fixture with a mocked cleanup failure and asserts the
stash is updated before the exception escapes.

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The pull request adds strict resource-capacity checks to operator preflight, expands Kubernetes test-cluster CPU and failure-diagnostics support, and adopts matching rendered CRDs before Helm installation.

Changes

Strict Resource Preflight

Layer / File(s) Summary
Capacity settings and aggregation
src/aiperf/operator/environment.py, src/aiperf/operator/preflight/_resources.py, docs/environment-variables.md, docs/kubernetes/preflight.md
Adds strict-resource and confirmation-window settings. Capacity calculations track free and allocatable resources for Ready nodes that pass toleration checks.
Confirmation window and evaluation
src/aiperf/operator/preflight/_resources.py, tests/unit/operator/test_preflight.py
Strict mode polls an allocatable shortfall through the configured window. If no sample fits, preflight fails; otherwise, normal free-capacity WARN/PASS evaluation continues.
Strict-mode deployment wiring
tests/kubernetes/helpers/operator.py, tests/kubernetes/conftest.py, tests/kubernetes/chaos/conftest.py
Operator deployment and chaos fixtures pass the strict-resource setting to operator deployments.

Kubernetes Test Support

Layer / File(s) Summary
Local Kind CPU reconciliation
tests/kubernetes/helpers/cluster.py, tests/kubernetes/conftest.py, tests/unit/kubernetes/test_cpu_overcommit.py, tests/kubernetes/README.md, Makefile
Adds an opt-in CPU capacity floor for verified fixture-owned Kind nodes, with periodic reconciliation. Test settings and chaos-test targets expose the option.
Failure tracking and cluster evidence
tests/kubernetes/conftest.py, tests/kubernetes/helpers/diagnostics.py, tests/unit/kubernetes/test_chaos_ci_diagnostics.py, .github/workflows/run-kubernetes-chaos-tests.yml
Fixtures record test and teardown failures, capture configured diagnostics, and can retain a failed cluster. The workflow configures cluster retention and a diagnostics directory.

Helm CRD Adoption

Layer / File(s) Summary
CRD comparison and pre-install adoption
tests/kubernetes/helpers/helm.py, tests/kubernetes/helpers/kubectl.py, tests/unit/kubernetes/test_helm_crd_adoption.py
Helm installation verifies rendered CRD specs against existing CRDs, normalizes the API server’s default conversion stanza, and applies matching CRDs with server-side apply before installation.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 5491a

This change makes the Kubernetes chaos workflow runnable and adds opt-in safeguards. The remaining issues are small: a local Kind cluster can be left behind if CPU-overcommit setup fails, and a misconfigured strict-preflight window can silently fall back to a warning. Both are easy to fix and unlikely to affect production users, so the PR is mergeable with follow-up attention.

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A rabbit checks the cluster floor,
Then hops where CPU counts are sure.
If tests fall down, the logs are near,
The saved node tells what happened here.
CRDs match, then charts can land,
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No new commits or local test runs. The shared CPU-overcommit helper and tests remain byte-identical to #1610 revision d6d11a061. Merge #1610 first; any shared-helper changes belong there.

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Actionable comments posted: 1

🧹 Nitpick comments: 5
tests/kubernetes/helpers/kubectl.py: 1

337-366: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Extract the duplicated stdin-apply subprocess logic.

Lines 343-366 repeat the body of apply (Lines 279-302). The shared parts are the stdin pipe, wait_for, the timeout and cancel handling, _terminate_process, and the return-code check. A later fix to one copy can miss the other.

Move that logic into one private helper that takes the already built cmd. Both apply and apply_server_side_manifest then only build their arguments.

async def _apply_from_stdin(self, cmd: list[str], manifest: str, timeout: int) -> str:
    proc = await asyncio.create_subprocess_exec(
        *cmd,
        stdin=asyncio.subprocess.PIPE,
        stdout=asyncio.subprocess.PIPE,
        stderr=asyncio.subprocess.PIPE,
    )
    try:
        stdout, stderr = await asyncio.wait_for(
            proc.communicate(input=manifest.encode()), timeout=timeout
        )
    except TimeoutError:
        await _terminate_process(proc)
        logger.warning(f"kubectl apply timed out after {timeout}s: {' '.join(cmd)}")
        raise TimeoutError(
            f"kubectl apply timed out after {timeout}s: {' '.join(cmd)}"
        ) from None
    except asyncio.CancelledError:
        await _terminate_process(proc)
        raise
    if proc.returncode != 0:
        raise RuntimeError(f"Failed to apply manifest: {stderr.decode()}")
    return stdout.decode()
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Review comment at @tests/kubernetes/helpers/kubectl.py around lines 337 - 366:
Extract the duplicated stdin subprocess execution, timeout and cancellation
handling, process termination, and return-code validation into a private helper
that accepts the built command, manifest, and timeout. Update apply and
apply_server_side_manifest to build their respective arguments and delegate
execution to that helper.
tests/unit/kubernetes/test_helm_crd_adoption.py: 1

180-197: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Make the two normalization-guard tests exercise the guard.

These tests do not prove what their docstrings claim. Here is why.

  • _RENDERED has no schema in its version entry.
  • The live spec in both tests adds a full schema block.
  • The specs therefore differ in versions before any conversion property or default: None is compared.
  • _normalize_crd_spec can be wrong in any way and both tests still raise Refusing to force-adopt CRD.

For example, a normalizer that recursively strips conversion keys would still pass.

Make the rendered CRD carry the same schema as the live CRD. Then differ only in the property under test, which is properties.conversion in the first test and default: None in the second. Override helm.template in each test to return that rendered CRD. This way, the test fails if the normalizer masks the nested difference.

def _rendered_with_schema(spec_props: dict) -> str:
    docs = list(yaml.safe_load_all(_RENDERED))
    docs[0]["spec"]["versions"][0]["schema"] = {
        "openAPIV3Schema": {
            "type": "object",
            "properties": {"spec": {"type": "object", **spec_props}},
        }
    }
    return yaml.safe_dump_all(docs)

# in the test:
helm.template = AsyncMock(return_value=_rendered_with_schema({"properties": {}}))
# live: same schema, but with {"properties": {"conversion": {"type": "string"}}}

Also applies to: 213-225

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Review comment at @tests/unit/kubernetes/test_helm_crd_adoption.py around lines
180 - 197:
Update both normalization-guard tests to give the rendered CRD the same schema
as the live CRD, differing only in the nested value each test checks:
properties.conversion or default: None. Override helm.template in each test to
return that rendered CRD, so the tests verify that _normalize_crd_spec detects
the intended difference.
src/aiperf/operator/environment.py: 1

601-617: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Enforce the "keep below PREFLIGHT_TIMEOUT" constraint when strict mode is on.

The constraint exists only in the description text. Suppose an operator sets AIPERF_PREFLIGHT_TIMEOUT below the window length with strict mode on. Cancelling the concurrent Node Resources check on timeout produces a WARN, not a FAIL. Strict mode then silently behaves like non-strict mode. This conflicts with the stated goal of strict-preflight coherence.

Add a cross-field validator that rejects the combination, as the sibling settings classes do. Apply it only when PREFLIGHT_STRICT_RESOURCES is true. An unconditional check would reject a valid non-strict AIPERF_PREFLIGHT_TIMEOUT=5 that works today.

Add this to _OperatorEnvironment, outside the changed range:

    @model_validator(mode="after")
    def validate_strict_window_fits_timeout(self) -> Self:
        """Reject a strict confirmation window that cannot finish inside the preflight deadline."""
        if (
            self.PREFLIGHT_STRICT_RESOURCES
            and self.PREFLIGHT_STRICT_CONFIRM_SECONDS >= self.PREFLIGHT_TIMEOUT
        ):
            raise ValueError(
                "PREFLIGHT_STRICT_CONFIRM_SECONDS must be < PREFLIGHT_TIMEOUT "
                "when PREFLIGHT_STRICT_RESOURCES is true"
            )
        return self
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Review comment at @src/aiperf/operator/environment.py around lines 601 - 617:
Add an after-model validator to _OperatorEnvironment that rejects configurations
where PREFLIGHT_STRICT_RESOURCES is true and PREFLIGHT_STRICT_CONFIRM_SECONDS is
greater than or equal to PREFLIGHT_TIMEOUT. Allow shorter timeouts when strict
resources mode is disabled.
tests/unit/kubernetes/test_cpu_overcommit.py: 1

208-212: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Replace the fixed sleep with a bounded wait to avoid a flaky assertion.

The test sleeps 0.3 s and then requires two thread fires at a 0.05 s interval, in addition to the eager apply. On a loaded CI runner, the daemon thread can be starved for more than 0.3 s. The test then fails without any real defect.

fired_thrice.wait(...) also blocks the calling thread without an event loop. It therefore proves the same property with a generous timeout.

Proposed fix
-        time.sleep(0.3)
-        assert fired_thrice.is_set(), (
+        assert fired_thrice.wait(timeout=5.0), (
             f"reconciler fired {reconciler.apply_count}x in ~0.3s at 0.05s "
             "interval; it must not depend on any asyncio event loop"
         )
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Review comment at @tests/unit/kubernetes/test_cpu_overcommit.py around lines 208
- 212:
Replace the fixed sleep and immediate `fired_thrice.is_set()` assertion in this
test with a bounded wait on `fired_thrice`, using a generous timeout so the test
tolerates a delayed daemon thread while still verifying the expected fires
without an asyncio event loop.
tests/kubernetes/helpers/cluster.py: 1

244-250: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Include kubectl stderr in _kubectl_sync failures.

subprocess.run(..., check=True) raises CalledProcessError. Its message contains only the exit status, not the captured stderr. CpuOvercommitReconciler.start() propagates this error and fails the local_cluster fixture. The _run loop logs CPU overcommit re-apply failed: {exc}. In both cases the cause (RBAC, a missing --subresource support, apiserver errors) is lost, which makes a failed CI run hard to diagnose.

Raise an error that carries stderr. Do not print the full argument list, because it contains the patch body.

Proposed fix
-    return subprocess.run(
-        ["kubectl", "--context", context, "--request-timeout=10s", *args],
-        capture_output=True,
-        text=True,
-        check=check,
-        timeout=timeout,
-    )
+    result = subprocess.run(
+        ["kubectl", "--context", context, "--request-timeout=10s", *args],
+        capture_output=True,
+        text=True,
+        check=False,
+        timeout=timeout,
+    )
+    if check and result.returncode != 0:
+        raise RuntimeError(
+            f"kubectl {' '.join(args[:2])} failed (rc={result.returncode}): "
+            f"{result.stderr.strip()}"
+        )
+    return result
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Review comment at @tests/kubernetes/helpers/cluster.py around lines 244 - 250:
Update `_kubectl_sync` to include captured stderr in errors when kubectl exits
unsuccessfully and `check` is enabled. Preserve the returned result for
successful calls and avoid including the full argument list in the error, since
it may contain the patch body.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @tests/kubernetes/conftest.py:
- Around line 919-932: Move the overcommit setup in the cluster fixture,
including the empty-node check and `overcommit_reconciler.start`, inside the
existing `try` that yields the cluster so its `finally` cleanup runs if setup
raises. Keep the reconciler cleanup and cluster delete/keep decisions in that
`finally`.

---

Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @src/aiperf/operator/environment.py:
- Around line 601-617: Add an after-model validator to _OperatorEnvironment that
rejects configurations where PREFLIGHT_STRICT_RESOURCES is true and
PREFLIGHT_STRICT_CONFIRM_SECONDS is greater than or equal to PREFLIGHT_TIMEOUT.
Allow shorter timeouts when strict resources mode is disabled.

Review comments at @tests/kubernetes/helpers/cluster.py:
- Around line 244-250: Update `_kubectl_sync` to include captured stderr in
errors when kubectl exits unsuccessfully and `check` is enabled. Preserve the
returned result for successful calls and avoid including the full argument list
in the error, since it may contain the patch body.

Review comments at @tests/kubernetes/helpers/kubectl.py:
- Around line 337-366: Extract the duplicated stdin subprocess execution,
timeout and cancellation handling, process termination, and return-code
validation into a private helper that accepts the built command, manifest, and
timeout. Update apply and apply_server_side_manifest to build their respective
arguments and delegate execution to that helper.

Review comments at @tests/unit/kubernetes/test_cpu_overcommit.py:
- Around line 208-212: Replace the fixed sleep and immediate
`fired_thrice.is_set()` assertion in this test with a bounded wait on
`fired_thrice`, using a generous timeout so the test tolerates a delayed daemon
thread while still verifying the expected fires without an asyncio event loop.

Review comments at @tests/unit/kubernetes/test_helm_crd_adoption.py:
- Around line 180-197: Update both normalization-guard tests to give the
rendered CRD the same schema as the live CRD, differing only in the nested value
each test checks: properties.conversion or default: None. Override helm.template
in each test to return that rendered CRD, so the tests verify that
_normalize_crd_spec detects the intended difference.

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Comment on lines +919 to +932
expected_nodes = await kind_cluster_node_names(cluster.name)
if not expected_nodes:
raise RuntimeError(
f"--k8s-node-cpu-overcommit={s.node_cpu_overcommit} was "
f"requested but 'kind get nodes --name {cluster.name}' found "
"no local Kind nodes; cannot verify patch locality, refusing "
"to fake capacity"
)
overcommit_reconciler = CpuOvercommitReconciler(
cluster.context, s.node_cpu_overcommit, expected_nodes
)
# Eager apply must succeed: without it the first benchmark pods race
# kubelet's next capacity re-assertion and may never schedule.
await asyncio.to_thread(overcommit_reconciler.start)

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Setup failures after cluster creation leak the Kind cluster.

The cluster is created or verified before this block. The block adds new setup failure points: the RuntimeError for an empty node set, and overcommit_reconciler.start raising when the eager apply fails. These points run before the try: yield at Line 934. If one of them raises, the generator exits during setup. The cleanup code after the yield never runs. The result is an orphaned Kind cluster with a random aiperf-<uuid> name. In CI, the workflow's always() step deletes it. On local and self-hosted runs, the cluster stays.

Move the overcommit setup inside the try, or register the teardown as a finalizer right after cluster creation. Then the delete and keep decisions also run when later setup steps raise.

Minimal sketch
-    overcommit_reconciler: CpuOvercommitReconciler | None = None
-    if cluster.runtime == ClusterRuntime.KIND and s.node_cpu_overcommit > 0:
-        ...
-        await asyncio.to_thread(overcommit_reconciler.start)
-
-    try:
-        yield cluster
-    finally:
-        if overcommit_reconciler is not None:
-            await asyncio.to_thread(overcommit_reconciler.stop)
+    overcommit_reconciler: CpuOvercommitReconciler | None = None
+    try:
+        if cluster.runtime == ClusterRuntime.KIND and s.node_cpu_overcommit > 0:
+            ...
+            await asyncio.to_thread(overcommit_reconciler.start)
+        yield cluster
+    finally:
+        if overcommit_reconciler is not None:
+            await asyncio.to_thread(overcommit_reconciler.stop)

If setup raises, _session_failures is empty, so the delete path runs. Record the setup failure with _record_failure first if you want keep_cluster_on_failure to retain the cluster for inspection.

Based on learnings: "Register the finalizer immediately after the resource is created during setup ... so cleanup still runs if a later setup step raises an exception."

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Review comment at @tests/kubernetes/conftest.py around lines 919 - 932:
Move the overcommit setup in the cluster fixture, including the empty-node check
and `overcommit_reconciler.start`, inside the existing `try` that yields the
cluster so its `finally` cleanup runs if setup raises. Keep the reconciler
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