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Merges the Jobs migration (#223) to main: package stages now execute as batch/v1 Jobs instead of operator-managed raw pods. 58 commits, 85 files.

The lifecycle state machine is unchanged — stages, Status/State derivation, interrupt/cordon/drain sequencing and DeploymentPolicy all behave as before. What changes is the executor, and three deliberate enhancements ride along: a per-attempt stage deadline (stageTimeout), pause becoming a true stop, and retained failure logs. Design: docs/designs/2026-07-10-package-execution-as-jobs.md.

Before merging


Manual validation evidence

Hand-run validation covering the flows a user drives, rather than the fixed shapes chainsaw asserts. Chainsaw and the unit suites run in CI on this PR as usual; this is the additional evidence.

  • Build validated: 3e3886ea. The only change since is 61b0e079, a release-notes wording fix (docs only), so the evidence stands for the branch tip.
  • Environment: kind v1.36.1 (podman), 3 nodes, one worker labelled except where noted. Operator built from the branch and run locally against the cluster — the same shape make e2e-tests uses, since no image is published for this branch.
  • Method: every case reset first (all CRs, Jobs, pods, ConfigMaps, and per-CR node annotations/labels/taints/cordons), with a baseline assertion before starting. Evidence captured mid-flight as well as at the end.
  • Runs: every case executed twice — first on 93caf2ac, then re-run end to end on 3e3886ea after main was merged in. Both runs agreed case for case, with one intended difference (case 10, below).

Results — 15 pass, 1 fail

# Case Result Evidence
1 single package pass apply then config Jobs both Complete 1/1; child pods retained and logs still readable afterwards; ttlSecondsAfterFinished: 3600 + state-recorded set at completion; no Job-level activeDeadlineSeconds
2 multiple packages + dependsOn pass 6 Jobs, exactly one per (package, stage); the dependency reached complete before its dependents started
3 erroring, retries exhausted pass failed=4 (backoffLimit: 3), BackoffLimitExceeded, TTL 86400, exactly 2 archive pods with the middle attempts pruned, no churn over 40s; editing the package deleted the terminal Job (UID changed) and the stage re-ran
4 stage timeout pass attempt killed at 20s not 600s, pod Failed/DeadlineExceeded; logs readable from the archive showing the SIGTERM; per-attempt bound 20, Job-level absent
5 multiple CRs on one node pass lower-priority CR sat waiting; per-tick sampling found no tick with unfinished Jobs from both CRs; separate nodeState_ keys, no lost writes
6 interrupt grouping pass one merged interrupt Job for two packages, node cordoned during and uncordoned after; the skipped sibling promoted to complete
7a explicit uninstall fail uninstall-stage Job ran and the entry was removed correctly, but the Job and its pod were deleted immediately on success → #443
7b CR deletion with uninstall.enabled: true pass finalizer created an uninstall Job during deletion; afterwards no nodewright.nvidia.com/* annotation or label remained, node uncordoned, namespace empty
8 TTL by outcome pass succeeded ttl=60, failed ttl=180 (short values for the test); succeeded collected first while the failed one remained; node state survived collection; replacement Job appeared after the failure TTL; sub-minute TTL rejected at startup
9 kubelet-refused attempts pass pods Failed/OutOfcpu with no container statuses; node state stayed in_progress and never erroring; observed the budget→sweep→recreate self-heal
10 pause / disable pass pause set spec.suspend: true and deleted the running pod; resume started a fresh pod; adding disable while removing pause left the Job suspended. This was the one case that changed between runs — it failed on 93caf2ac and passes on 3e3886ea, confirming #422 on a real cluster
11 config update mid-flight pass ConfigMap deliberately not swapped mid-stage (gated on all nodes complete); after completion it updated and the config stage re-ran; replacement Job carried a new resource-id
12 two nodes + interruption budget pass never more than 1 node cordoned at a time across the rollout; one interrupt Job per node
13 node deleted mid-run pass orphaned-node Job foreground-deleted 7s after the node object was removed; surviving node completed and the CR reached complete
14 disruption casualty pass evicted attempt (eviction API, so DisruptionTarget is set) left status.failed empty — no retry budget spent — replacement ran, never erroring
15 upgrade → downgrade pass upgrade ran the upgrade stage and removed the superseded entry; downgrade kept both entries, which docs/uninstall.md states is intentional for uninstall.enabled: false
16 unpullable image pass erroring after 65s with a 60s stageTimeout — bounded rather than indefinite. Baseline for #306: at the 1h default this takes an hour

Known issues shipping with this

Issue Summary
#443 A successful uninstall Job and its pod are deleted immediately, so uninstall output is unrecoverable. Every other stage is retained until its TTL; failed uninstalls are unaffected.
#449 last-logs never fires for package Jobs — it is gated on FailureTarget, which a package Job only reaches once the final attempt has already failed. Cost: an unpullable image's archive reads ContainerStatusUnknown rather than ImagePullBackOff.

Neither wedges a rollout, double-executes, or corrupts node state; both cost diagnosability.

Not covered by this validation

ayuskauskas and others added 30 commits August 5, 2026 13:43
Design companion to #223: Job shape (one Job per skyhook/package/stage/node),
completion flow with a persisted processed-once marker, outcome-based TTL,
naming/rerun rules, upgrade dual-path, and rejected alternatives incl.
podFailurePolicy for ImagePullBackOff (split to #306).

Closes #299

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>
Review (Fable, xhigh effort) found 3 blockers + 5 majors; all addressed:

- AlreadyExists is no longer blindly benign: GET; finished/mismatched Jobs
  are foreground-deleted + requeued, never Upserted as in_progress
- ValidateRunningPackages checks scoped to unfinished Jobs; finished Jobs
  cleaned only by TTL or a precise rerun predicate (protects retention)
- Upgrade window: JobExists/HasRunningPackages/validation are legacy-pod
  aware to prevent duplicate executors and premature interrupts
- not-ready/unreachable NoExecute tolerations so slow reboots don't evict
  the pod and fail the Job (backoffLimit: 0)
- Failed (disruption) Jobs no longer write erroring: silent re-execution,
  keeping DeploymentPolicy failure counting unchanged
- Crash-window claim corrected + stage-progress re-processing guard
- Child-pod fallback for GC'd pods; package annotation on pod template
- HandleConfigUpdates added to blast radius (delete Job, not child pod)
- Interrupt Job name formula kept; metrics dead-code note; namespace-scoped
  Jobs informer; node-label length fallback; podReplacementPolicy rationale

Also: TTL knobs named as chart values controllerManager.manager.env.jobTtl*
Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>
…ndings

The load-bearing correction (CodeRabbit, confirmed against Job controller
semantics): with restartPolicy: OnFailure the Job controller counts the sum
of container restarts (init containers included) toward backoffLimit and
terminates the pod at the limit — backoffLimit: 0 would kill a package on
its first step retry. backoffLimit is now effectively unlimited
(math.MaxInt32); retry ownership stays with kubelet in-place restarts, pod
loss self-heals via the Job controller's replacement pod (nodeName-pinned
template), and Job Failed becomes a backstop-only branch.

Also, from CodeRabbit + a second adversarial review pass:

- AlreadyExists must never delete a Complete-but-unrecorded Job (requeue;
  JobReconcile owns unprocessed completions)
- child pods selected by batch.kubernetes.io/controller-uid, not job-name
- containerName GC-fallback defined (interrupt label determines it)
- Failed-path marker/TTL write specified; node-NotFound completion handling
- postcondition guard now enumerates the interrupt/ProgressSkipped case
- HasRunningPackages defined over unfinished Jobs (pod-based reading would
  stall interrupts behind retained Succeeded pods for the TTL window)
- fourth legacy accommodation: HandleConfigUpdates keeps direct deletion of
  legacy erroring pods during the upgrade window
- orphaned-node sweep covers Jobs of deleted nodes regardless of status
- uninstall retention carve-outs documented; podReplacementPolicy gate-off
  wording honest; generation-label note fixed; in-flight hyphenation

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>
… log-tail snapshot

Enhancement over today's model (per review discussion): a stage that runs
past its deadline — hung, crash-looping, or unpullable — is failed and
surfaced instead of churning or hanging invisibly forever.

- New additive SCR field Package.stageTimeout (metav1.Duration, follows
  gracefulShutdown pattern) -> Job activeDeadlineSeconds; operator default
  JOB_STAGE_TIMEOUT (1h, chart controllerManager.manager.env.jobStageTimeout),
  "0" disables. The one CRD change in the migration; additive, no shim.
- DeadlineExceeded is a first-class failure: state -> erroring (new signal
  for hung stages; DeploymentPolicy sees stuck nodes), Job parked as the
  marker that stops recreation until rerun/reset/config-update or
  JOB_TTL_FAILED expiry (deliberate slow-retry cadence). Rules 2/3 gain the
  park exception; other Failed reasons stay the silent backstop.
- Log-tail snapshot: on FailureTarget (pods still terminating) the operator
  captures the stuck container's last ~16KiB via the pod-logs API into the
  skyhook.nvidia.com/last-logs Job annotation, so the parked tombstone stays
  debuggable after the deadline deletes the pod. Best-effort, never blocks
  the park path. Needs pods/log get RBAC + a client-go clientset seam in dal.
- Honest caveat retained: full post-deadline container logs live in
  SKYHOOK_LOG_DIR host logs / log aggregation.
- Rejected alternative documented: restartPolicy Never + small backoffLimit
  (retains failed pods but can't catch hangs, changes retry substrate).

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>
Second deliberate enhancement: skyhook.nvidia.com/pause now halts in-flight
stages instead of letting them finish. UpdatePauseStatus sets spec.suspend
on the Skyhook's unfinished Jobs (annotation stays the user-facing
primitive; suspension is enforcement). SIGTERM mid-step is the same
recovery shape as reboot/eviction — agent flag files skip completed steps
on resume. Suspension clears/resets Job startTime, so the stage deadline
stops ticking while paused and resets fresh on resume — closing the bad
interaction where a paused-but-running stage could hit its deadline and
park as erroring. Suspended Jobs stay unfinished for JobExists/validation;
interrupts that already fired a reboot converge via the resource-id flag;
legacy pods keep let-finish semantics during the upgrade window (CLI docs
must note the version-dependent strength). disable is unchanged. Replaces
the earlier 'Rejected: suspend as pause primitive' section — the
no-checkpointing cost is now accepted deliberately.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>
…attempt archive

Reworks the retry substrate (maintainer direction + review pass 3):

- Package/stage Jobs: restartPolicy Never — each attempt is a fresh pod;
  the operator prunes Failed pods keeping ONE full-log archive (newest
  Failed without DisruptionTarget, by creationTimestamp; normal deletion
  only). kubectl logs on the last real failure works during retries, past
  the deadline, and through a pause — superseding the 16KiB snapshot for
  genuinely-failing stages (snapshot remains for hangs and never-started
  containers, now also recording Waiting reason+message, e.g.
  ImagePullBackOff + registry error).
- podFailurePolicy Ignore-on-DisruptionTarget: evictions/preemption/PodGC
  count nothing and stay silent. backoffLimit stays MaxInt32 (counts
  Failed pods under Never).
- INTERRUPT Jobs keep OnFailure (no podFailurePolicy): a reboot interrupt
  kills its own pod by design; Never would mint a spurious failed attempt
  per successful reboot.
- Erroring evidence guards: no DisruptionTarget, real terminal verdict
  (skip ContainerStatusUnknown + admission rejections), and
  DeletionTimestamp unset — pause suspension, rule deletions, sweeps and
  manual pod deletes stay silent (review pass 3 blocker).
- Resume half of the pause cascade gets an explicit owner and ordering
  (after ValidateRunningPackages; invalidate stale suspended Jobs first).
- New rule 5: REAPPLY_ON_REBOOT reset sweeps the node's Jobs regardless
  of status — pre-reboot completions must not land on reset state.
- Honest deltas documented: hard-crash 137/Error can flap erroring once;
  admission-rejected pods count attempts (replaces a worse latent wedge
  where such a raw pod satisfies PodExists forever); attempts figure now
  job.status.failed (user-visible nodeState/CLI improvement); deadline on
  an unreachable node surfaces via stale FailureTarget as erroring;
  stageTimeout "0" omits activeDeadlineSeconds; HandleConfigUpdates
  scoped to unfinished/parked Jobs; Complete path reads the Succeeded pod.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>
Address maintainer review (@lockwobr): the substance was approved but the
layering buried it. Restructure without cutting the analysis:

- add a TL;DR decision table up top so the shape reads in 60 seconds
- describe behavior by role in the narrative; move Go symbols and file
  references to a baseline section and a new References block
- drop exact constants and most inline cross-references from the prose
- collapse the defensive material (crash-window guards, hard-crash deltas,
  admission edge, erroring guards, pruner safety) into an
  'Edge cases and correctness arguments' appendix
- collapse Rejected alternatives to a table, keeping only the central
  Never-vs-OnFailure decision in full

Also fixes the meta-lint failure: the Goals list had a duplicate '4.'
(MD029/ol-prefix); it is now sequential 1-5.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>
…ct (#300) (#313)

* refactor(operator): package annotation helpers accept any client.Object

GetPackage/SetPackages/InvalidatePackage/IsInvalidPackage only ever touch an
object's annotations, but were typed to *corev1.Pod. Widen them to
client.Object (using GetAnnotations/SetAnnotations instead of the .Annotations
field) so the same package metadata can ride on batch/v1 Jobs and their pod
templates — the first step of the package-execution-as-Jobs migration (#223).

No behavior change: every call site passes a *corev1.Pod, which already
satisfies client.Object. Adds a round-trip spec proving SetPackages -> GetPackage
(and the invalidate path) behaves identically on a *batchv1.Job and a *corev1.Pod.

Part of #300.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* refactor(operator): use metav1.Object for package annotation helpers

Address review on #313:
- Widen to metav1.Object instead of client.Object. The Job pod template
  (*corev1.PodTemplateSpec) satisfies metav1.Object but not client.Object
  (it has no runtime.Object methods), and the Job builder (#301) sets the
  package annotation on job.Spec.Template. metav1.Object is also the more
  precise seam, since these helpers only ever touch metadata.
- Extract the repeated "<prefix>/package" key into a named constant.
- Add a round-trip spec covering the Job pod template.

Part of #300.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* test(operator): assert package fields and guard typed-nil in helpers

Address the follow-up review on #313:
- Guard the metadata helpers against typed-nil interface values. Widening from
  *corev1.Pod to metav1.Object weakened the original nil check — obj == nil misses
  a (*corev1.Pod)(nil) and would panic in GetAnnotations. A small isNil helper
  (reflect-based) catches both a nil interface and a typed-nil pointer; used by all
  four helpers. Adds a spec proving a typed-nil object is treated as absent.
- The round-trip spec now asserts Version/Image/ContainerSHA against the source
  package, not just cross-resource equality, so a serialization regression is caught.

Part of #300.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* fix(operator): guard nil package in InvalidatePackage/IsInvalidPackage

GetPackage returns (nil, nil) when the package annotation is absent, so
pkg.Invalid = true and return pkg.Invalid would panic for an object without
package metadata. Now that these helpers accept any metav1.Object (and Job
handling will call them on Jobs), guard nil: InvalidatePackage no-ops and
IsInvalidPackage reports false. Adds a regression spec for unannotated objects.

Addresses CodeRabbit review on #313.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(operator): recast em-dashes in package annotation comments

Repo prose style prefers colon/comma over em-dashes in doc comments (review on #313).

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

---------

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>
* docs: add design doc for package execution as Jobs

Design companion to #223: Job shape (one Job per skyhook/package/stage/node),
completion flow with a persisted processed-once marker, outcome-based TTL,
naming/rerun rules, upgrade dual-path, and rejected alternatives incl.
podFailurePolicy for ImagePullBackOff (split to #306).

Closes #299

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): address adversarial review of Jobs migration design

Review (Fable, xhigh effort) found 3 blockers + 5 majors; all addressed:

- AlreadyExists is no longer blindly benign: GET; finished/mismatched Jobs
  are foreground-deleted + requeued, never Upserted as in_progress
- ValidateRunningPackages checks scoped to unfinished Jobs; finished Jobs
  cleaned only by TTL or a precise rerun predicate (protects retention)
- Upgrade window: JobExists/HasRunningPackages/validation are legacy-pod
  aware to prevent duplicate executors and premature interrupts
- not-ready/unreachable NoExecute tolerations so slow reboots don't evict
  the pod and fail the Job (backoffLimit: 0)
- Failed (disruption) Jobs no longer write erroring: silent re-execution,
  keeping DeploymentPolicy failure counting unchanged
- Crash-window claim corrected + stage-progress re-processing guard
- Child-pod fallback for GC'd pods; package annotation on pod template
- HandleConfigUpdates added to blast radius (delete Job, not child pod)
- Interrupt Job name formula kept; metrics dead-code note; namespace-scoped
  Jobs informer; node-label length fallback; podReplacementPolicy rationale

Also: TTL knobs named as chart values controllerManager.manager.env.jobTtl*
Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): fix Job backoff model per review; address CodeRabbit findings

The load-bearing correction (CodeRabbit, confirmed against Job controller
semantics): with restartPolicy: OnFailure the Job controller counts the sum
of container restarts (init containers included) toward backoffLimit and
terminates the pod at the limit — backoffLimit: 0 would kill a package on
its first step retry. backoffLimit is now effectively unlimited
(math.MaxInt32); retry ownership stays with kubelet in-place restarts, pod
loss self-heals via the Job controller's replacement pod (nodeName-pinned
template), and Job Failed becomes a backstop-only branch.

Also, from CodeRabbit + a second adversarial review pass:

- AlreadyExists must never delete a Complete-but-unrecorded Job (requeue;
  JobReconcile owns unprocessed completions)
- child pods selected by batch.kubernetes.io/controller-uid, not job-name
- containerName GC-fallback defined (interrupt label determines it)
- Failed-path marker/TTL write specified; node-NotFound completion handling
- postcondition guard now enumerates the interrupt/ProgressSkipped case
- HasRunningPackages defined over unfinished Jobs (pod-based reading would
  stall interrupts behind retained Succeeded pods for the TTL window)
- fourth legacy accommodation: HandleConfigUpdates keeps direct deletion of
  legacy erroring pods during the upgrade window
- orphaned-node sweep covers Jobs of deleted nodes regardless of status
- uninstall retention carve-outs documented; podReplacementPolicy gate-off
  wording honest; generation-label note fixed; in-flight hyphenation

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): add per-package stage deadline with parked failures and log-tail snapshot

Enhancement over today's model (per review discussion): a stage that runs
past its deadline — hung, crash-looping, or unpullable — is failed and
surfaced instead of churning or hanging invisibly forever.

- New additive SCR field Package.stageTimeout (metav1.Duration, follows
  gracefulShutdown pattern) -> Job activeDeadlineSeconds; operator default
  JOB_STAGE_TIMEOUT (1h, chart controllerManager.manager.env.jobStageTimeout),
  "0" disables. The one CRD change in the migration; additive, no shim.
- DeadlineExceeded is a first-class failure: state -> erroring (new signal
  for hung stages; DeploymentPolicy sees stuck nodes), Job parked as the
  marker that stops recreation until rerun/reset/config-update or
  JOB_TTL_FAILED expiry (deliberate slow-retry cadence). Rules 2/3 gain the
  park exception; other Failed reasons stay the silent backstop.
- Log-tail snapshot: on FailureTarget (pods still terminating) the operator
  captures the stuck container's last ~16KiB via the pod-logs API into the
  skyhook.nvidia.com/last-logs Job annotation, so the parked tombstone stays
  debuggable after the deadline deletes the pod. Best-effort, never blocks
  the park path. Needs pods/log get RBAC + a client-go clientset seam in dal.
- Honest caveat retained: full post-deadline container logs live in
  SKYHOOK_LOG_DIR host logs / log aggregation.
- Rejected alternative documented: restartPolicy Never + small backoffLimit
  (retains failed pods but can't catch hangs, changes retry substrate).

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): pause cascades to Job suspension

Second deliberate enhancement: skyhook.nvidia.com/pause now halts in-flight
stages instead of letting them finish. UpdatePauseStatus sets spec.suspend
on the Skyhook's unfinished Jobs (annotation stays the user-facing
primitive; suspension is enforcement). SIGTERM mid-step is the same
recovery shape as reboot/eviction — agent flag files skip completed steps
on resume. Suspension clears/resets Job startTime, so the stage deadline
stops ticking while paused and resets fresh on resume — closing the bad
interaction where a paused-but-running stage could hit its deadline and
park as erroring. Suspended Jobs stay unfinished for JobExists/validation;
interrupts that already fired a reboot converge via the resource-id flag;
legacy pods keep let-finish semantics during the upgrade window (CLI docs
must note the version-dependent strength). disable is unchanged. Replaces
the earlier 'Rejected: suspend as pause primitive' section — the
no-checkpointing cost is now accepted deliberately.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): switch package Jobs to restartPolicy Never with failed-attempt archive

Reworks the retry substrate (maintainer direction + review pass 3):

- Package/stage Jobs: restartPolicy Never — each attempt is a fresh pod;
  the operator prunes Failed pods keeping ONE full-log archive (newest
  Failed without DisruptionTarget, by creationTimestamp; normal deletion
  only). kubectl logs on the last real failure works during retries, past
  the deadline, and through a pause — superseding the 16KiB snapshot for
  genuinely-failing stages (snapshot remains for hangs and never-started
  containers, now also recording Waiting reason+message, e.g.
  ImagePullBackOff + registry error).
- podFailurePolicy Ignore-on-DisruptionTarget: evictions/preemption/PodGC
  count nothing and stay silent. backoffLimit stays MaxInt32 (counts
  Failed pods under Never).
- INTERRUPT Jobs keep OnFailure (no podFailurePolicy): a reboot interrupt
  kills its own pod by design; Never would mint a spurious failed attempt
  per successful reboot.
- Erroring evidence guards: no DisruptionTarget, real terminal verdict
  (skip ContainerStatusUnknown + admission rejections), and
  DeletionTimestamp unset — pause suspension, rule deletions, sweeps and
  manual pod deletes stay silent (review pass 3 blocker).
- Resume half of the pause cascade gets an explicit owner and ordering
  (after ValidateRunningPackages; invalidate stale suspended Jobs first).
- New rule 5: REAPPLY_ON_REBOOT reset sweeps the node's Jobs regardless
  of status — pre-reboot completions must not land on reset state.
- Honest deltas documented: hard-crash 137/Error can flap erroring once;
  admission-rejected pods count attempts (replaces a worse latent wedge
  where such a raw pod satisfies PodExists forever); attempts figure now
  job.status.failed (user-visible nodeState/CLI improvement); deadline on
  an unreachable node surfaces via stale FailureTarget as erroring;
  stageTimeout "0" omits activeDeadlineSeconds; HandleConfigUpdates
  scoped to unfinished/parked Jobs; Complete path reads the Succeeded pod.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): restructure Jobs migration doc for readability

Address maintainer review (@lockwobr): the substance was approved but the
layering buried it. Restructure without cutting the analysis:

- add a TL;DR decision table up top so the shape reads in 60 seconds
- describe behavior by role in the narrative; move Go symbols and file
  references to a baseline section and a new References block
- drop exact constants and most inline cross-references from the prose
- collapse the defensive material (crash-window guards, hard-crash deltas,
  admission edge, erroring guards, pruner safety) into an
  'Edge cases and correctness arguments' appendix
- collapse Rejected alternatives to a table, keeping only the central
  Never-vs-OnFailure decision in full

Also fixes the meta-lint failure: the Goals list had a duplicate '4.'
(MD029/ol-prefix); it is now sequential 1-5.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* refactor(operator): package annotation helpers accept any client.Object

GetPackage/SetPackages/InvalidatePackage/IsInvalidPackage only ever touch an
object's annotations, but were typed to *corev1.Pod. Widen them to
client.Object (using GetAnnotations/SetAnnotations instead of the .Annotations
field) so the same package metadata can ride on batch/v1 Jobs and their pod
templates — the first step of the package-execution-as-Jobs migration (#223).

No behavior change: every call site passes a *corev1.Pod, which already
satisfies client.Object. Adds a round-trip spec proving SetPackages -> GetPackage
(and the invalidate path) behaves identically on a *batchv1.Job and a *corev1.Pod.

Part of #300.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* refactor(operator): use metav1.Object for package annotation helpers

Address review on #313:
- Widen to metav1.Object instead of client.Object. The Job pod template
  (*corev1.PodTemplateSpec) satisfies metav1.Object but not client.Object
  (it has no runtime.Object methods), and the Job builder (#301) sets the
  package annotation on job.Spec.Template. metav1.Object is also the more
  precise seam, since these helpers only ever touch metadata.
- Extract the repeated "<prefix>/package" key into a named constant.
- Add a round-trip spec covering the Job pod template.

Part of #300.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* test(operator): assert package fields and guard typed-nil in helpers

Address the follow-up review on #313:
- Guard the metadata helpers against typed-nil interface values. Widening from
  *corev1.Pod to metav1.Object weakened the original nil check — obj == nil misses
  a (*corev1.Pod)(nil) and would panic in GetAnnotations. A small isNil helper
  (reflect-based) catches both a nil interface and a typed-nil pointer; used by all
  four helpers. Adds a spec proving a typed-nil object is treated as absent.
- The round-trip spec now asserts Version/Image/ContainerSHA against the source
  package, not just cross-resource equality, so a serialization regression is caught.

Part of #300.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* fix(operator): guard nil package in InvalidatePackage/IsInvalidPackage

GetPackage returns (nil, nil) when the package annotation is absent, so
pkg.Invalid = true and return pkg.Invalid would panic for an object without
package metadata. Now that these helpers accept any metav1.Object (and Job
handling will call them on Jobs), guard nil: InvalidatePackage no-ops and
IsInvalidPackage reports false. Adds a regression spec for unannotated objects.

Addresses CodeRabbit review on #313.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(operator): recast em-dashes in package annotation comments

Repo prose style prefers colon/comma over em-dashes in doc comments (review on #313).

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* feat(operator): add Job builders and stage-timeout/TTL options (#301)

Adds the batch/v1 Job builders for the package-execution-as-Jobs migration, not
yet wired into reconcile (ApplyPackage/Interrupt still create raw pods until #303).

- job_builder.go: createJobFromPackage / createInterruptJobFromPackage. Each wraps
  the pod the operator builds today (createPodFromPackage / createInterruptPodForPackage)
  so the executor shape can't drift, then applies the Job differences: the forever
  pause container becomes an exit-0 container so the pod can reach Succeeded;
  package Jobs use restartPolicy Never + effectively-unlimited backoffLimit +
  podFailurePolicy Ignore-on-DisruptionTarget (disruptions stay silent); interrupt
  Jobs keep OnFailure with no podFailurePolicy; podReplacementPolicy Failed;
  ttlSecondsAfterFinished unset at creation; unbounded not-ready/unreachable NoExecute
  tolerations; labels name/package/stage/node/generation (+interrupt) on the Job and
  its pod template, full resource-id as an annotation, node label hashed for long names.
- CRD: additive Package.stageTimeout (*metav1.Duration) -> Job activeDeadlineSeconds
  (package value else JOB_STAGE_TIMEOUT default; 0 omits the deadline). Added to the
  legacy source and regenerated into the nodewright group; webhook validation
  (non-negative); conversion + zero-value-guard fixture; chart CRD mirror.
- Options: JOB_TTL_SUCCEEDED (1h) / JOB_TTL_FAILED (24h) / JOB_STAGE_TIMEOUT (1h)
  with Validate() floors (TTLs >= 1m, stage timeout >= 0).
- Extracted pauseContainerName/interruptLabelValue/shellBinary constants (goconst).

No prod behavior change; the field/options/builders are consumed starting in #303.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* fix(operator): round up stage deadline; add admission and edge tests

Adversarial review follow-up on #301:
- activeDeadlineSeconds now rounds up via math.Ceil. A positive sub-second
  stageTimeout (e.g. 500ms, reachable since the webhook only rejects < 0)
  truncated with int64(d.Seconds()) to 0 — and activeDeadlineSeconds: 0
  insta-fails every Job, so the package could never complete. Any positive
  timeout now yields at least a 1s deadline.
- Tests: sub-second stageTimeout (=> 1s); gracefulShutdown + imagePullSecret
  carry-through to the pod template; interrupt Job activeDeadlineSeconds; and an
  envtest that Creates both Job kinds against the apiserver, validating the
  podFailurePolicy x restartPolicy x podReplacementPolicy x activeDeadlineSeconds
  field combinations that struct-level tests can't see admission for.

The reviewer's second flag (Never + MaxInt32 vs the design's OnFailure/backoffLimit:0)
was a false positive: that quotes the superseded pre-rework model. This implements
the final approved design (Never + failed-attempt archive + Ignore-on-DisruptionTarget).

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* chore(chart): mirror stageTimeout into the nodewright CRD

The rebased fix/api-rename base now ships chart/templates/nodewright-crd.yaml
(the nodewright.nvidia.com CRD chart mirror). The package stageTimeout field
added in this series must appear there too, alongside the existing mirror into
chart/templates/skyhook-crd.yaml.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* refactor(operator): author new API fields in the nodewright group only (#301)

The nodewright group was a schema-frozen textual-rename mirror of the legacy skyhook
types (gen_nodewright.sh), so new fields had to be added to the deprecated skyhook API
and mirrored across. That guard only has value during the rename bridge; the skyhook
group is removed next release. Retire the mirror so new API surface lands on nodewright
only (review: lockwobr on #316):

- delete scripts/gen_nodewright.sh; drop generate-nodewright from the manifests/generate
  prereqs and remove the generate-nodewright and verify-nodewright-gen make targets;
- un-generate the nodewright group (drop the gen_nodewright DO-NOT-EDIT markers from its
  5 source files; deepcopy and CRDs stay controller-gen-owned);
- remove Package.stageTimeout from the legacy skyhook API (types, webhook, webhook test,
  conversion + its test, skyhook CRD, chart skyhook-crd.yaml) and keep it native in the
  nodewright API. job_builder.go already reads the nodewright field, so no behavior change.

Also recast em-dashes in job_builder.go doc comments per repo prose style.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* test(operator): set Job TTL options in the legacy-workload migration test

The Job builders (#301) add JobTTLSucceeded/JobTTLFailed validation to
SkyhookOperatorOptions; the legacy-workload migration test (from the rename)
must set them or NewSkyhookReconciler rejects the options.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs: add design doc for package execution as Jobs

Design companion to #223: Job shape (one Job per skyhook/package/stage/node),
completion flow with a persisted processed-once marker, outcome-based TTL,
naming/rerun rules, upgrade dual-path, and rejected alternatives incl.
podFailurePolicy for ImagePullBackOff (split to #306).

Closes #299

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): address adversarial review of Jobs migration design

Review (Fable, xhigh effort) found 3 blockers + 5 majors; all addressed:

- AlreadyExists is no longer blindly benign: GET; finished/mismatched Jobs
  are foreground-deleted + requeued, never Upserted as in_progress
- ValidateRunningPackages checks scoped to unfinished Jobs; finished Jobs
  cleaned only by TTL or a precise rerun predicate (protects retention)
- Upgrade window: JobExists/HasRunningPackages/validation are legacy-pod
  aware to prevent duplicate executors and premature interrupts
- not-ready/unreachable NoExecute tolerations so slow reboots don't evict
  the pod and fail the Job (backoffLimit: 0)
- Failed (disruption) Jobs no longer write erroring: silent re-execution,
  keeping DeploymentPolicy failure counting unchanged
- Crash-window claim corrected + stage-progress re-processing guard
- Child-pod fallback for GC'd pods; package annotation on pod template
- HandleConfigUpdates added to blast radius (delete Job, not child pod)
- Interrupt Job name formula kept; metrics dead-code note; namespace-scoped
  Jobs informer; node-label length fallback; podReplacementPolicy rationale

Also: TTL knobs named as chart values controllerManager.manager.env.jobTtl*
Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): fix Job backoff model per review; address CodeRabbit findings

The load-bearing correction (CodeRabbit, confirmed against Job controller
semantics): with restartPolicy: OnFailure the Job controller counts the sum
of container restarts (init containers included) toward backoffLimit and
terminates the pod at the limit — backoffLimit: 0 would kill a package on
its first step retry. backoffLimit is now effectively unlimited
(math.MaxInt32); retry ownership stays with kubelet in-place restarts, pod
loss self-heals via the Job controller's replacement pod (nodeName-pinned
template), and Job Failed becomes a backstop-only branch.

Also, from CodeRabbit + a second adversarial review pass:

- AlreadyExists must never delete a Complete-but-unrecorded Job (requeue;
  JobReconcile owns unprocessed completions)
- child pods selected by batch.kubernetes.io/controller-uid, not job-name
- containerName GC-fallback defined (interrupt label determines it)
- Failed-path marker/TTL write specified; node-NotFound completion handling
- postcondition guard now enumerates the interrupt/ProgressSkipped case
- HasRunningPackages defined over unfinished Jobs (pod-based reading would
  stall interrupts behind retained Succeeded pods for the TTL window)
- fourth legacy accommodation: HandleConfigUpdates keeps direct deletion of
  legacy erroring pods during the upgrade window
- orphaned-node sweep covers Jobs of deleted nodes regardless of status
- uninstall retention carve-outs documented; podReplacementPolicy gate-off
  wording honest; generation-label note fixed; in-flight hyphenation

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): add per-package stage deadline with parked failures and log-tail snapshot

Enhancement over today's model (per review discussion): a stage that runs
past its deadline — hung, crash-looping, or unpullable — is failed and
surfaced instead of churning or hanging invisibly forever.

- New additive SCR field Package.stageTimeout (metav1.Duration, follows
  gracefulShutdown pattern) -> Job activeDeadlineSeconds; operator default
  JOB_STAGE_TIMEOUT (1h, chart controllerManager.manager.env.jobStageTimeout),
  "0" disables. The one CRD change in the migration; additive, no shim.
- DeadlineExceeded is a first-class failure: state -> erroring (new signal
  for hung stages; DeploymentPolicy sees stuck nodes), Job parked as the
  marker that stops recreation until rerun/reset/config-update or
  JOB_TTL_FAILED expiry (deliberate slow-retry cadence). Rules 2/3 gain the
  park exception; other Failed reasons stay the silent backstop.
- Log-tail snapshot: on FailureTarget (pods still terminating) the operator
  captures the stuck container's last ~16KiB via the pod-logs API into the
  skyhook.nvidia.com/last-logs Job annotation, so the parked tombstone stays
  debuggable after the deadline deletes the pod. Best-effort, never blocks
  the park path. Needs pods/log get RBAC + a client-go clientset seam in dal.
- Honest caveat retained: full post-deadline container logs live in
  SKYHOOK_LOG_DIR host logs / log aggregation.
- Rejected alternative documented: restartPolicy Never + small backoffLimit
  (retains failed pods but can't catch hangs, changes retry substrate).

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): pause cascades to Job suspension

Second deliberate enhancement: skyhook.nvidia.com/pause now halts in-flight
stages instead of letting them finish. UpdatePauseStatus sets spec.suspend
on the Skyhook's unfinished Jobs (annotation stays the user-facing
primitive; suspension is enforcement). SIGTERM mid-step is the same
recovery shape as reboot/eviction — agent flag files skip completed steps
on resume. Suspension clears/resets Job startTime, so the stage deadline
stops ticking while paused and resets fresh on resume — closing the bad
interaction where a paused-but-running stage could hit its deadline and
park as erroring. Suspended Jobs stay unfinished for JobExists/validation;
interrupts that already fired a reboot converge via the resource-id flag;
legacy pods keep let-finish semantics during the upgrade window (CLI docs
must note the version-dependent strength). disable is unchanged. Replaces
the earlier 'Rejected: suspend as pause primitive' section — the
no-checkpointing cost is now accepted deliberately.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): switch package Jobs to restartPolicy Never with failed-attempt archive

Reworks the retry substrate (maintainer direction + review pass 3):

- Package/stage Jobs: restartPolicy Never — each attempt is a fresh pod;
  the operator prunes Failed pods keeping ONE full-log archive (newest
  Failed without DisruptionTarget, by creationTimestamp; normal deletion
  only). kubectl logs on the last real failure works during retries, past
  the deadline, and through a pause — superseding the 16KiB snapshot for
  genuinely-failing stages (snapshot remains for hangs and never-started
  containers, now also recording Waiting reason+message, e.g.
  ImagePullBackOff + registry error).
- podFailurePolicy Ignore-on-DisruptionTarget: evictions/preemption/PodGC
  count nothing and stay silent. backoffLimit stays MaxInt32 (counts
  Failed pods under Never).
- INTERRUPT Jobs keep OnFailure (no podFailurePolicy): a reboot interrupt
  kills its own pod by design; Never would mint a spurious failed attempt
  per successful reboot.
- Erroring evidence guards: no DisruptionTarget, real terminal verdict
  (skip ContainerStatusUnknown + admission rejections), and
  DeletionTimestamp unset — pause suspension, rule deletions, sweeps and
  manual pod deletes stay silent (review pass 3 blocker).
- Resume half of the pause cascade gets an explicit owner and ordering
  (after ValidateRunningPackages; invalidate stale suspended Jobs first).
- New rule 5: REAPPLY_ON_REBOOT reset sweeps the node's Jobs regardless
  of status — pre-reboot completions must not land on reset state.
- Honest deltas documented: hard-crash 137/Error can flap erroring once;
  admission-rejected pods count attempts (replaces a worse latent wedge
  where such a raw pod satisfies PodExists forever); attempts figure now
  job.status.failed (user-visible nodeState/CLI improvement); deadline on
  an unreachable node surfaces via stale FailureTarget as erroring;
  stageTimeout "0" omits activeDeadlineSeconds; HandleConfigUpdates
  scoped to unfinished/parked Jobs; Complete path reads the Succeeded pod.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): restructure Jobs migration doc for readability

Address maintainer review (@lockwobr): the substance was approved but the
layering buried it. Restructure without cutting the analysis:

- add a TL;DR decision table up top so the shape reads in 60 seconds
- describe behavior by role in the narrative; move Go symbols and file
  references to a baseline section and a new References block
- drop exact constants and most inline cross-references from the prose
- collapse the defensive material (crash-window guards, hard-crash deltas,
  admission edge, erroring guards, pruner safety) into an
  'Edge cases and correctness arguments' appendix
- collapse Rejected alternatives to a table, keeping only the central
  Never-vs-OnFailure decision in full

Also fixes the meta-lint failure: the Goals list had a duplicate '4.'
(MD029/ol-prefix); it is now sequential 1-5.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* refactor(operator): package annotation helpers accept any client.Object (#300) (#313)

* refactor(operator): package annotation helpers accept any client.Object

GetPackage/SetPackages/InvalidatePackage/IsInvalidPackage only ever touch an
object's annotations, but were typed to *corev1.Pod. Widen them to
client.Object (using GetAnnotations/SetAnnotations instead of the .Annotations
field) so the same package metadata can ride on batch/v1 Jobs and their pod
templates — the first step of the package-execution-as-Jobs migration (#223).

No behavior change: every call site passes a *corev1.Pod, which already
satisfies client.Object. Adds a round-trip spec proving SetPackages -> GetPackage
(and the invalidate path) behaves identically on a *batchv1.Job and a *corev1.Pod.

Part of #300.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* refactor(operator): use metav1.Object for package annotation helpers

Address review on #313:
- Widen to metav1.Object instead of client.Object. The Job pod template
  (*corev1.PodTemplateSpec) satisfies metav1.Object but not client.Object
  (it has no runtime.Object methods), and the Job builder (#301) sets the
  package annotation on job.Spec.Template. metav1.Object is also the more
  precise seam, since these helpers only ever touch metadata.
- Extract the repeated "<prefix>/package" key into a named constant.
- Add a round-trip spec covering the Job pod template.

Part of #300.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* test(operator): assert package fields and guard typed-nil in helpers

Address the follow-up review on #313:
- Guard the metadata helpers against typed-nil interface values. Widening from
  *corev1.Pod to metav1.Object weakened the original nil check — obj == nil misses
  a (*corev1.Pod)(nil) and would panic in GetAnnotations. A small isNil helper
  (reflect-based) catches both a nil interface and a typed-nil pointer; used by all
  four helpers. Adds a spec proving a typed-nil object is treated as absent.
- The round-trip spec now asserts Version/Image/ContainerSHA against the source
  package, not just cross-resource equality, so a serialization regression is caught.

Part of #300.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* fix(operator): guard nil package in InvalidatePackage/IsInvalidPackage

GetPackage returns (nil, nil) when the package annotation is absent, so
pkg.Invalid = true and return pkg.Invalid would panic for an object without
package metadata. Now that these helpers accept any metav1.Object (and Job
handling will call them on Jobs), guard nil: InvalidatePackage no-ops and
IsInvalidPackage reports false. Adds a regression spec for unannotated objects.

Addresses CodeRabbit review on #313.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(operator): recast em-dashes in package annotation comments

Repo prose style prefers colon/comma over em-dashes in doc comments (review on #313).

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

---------

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* refactor(operator): consolidate pod builders and tests into job_builder

Move createPodFromPackage, createInterruptPodForPackage, and
podMatchesPackage out of skyhook_controller.go into job_builder.go, and
relocate their specs from skyhook_controller_test.go into
job_builder_test.go so the builders and their tests live together.

Add coverage for the image-pull-secret-set path on both builders, the
graceful-shutdown to terminationGracePeriodSeconds mapping, and the
interrupt pod name/label/root-mount shape.

Signed-off-by: Brian Lockwood <lockwobr@gmail.com>

---------

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Lockwood <lockwobr@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Brian Lockwood <lockwobr@gmail.com>
…318)

* docs: add design doc for package execution as Jobs

Design companion to #223: Job shape (one Job per skyhook/package/stage/node),
completion flow with a persisted processed-once marker, outcome-based TTL,
naming/rerun rules, upgrade dual-path, and rejected alternatives incl.
podFailurePolicy for ImagePullBackOff (split to #306).

Closes #299

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): address adversarial review of Jobs migration design

Review (Fable, xhigh effort) found 3 blockers + 5 majors; all addressed:

- AlreadyExists is no longer blindly benign: GET; finished/mismatched Jobs
  are foreground-deleted + requeued, never Upserted as in_progress
- ValidateRunningPackages checks scoped to unfinished Jobs; finished Jobs
  cleaned only by TTL or a precise rerun predicate (protects retention)
- Upgrade window: JobExists/HasRunningPackages/validation are legacy-pod
  aware to prevent duplicate executors and premature interrupts
- not-ready/unreachable NoExecute tolerations so slow reboots don't evict
  the pod and fail the Job (backoffLimit: 0)
- Failed (disruption) Jobs no longer write erroring: silent re-execution,
  keeping DeploymentPolicy failure counting unchanged
- Crash-window claim corrected + stage-progress re-processing guard
- Child-pod fallback for GC'd pods; package annotation on pod template
- HandleConfigUpdates added to blast radius (delete Job, not child pod)
- Interrupt Job name formula kept; metrics dead-code note; namespace-scoped
  Jobs informer; node-label length fallback; podReplacementPolicy rationale

Also: TTL knobs named as chart values controllerManager.manager.env.jobTtl*
Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): fix Job backoff model per review; address CodeRabbit findings

The load-bearing correction (CodeRabbit, confirmed against Job controller
semantics): with restartPolicy: OnFailure the Job controller counts the sum
of container restarts (init containers included) toward backoffLimit and
terminates the pod at the limit — backoffLimit: 0 would kill a package on
its first step retry. backoffLimit is now effectively unlimited
(math.MaxInt32); retry ownership stays with kubelet in-place restarts, pod
loss self-heals via the Job controller's replacement pod (nodeName-pinned
template), and Job Failed becomes a backstop-only branch.

Also, from CodeRabbit + a second adversarial review pass:

- AlreadyExists must never delete a Complete-but-unrecorded Job (requeue;
  JobReconcile owns unprocessed completions)
- child pods selected by batch.kubernetes.io/controller-uid, not job-name
- containerName GC-fallback defined (interrupt label determines it)
- Failed-path marker/TTL write specified; node-NotFound completion handling
- postcondition guard now enumerates the interrupt/ProgressSkipped case
- HasRunningPackages defined over unfinished Jobs (pod-based reading would
  stall interrupts behind retained Succeeded pods for the TTL window)
- fourth legacy accommodation: HandleConfigUpdates keeps direct deletion of
  legacy erroring pods during the upgrade window
- orphaned-node sweep covers Jobs of deleted nodes regardless of status
- uninstall retention carve-outs documented; podReplacementPolicy gate-off
  wording honest; generation-label note fixed; in-flight hyphenation

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): add per-package stage deadline with parked failures and log-tail snapshot

Enhancement over today's model (per review discussion): a stage that runs
past its deadline — hung, crash-looping, or unpullable — is failed and
surfaced instead of churning or hanging invisibly forever.

- New additive SCR field Package.stageTimeout (metav1.Duration, follows
  gracefulShutdown pattern) -> Job activeDeadlineSeconds; operator default
  JOB_STAGE_TIMEOUT (1h, chart controllerManager.manager.env.jobStageTimeout),
  "0" disables. The one CRD change in the migration; additive, no shim.
- DeadlineExceeded is a first-class failure: state -> erroring (new signal
  for hung stages; DeploymentPolicy sees stuck nodes), Job parked as the
  marker that stops recreation until rerun/reset/config-update or
  JOB_TTL_FAILED expiry (deliberate slow-retry cadence). Rules 2/3 gain the
  park exception; other Failed reasons stay the silent backstop.
- Log-tail snapshot: on FailureTarget (pods still terminating) the operator
  captures the stuck container's last ~16KiB via the pod-logs API into the
  skyhook.nvidia.com/last-logs Job annotation, so the parked tombstone stays
  debuggable after the deadline deletes the pod. Best-effort, never blocks
  the park path. Needs pods/log get RBAC + a client-go clientset seam in dal.
- Honest caveat retained: full post-deadline container logs live in
  SKYHOOK_LOG_DIR host logs / log aggregation.
- Rejected alternative documented: restartPolicy Never + small backoffLimit
  (retains failed pods but can't catch hangs, changes retry substrate).

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): pause cascades to Job suspension

Second deliberate enhancement: skyhook.nvidia.com/pause now halts in-flight
stages instead of letting them finish. UpdatePauseStatus sets spec.suspend
on the Skyhook's unfinished Jobs (annotation stays the user-facing
primitive; suspension is enforcement). SIGTERM mid-step is the same
recovery shape as reboot/eviction — agent flag files skip completed steps
on resume. Suspension clears/resets Job startTime, so the stage deadline
stops ticking while paused and resets fresh on resume — closing the bad
interaction where a paused-but-running stage could hit its deadline and
park as erroring. Suspended Jobs stay unfinished for JobExists/validation;
interrupts that already fired a reboot converge via the resource-id flag;
legacy pods keep let-finish semantics during the upgrade window (CLI docs
must note the version-dependent strength). disable is unchanged. Replaces
the earlier 'Rejected: suspend as pause primitive' section — the
no-checkpointing cost is now accepted deliberately.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): switch package Jobs to restartPolicy Never with failed-attempt archive

Reworks the retry substrate (maintainer direction + review pass 3):

- Package/stage Jobs: restartPolicy Never — each attempt is a fresh pod;
  the operator prunes Failed pods keeping ONE full-log archive (newest
  Failed without DisruptionTarget, by creationTimestamp; normal deletion
  only). kubectl logs on the last real failure works during retries, past
  the deadline, and through a pause — superseding the 16KiB snapshot for
  genuinely-failing stages (snapshot remains for hangs and never-started
  containers, now also recording Waiting reason+message, e.g.
  ImagePullBackOff + registry error).
- podFailurePolicy Ignore-on-DisruptionTarget: evictions/preemption/PodGC
  count nothing and stay silent. backoffLimit stays MaxInt32 (counts
  Failed pods under Never).
- INTERRUPT Jobs keep OnFailure (no podFailurePolicy): a reboot interrupt
  kills its own pod by design; Never would mint a spurious failed attempt
  per successful reboot.
- Erroring evidence guards: no DisruptionTarget, real terminal verdict
  (skip ContainerStatusUnknown + admission rejections), and
  DeletionTimestamp unset — pause suspension, rule deletions, sweeps and
  manual pod deletes stay silent (review pass 3 blocker).
- Resume half of the pause cascade gets an explicit owner and ordering
  (after ValidateRunningPackages; invalidate stale suspended Jobs first).
- New rule 5: REAPPLY_ON_REBOOT reset sweeps the node's Jobs regardless
  of status — pre-reboot completions must not land on reset state.
- Honest deltas documented: hard-crash 137/Error can flap erroring once;
  admission-rejected pods count attempts (replaces a worse latent wedge
  where such a raw pod satisfies PodExists forever); attempts figure now
  job.status.failed (user-visible nodeState/CLI improvement); deadline on
  an unreachable node surfaces via stale FailureTarget as erroring;
  stageTimeout "0" omits activeDeadlineSeconds; HandleConfigUpdates
  scoped to unfinished/parked Jobs; Complete path reads the Succeeded pod.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): restructure Jobs migration doc for readability

Address maintainer review (@lockwobr): the substance was approved but the
layering buried it. Restructure without cutting the analysis:

- add a TL;DR decision table up top so the shape reads in 60 seconds
- describe behavior by role in the narrative; move Go symbols and file
  references to a baseline section and a new References block
- drop exact constants and most inline cross-references from the prose
- collapse the defensive material (crash-window guards, hard-crash deltas,
  admission edge, erroring guards, pruner safety) into an
  'Edge cases and correctness arguments' appendix
- collapse Rejected alternatives to a table, keeping only the central
  Never-vs-OnFailure decision in full

Also fixes the meta-lint failure: the Goals list had a duplicate '4.'
(MD029/ol-prefix); it is now sequential 1-5.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* refactor(operator): package annotation helpers accept any client.Object

GetPackage/SetPackages/InvalidatePackage/IsInvalidPackage only ever touch an
object's annotations, but were typed to *corev1.Pod. Widen them to
client.Object (using GetAnnotations/SetAnnotations instead of the .Annotations
field) so the same package metadata can ride on batch/v1 Jobs and their pod
templates — the first step of the package-execution-as-Jobs migration (#223).

No behavior change: every call site passes a *corev1.Pod, which already
satisfies client.Object. Adds a round-trip spec proving SetPackages -> GetPackage
(and the invalidate path) behaves identically on a *batchv1.Job and a *corev1.Pod.

Part of #300.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* refactor(operator): use metav1.Object for package annotation helpers

Address review on #313:
- Widen to metav1.Object instead of client.Object. The Job pod template
  (*corev1.PodTemplateSpec) satisfies metav1.Object but not client.Object
  (it has no runtime.Object methods), and the Job builder (#301) sets the
  package annotation on job.Spec.Template. metav1.Object is also the more
  precise seam, since these helpers only ever touch metadata.
- Extract the repeated "<prefix>/package" key into a named constant.
- Add a round-trip spec covering the Job pod template.

Part of #300.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* test(operator): assert package fields and guard typed-nil in helpers

Address the follow-up review on #313:
- Guard the metadata helpers against typed-nil interface values. Widening from
  *corev1.Pod to metav1.Object weakened the original nil check — obj == nil misses
  a (*corev1.Pod)(nil) and would panic in GetAnnotations. A small isNil helper
  (reflect-based) catches both a nil interface and a typed-nil pointer; used by all
  four helpers. Adds a spec proving a typed-nil object is treated as absent.
- The round-trip spec now asserts Version/Image/ContainerSHA against the source
  package, not just cross-resource equality, so a serialization regression is caught.

Part of #300.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* fix(operator): guard nil package in InvalidatePackage/IsInvalidPackage

GetPackage returns (nil, nil) when the package annotation is absent, so
pkg.Invalid = true and return pkg.Invalid would panic for an object without
package metadata. Now that these helpers accept any metav1.Object (and Job
handling will call them on Jobs), guard nil: InvalidatePackage no-ops and
IsInvalidPackage reports false. Adds a regression spec for unannotated objects.

Addresses CodeRabbit review on #313.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(operator): recast em-dashes in package annotation comments

Repo prose style prefers colon/comma over em-dashes in doc comments (review on #313).

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* feat(operator): add Job builders and stage-timeout/TTL options (#301)

Adds the batch/v1 Job builders for the package-execution-as-Jobs migration, not
yet wired into reconcile (ApplyPackage/Interrupt still create raw pods until #303).

- job_builder.go: createJobFromPackage / createInterruptJobFromPackage. Each wraps
  the pod the operator builds today (createPodFromPackage / createInterruptPodForPackage)
  so the executor shape can't drift, then applies the Job differences: the forever
  pause container becomes an exit-0 container so the pod can reach Succeeded;
  package Jobs use restartPolicy Never + effectively-unlimited backoffLimit +
  podFailurePolicy Ignore-on-DisruptionTarget (disruptions stay silent); interrupt
  Jobs keep OnFailure with no podFailurePolicy; podReplacementPolicy Failed;
  ttlSecondsAfterFinished unset at creation; unbounded not-ready/unreachable NoExecute
  tolerations; labels name/package/stage/node/generation (+interrupt) on the Job and
  its pod template, full resource-id as an annotation, node label hashed for long names.
- CRD: additive Package.stageTimeout (*metav1.Duration) -> Job activeDeadlineSeconds
  (package value else JOB_STAGE_TIMEOUT default; 0 omits the deadline). Added to the
  legacy source and regenerated into the nodewright group; webhook validation
  (non-negative); conversion + zero-value-guard fixture; chart CRD mirror.
- Options: JOB_TTL_SUCCEEDED (1h) / JOB_TTL_FAILED (24h) / JOB_STAGE_TIMEOUT (1h)
  with Validate() floors (TTLs >= 1m, stage timeout >= 0).
- Extracted pauseContainerName/interruptLabelValue/shellBinary constants (goconst).

No prod behavior change; the field/options/builders are consumed starting in #303.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* fix(operator): round up stage deadline; add admission and edge tests

Adversarial review follow-up on #301:
- activeDeadlineSeconds now rounds up via math.Ceil. A positive sub-second
  stageTimeout (e.g. 500ms, reachable since the webhook only rejects < 0)
  truncated with int64(d.Seconds()) to 0 — and activeDeadlineSeconds: 0
  insta-fails every Job, so the package could never complete. Any positive
  timeout now yields at least a 1s deadline.
- Tests: sub-second stageTimeout (=> 1s); gracefulShutdown + imagePullSecret
  carry-through to the pod template; interrupt Job activeDeadlineSeconds; and an
  envtest that Creates both Job kinds against the apiserver, validating the
  podFailurePolicy x restartPolicy x podReplacementPolicy x activeDeadlineSeconds
  field combinations that struct-level tests can't see admission for.

The reviewer's second flag (Never + MaxInt32 vs the design's OnFailure/backoffLimit:0)
was a false positive: that quotes the superseded pre-rework model. This implements
the final approved design (Never + failed-attempt archive + Ignore-on-DisruptionTarget).

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* chore(chart): mirror stageTimeout into the nodewright CRD

The rebased fix/api-rename base now ships chart/templates/nodewright-crd.yaml
(the nodewright.nvidia.com CRD chart mirror). The package stageTimeout field
added in this series must appear there too, alongside the existing mirror into
chart/templates/skyhook-crd.yaml.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* refactor(operator): author new API fields in the nodewright group only (#301)

The nodewright group was a schema-frozen textual-rename mirror of the legacy skyhook
types (gen_nodewright.sh), so new fields had to be added to the deprecated skyhook API
and mirrored across. That guard only has value during the rename bridge; the skyhook
group is removed next release. Retire the mirror so new API surface lands on nodewright
only (review: lockwobr on #316):

- delete scripts/gen_nodewright.sh; drop generate-nodewright from the manifests/generate
  prereqs and remove the generate-nodewright and verify-nodewright-gen make targets;
- un-generate the nodewright group (drop the gen_nodewright DO-NOT-EDIT markers from its
  5 source files; deepcopy and CRDs stay controller-gen-owned);
- remove Package.stageTimeout from the legacy skyhook API (types, webhook, webhook test,
  conversion + its test, skyhook CRD, chart skyhook-crd.yaml) and keep it native in the
  nodewright API. job_builder.go already reads the nodewright field, so no behavior change.

Also recast em-dashes in job_builder.go doc comments per repo prose style.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* test(operator): set Job TTL options in the legacy-workload migration test

The Job builders (#301) add JobTTLSucceeded/JobTTLFailed validation to
SkyhookOperatorOptions; the legacy-workload migration test (from the rename)
must set them or NewSkyhookReconciler rejects the options.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* feat(operator): dal Job accessors and Job event mapper (#302)

First increment of the Job-controller work for the package-execution-as-Jobs
migration. Not wired into reconcile yet.

- dal: GetJob / GetJobs mirroring GetPod / GetPods (+ regenerated DAL mock).
- job_controller.go: jobHandlerFunc maps Job events into the single reconcile
  queue as "job---<name>" requests (mirrors podHandlerFunc's "pod---<name>"
  routing), gated on the skyhook name label so only Jobs we own are enqueued.

JobReconcile / jobMatchesPackage and the pod-log-tail accessor land next.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(operator): recast em-dashes in jobHandlerFunc comment

Repo prose style prefers commas over em-dashes in doc comments (review on #313).

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs: add design doc for package execution as Jobs

Design companion to #223: Job shape (one Job per skyhook/package/stage/node),
completion flow with a persisted processed-once marker, outcome-based TTL,
naming/rerun rules, upgrade dual-path, and rejected alternatives incl.
podFailurePolicy for ImagePullBackOff (split to #306).

Closes #299

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): address adversarial review of Jobs migration design

Review (Fable, xhigh effort) found 3 blockers + 5 majors; all addressed:

- AlreadyExists is no longer blindly benign: GET; finished/mismatched Jobs
  are foreground-deleted + requeued, never Upserted as in_progress
- ValidateRunningPackages checks scoped to unfinished Jobs; finished Jobs
  cleaned only by TTL or a precise rerun predicate (protects retention)
- Upgrade window: JobExists/HasRunningPackages/validation are legacy-pod
  aware to prevent duplicate executors and premature interrupts
- not-ready/unreachable NoExecute tolerations so slow reboots don't evict
  the pod and fail the Job (backoffLimit: 0)
- Failed (disruption) Jobs no longer write erroring: silent re-execution,
  keeping DeploymentPolicy failure counting unchanged
- Crash-window claim corrected + stage-progress re-processing guard
- Child-pod fallback for GC'd pods; package annotation on pod template
- HandleConfigUpdates added to blast radius (delete Job, not child pod)
- Interrupt Job name formula kept; metrics dead-code note; namespace-scoped
  Jobs informer; node-label length fallback; podReplacementPolicy rationale

Also: TTL knobs named as chart values controllerManager.manager.env.jobTtl*
Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): fix Job backoff model per review; address CodeRabbit findings

The load-bearing correction (CodeRabbit, confirmed against Job controller
semantics): with restartPolicy: OnFailure the Job controller counts the sum
of container restarts (init containers included) toward backoffLimit and
terminates the pod at the limit — backoffLimit: 0 would kill a package on
its first step retry. backoffLimit is now effectively unlimited
(math.MaxInt32); retry ownership stays with kubelet in-place restarts, pod
loss self-heals via the Job controller's replacement pod (nodeName-pinned
template), and Job Failed becomes a backstop-only branch.

Also, from CodeRabbit + a second adversarial review pass:

- AlreadyExists must never delete a Complete-but-unrecorded Job (requeue;
  JobReconcile owns unprocessed completions)
- child pods selected by batch.kubernetes.io/controller-uid, not job-name
- containerName GC-fallback defined (interrupt label determines it)
- Failed-path marker/TTL write specified; node-NotFound completion handling
- postcondition guard now enumerates the interrupt/ProgressSkipped case
- HasRunningPackages defined over unfinished Jobs (pod-based reading would
  stall interrupts behind retained Succeeded pods for the TTL window)
- fourth legacy accommodation: HandleConfigUpdates keeps direct deletion of
  legacy erroring pods during the upgrade window
- orphaned-node sweep covers Jobs of deleted nodes regardless of status
- uninstall retention carve-outs documented; podReplacementPolicy gate-off
  wording honest; generation-label note fixed; in-flight hyphenation

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): add per-package stage deadline with parked failures and log-tail snapshot

Enhancement over today's model (per review discussion): a stage that runs
past its deadline — hung, crash-looping, or unpullable — is failed and
surfaced instead of churning or hanging invisibly forever.

- New additive SCR field Package.stageTimeout (metav1.Duration, follows
  gracefulShutdown pattern) -> Job activeDeadlineSeconds; operator default
  JOB_STAGE_TIMEOUT (1h, chart controllerManager.manager.env.jobStageTimeout),
  "0" disables. The one CRD change in the migration; additive, no shim.
- DeadlineExceeded is a first-class failure: state -> erroring (new signal
  for hung stages; DeploymentPolicy sees stuck nodes), Job parked as the
  marker that stops recreation until rerun/reset/config-update or
  JOB_TTL_FAILED expiry (deliberate slow-retry cadence). Rules 2/3 gain the
  park exception; other Failed reasons stay the silent backstop.
- Log-tail snapshot: on FailureTarget (pods still terminating) the operator
  captures the stuck container's last ~16KiB via the pod-logs API into the
  skyhook.nvidia.com/last-logs Job annotation, so the parked tombstone stays
  debuggable after the deadline deletes the pod. Best-effort, never blocks
  the park path. Needs pods/log get RBAC + a client-go clientset seam in dal.
- Honest caveat retained: full post-deadline container logs live in
  SKYHOOK_LOG_DIR host logs / log aggregation.
- Rejected alternative documented: restartPolicy Never + small backoffLimit
  (retains failed pods but can't catch hangs, changes retry substrate).

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): pause cascades to Job suspension

Second deliberate enhancement: skyhook.nvidia.com/pause now halts in-flight
stages instead of letting them finish. UpdatePauseStatus sets spec.suspend
on the Skyhook's unfinished Jobs (annotation stays the user-facing
primitive; suspension is enforcement). SIGTERM mid-step is the same
recovery shape as reboot/eviction — agent flag files skip completed steps
on resume. Suspension clears/resets Job startTime, so the stage deadline
stops ticking while paused and resets fresh on resume — closing the bad
interaction where a paused-but-running stage could hit its deadline and
park as erroring. Suspended Jobs stay unfinished for JobExists/validation;
interrupts that already fired a reboot converge via the resource-id flag;
legacy pods keep let-finish semantics during the upgrade window (CLI docs
must note the version-dependent strength). disable is unchanged. Replaces
the earlier 'Rejected: suspend as pause primitive' section — the
no-checkpointing cost is now accepted deliberately.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): switch package Jobs to restartPolicy Never with failed-attempt archive

Reworks the retry substrate (maintainer direction + review pass 3):

- Package/stage Jobs: restartPolicy Never — each attempt is a fresh pod;
  the operator prunes Failed pods keeping ONE full-log archive (newest
  Failed without DisruptionTarget, by creationTimestamp; normal deletion
  only). kubectl logs on the last real failure works during retries, past
  the deadline, and through a pause — superseding the 16KiB snapshot for
  genuinely-failing stages (snapshot remains for hangs and never-started
  containers, now also recording Waiting reason+message, e.g.
  ImagePullBackOff + registry error).
- podFailurePolicy Ignore-on-DisruptionTarget: evictions/preemption/PodGC
  count nothing and stay silent. backoffLimit stays MaxInt32 (counts
  Failed pods under Never).
- INTERRUPT Jobs keep OnFailure (no podFailurePolicy): a reboot interrupt
  kills its own pod by design; Never would mint a spurious failed attempt
  per successful reboot.
- Erroring evidence guards: no DisruptionTarget, real terminal verdict
  (skip ContainerStatusUnknown + admission rejections), and
  DeletionTimestamp unset — pause suspension, rule deletions, sweeps and
  manual pod deletes stay silent (review pass 3 blocker).
- Resume half of the pause cascade gets an explicit owner and ordering
  (after ValidateRunningPackages; invalidate stale suspended Jobs first).
- New rule 5: REAPPLY_ON_REBOOT reset sweeps the node's Jobs regardless
  of status — pre-reboot completions must not land on reset state.
- Honest deltas documented: hard-crash 137/Error can flap erroring once;
  admission-rejected pods count attempts (replaces a worse latent wedge
  where such a raw pod satisfies PodExists forever); attempts figure now
  job.status.failed (user-visible nodeState/CLI improvement); deadline on
  an unreachable node surfaces via stale FailureTarget as erroring;
  stageTimeout "0" omits activeDeadlineSeconds; HandleConfigUpdates
  scoped to unfinished/parked Jobs; Complete path reads the Succeeded pod.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): restructure Jobs migration doc for readability

Address maintainer review (@lockwobr): the substance was approved but the
layering buried it. Restructure without cutting the analysis:

- add a TL;DR decision table up top so the shape reads in 60 seconds
- describe behavior by role in the narrative; move Go symbols and file
  references to a baseline section and a new References block
- drop exact constants and most inline cross-references from the prose
- collapse the defensive material (crash-window guards, hard-crash deltas,
  admission edge, erroring guards, pruner safety) into an
  'Edge cases and correctness arguments' appendix
- collapse Rejected alternatives to a table, keeping only the central
  Never-vs-OnFailure decision in full

Also fixes the meta-lint failure: the Goals list had a duplicate '4.'
(MD029/ol-prefix); it is now sequential 1-5.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* refactor(operator): package annotation helpers accept any client.Object (#300) (#313)

* refactor(operator): package annotation helpers accept any client.Object

GetPackage/SetPackages/InvalidatePackage/IsInvalidPackage only ever touch an
object's annotations, but were typed to *corev1.Pod. Widen them to
client.Object (using GetAnnotations/SetAnnotations instead of the .Annotations
field) so the same package metadata can ride on batch/v1 Jobs and their pod
templates — the first step of the package-execution-as-Jobs migration (#223).

No behavior change: every call site passes a *corev1.Pod, which already
satisfies client.Object. Adds a round-trip spec proving SetPackages -> GetPackage
(and the invalidate path) behaves identically on a *batchv1.Job and a *corev1.Pod.

Part of #300.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* refactor(operator): use metav1.Object for package annotation helpers

Address review on #313:
- Widen to metav1.Object instead of client.Object. The Job pod template
  (*corev1.PodTemplateSpec) satisfies metav1.Object but not client.Object
  (it has no runtime.Object methods), and the Job builder (#301) sets the
  package annotation on job.Spec.Template. metav1.Object is also the more
  precise seam, since these helpers only ever touch metadata.
- Extract the repeated "<prefix>/package" key into a named constant.
- Add a round-trip spec covering the Job pod template.

Part of #300.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* test(operator): assert package fields and guard typed-nil in helpers

Address the follow-up review on #313:
- Guard the metadata helpers against typed-nil interface values. Widening from
  *corev1.Pod to metav1.Object weakened the original nil check — obj == nil misses
  a (*corev1.Pod)(nil) and would panic in GetAnnotations. A small isNil helper
  (reflect-based) catches both a nil interface and a typed-nil pointer; used by all
  four helpers. Adds a spec proving a typed-nil object is treated as absent.
- The round-trip spec now asserts Version/Image/ContainerSHA against the source
  package, not just cross-resource equality, so a serialization regression is caught.

Part of #300.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* fix(operator): guard nil package in InvalidatePackage/IsInvalidPackage

GetPackage returns (nil, nil) when the package annotation is absent, so
pkg.Invalid = true and return pkg.Invalid would panic for an object without
package metadata. Now that these helpers accept any metav1.Object (and Job
handling will call them on Jobs), guard nil: InvalidatePackage no-ops and
IsInvalidPackage reports false. Adds a regression spec for unannotated objects.

Addresses CodeRabbit review on #313.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(operator): recast em-dashes in package annotation comments

Repo prose style prefers colon/comma over em-dashes in doc comments (review on #313).

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

---------

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs: add design doc for package execution as Jobs

Design companion to #223: Job shape (one Job per skyhook/package/stage/node),
completion flow with a persisted processed-once marker, outcome-based TTL,
naming/rerun rules, upgrade dual-path, and rejected alternatives incl.
podFailurePolicy for ImagePullBackOff (split to #306).

Closes #299

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): address adversarial review of Jobs migration design

Review (Fable, xhigh effort) found 3 blockers + 5 majors; all addressed:

- AlreadyExists is no longer blindly benign: GET; finished/mismatched Jobs
  are foreground-deleted + requeued, never Upserted as in_progress
- ValidateRunningPackages checks scoped to unfinished Jobs; finished Jobs
  cleaned only by TTL or a precise rerun predicate (protects retention)
- Upgrade window: JobExists/HasRunningPackages/validation are legacy-pod
  aware to prevent duplicate executors and premature interrupts
- not-ready/unreachable NoExecute tolerations so slow reboots don't evict
  the pod and fail the Job (backoffLimit: 0)
- Failed (disruption) Jobs no longer write erroring: silent re-execution,
  keeping DeploymentPolicy failure counting unchanged
- Crash-window claim corrected + stage-progress re-processing guard
- Child-pod fallback for GC'd pods; package annotation on pod template
- HandleConfigUpdates added to blast radius (delete Job, not child pod)
- Interrupt Job name formula kept; metrics dead-code note; namespace-scoped
  Jobs informer; node-label length fallback; podReplacementPolicy rationale

Also: TTL knobs named as chart values controllerManager.manager.env.jobTtl*
Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): fix Job backoff model per review; address CodeRabbit findings

The load-bearing correction (CodeRabbit, confirmed against Job controller
semantics): with restartPolicy: OnFailure the Job controller counts the sum
of container restarts (init containers included) toward backoffLimit and
terminates the pod at the limit — backoffLimit: 0 would kill a package on
its first step retry. backoffLimit is now effectively unlimited
(math.MaxInt32); retry ownership stays with kubelet in-place restarts, pod
loss self-heals via the Job controller's replacement pod (nodeName-pinned
template), and Job Failed becomes a backstop-only branch.

Also, from CodeRabbit + a second adversarial review pass:

- AlreadyExists must never delete a Complete-but-unrecorded Job (requeue;
  JobReconcile owns unprocessed completions)
- child pods selected by batch.kubernetes.io/controller-uid, not job-name
- containerName GC-fallback defined (interrupt label determines it)
- Failed-path marker/TTL write specified; node-NotFound completion handling
- postcondition guard now enumerates the interrupt/ProgressSkipped case
- HasRunningPackages defined over unfinished Jobs (pod-based reading would
  stall interrupts behind retained Succeeded pods for the TTL window)
- fourth legacy accommodation: HandleConfigUpdates keeps direct deletion of
  legacy erroring pods during the upgrade window
- orphaned-node sweep covers Jobs of deleted nodes regardless of status
- uninstall retention carve-outs documented; podReplacementPolicy gate-off
  wording honest; generation-label note fixed; in-flight hyphenation

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): add per-package stage deadline with parked failures and log-tail snapshot

Enhancement over today's model (per review discussion): a stage that runs
past its deadline — hung, crash-looping, or unpullable — is failed and
surfaced instead of churning or hanging invisibly forever.

- New additive SCR field Package.stageTimeout (metav1.Duration, follows
  gracefulShutdown pattern) -> Job activeDeadlineSeconds; operator default
  JOB_STAGE_TIMEOUT (1h, chart controllerManager.manager.env.jobStageTimeout),
  "0" disables. The one CRD change in the migration; additive, no shim.
- DeadlineExceeded is a first-class failure: state -> erroring (new signal
  for hung stages; DeploymentPolicy sees stuck nodes), Job parked as the
  marker that stops recreation until rerun/reset/config-update or
  JOB_TTL_FAILED expiry (deliberate slow-retry cadence). Rules 2/3 gain the
  park exception; other Failed reasons stay the silent backstop.
- Log-tail snapshot: on FailureTarget (pods still terminating) the operator
  captures the stuck container's last ~16KiB via the pod-logs API into the
  skyhook.nvidia.com/last-logs Job annotation, so the parked tombstone stays
  debuggable after the deadline deletes the pod. Best-effort, never blocks
  the park path. Needs pods/log get RBAC + a client-go clientset seam in dal.
- Honest caveat retained: full post-deadline container logs live in
  SKYHOOK_LOG_DIR host logs / log aggregation.
- Rejected alternative documented: restartPolicy Never + small backoffLimit
  (retains failed pods but can't catch hangs, changes retry substrate).

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): pause cascades to Job suspension

Second deliberate enhancement: skyhook.nvidia.com/pause now halts in-flight
stages instead of letting them finish. UpdatePauseStatus sets spec.suspend
on the Skyhook's unfinished Jobs (annotation stays the user-facing
primitive; suspension is enforcement). SIGTERM mid-step is the same
recovery shape as reboot/eviction — agent flag files skip completed steps
on resume. Suspension clears/resets Job startTime, so the stage deadline
stops ticking while paused and resets fresh on resume — closing the bad
interaction where a paused-but-running stage could hit its deadline and
park as erroring. Suspended Jobs stay unfinished for JobExists/validation;
interrupts that already fired a reboot converge via the resource-id flag;
legacy pods keep let-finish semantics during the upgrade window (CLI docs
must note the version-dependent strength). disable is unchanged. Replaces
the earlier 'Rejected: suspend as pause primitive' section — the
no-checkpointing cost is now accepted deliberately.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): switch package Jobs to restartPolicy Never with failed-attempt archive

Reworks the retry substrate (maintainer direction + review pass 3):

- Package/stage Jobs: restartPolicy Never — each attempt is a fresh pod;
  the operator prunes Failed pods keeping ONE full-log archive (newest
  Failed without DisruptionTarget, by creationTimestamp; normal deletion
  only). kubectl logs on the last real failure works during retries, past
  the deadline, and through a pause — superseding the 16KiB snapshot for
  genuinely-failing stages (snapshot remains for hangs and never-started
  containers, now also recording Waiting reason+message, e.g.
  ImagePullBackOff + registry error).
- podFailurePolicy Ignore-on-DisruptionTarget: evictions/preemption/PodGC
  count nothing and stay silent. backoffLimit stays MaxInt32 (counts
  Failed pods under Never).
- INTERRUPT Jobs keep OnFailure (no podFailurePolicy): a reboot interrupt
  kills its own pod by design; Never would mint a spurious failed attempt
  per successful reboot.
- Erroring evidence guards: no DisruptionTarget, real terminal verdict
  (skip ContainerStatusUnknown + admission rejections), and
  DeletionTimestamp unset — pause suspension, rule deletions, sweeps and
  manual pod deletes stay silent (review pass 3 blocker).
- Resume half of the pause cascade gets an explicit owner and ordering
  (after ValidateRunningPackages; invalidate stale suspended Jobs first).
- New rule 5: REAPPLY_ON_REBOOT reset sweeps the node's Jobs regardless
  of status — pre-reboot completions must not land on reset state.
- Honest deltas documented: hard-crash 137/Error can flap erroring once;
  admission-rejected pods count attempts (replaces a worse latent wedge
  where such a raw pod satisfies PodExists forever); attempts figure now
  job.status.failed (user-visible nodeState/CLI improvement); deadline on
  an unreachable node surfaces via stale FailureTarget as erroring;
  stageTimeout "0" omits activeDeadlineSeconds; HandleConfigUpdates
  scoped to unfinished/parked Jobs; Complete path reads the Succeeded pod.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): restructure Jobs migration doc for readability

Address maintainer review (@lockwobr): the substance was approved but the
layering buried it. Restructure without cutting the analysis:

- add a TL;DR decision table up top so the shape reads in 60 seconds
- describe behavior by role in the narrative; move Go symbols and file
  references to a baseline section and a new References block
- drop exact constants and most inline cross-references from the prose
- collapse the defensive material (crash-window guards, hard-crash deltas,
  admission edge, erroring guards, pruner safety) into an
  'Edge cases and correctness arguments' appendix
- collapse Rejected alternatives to a table, keeping only the central
  Never-vs-OnFailure decision in full

Also fixes the meta-lint failure: the Goals list had a duplicate '4.'
(MD029/ol-prefix); it is now sequential 1-5.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* refactor(operator): package annotation helpers accept any client.Object (#300) (#313)

* refactor(operator): package annotation helpers accept any client.Object

GetPackage/SetPackages/InvalidatePackage/IsInvalidPackage only ever touch an
object's annotations, but were typed to *corev1.Pod. Widen them to
client.Object (using GetAnnotations/SetAnnotations instead of the .Annotations
field) so the same package metadata can ride on batch/v1 Jobs and their pod
templates — the first step of the package-execution-as-Jobs migration (#223).

No behavior change: every call site passes a *corev1.Pod, which already
satisfies client.Object. Adds a round-trip spec proving SetPackages -> GetPackage
(and the invalidate path) behaves identically on a *batchv1.Job and a *corev1.Pod.

Part of #300.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* refactor(operator): use metav1.Object for package annotation helpers

Address review on #313:
- Widen to metav1.Object instead of client.Object. The Job pod template
  (*corev1.PodTemplateSpec) satisfies metav1.Object but not client.Object
  (it has no runtime.Object methods), and the Job builder (#301) sets the
  package annotation on job.Spec.Template. metav1.Object is also the more
  precise seam, since these helpers only ever touch metadata.
- Extract the repeated "<prefix>/package" key into a named constant.
- Add a round-trip spec covering the Job pod template.

Part of #300.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* test(operator): assert package fields and guard typed-nil in helpers

Address the follow-up review on #313:
- Guard the metadata helpers against typed-nil interface values. Widening from
  *corev1.Pod to metav1.Object weakened the original nil check — obj == nil misses
  a (*corev1.Pod)(nil) and would panic in GetAnnotations. A small isNil helper
  (reflect-based) catches both a nil interface and a typed-nil pointer; used by all
  four helpers. Adds a spec proving a typed-nil object is treated as absent.
- The round-trip spec now asserts Version/Image/ContainerSHA against the source
  package, not just cross-resource equality, so a serialization regression is caught.

Part of #300.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* fix(operator): guard nil package in InvalidatePackage/IsInvalidPackage

GetPackage returns (nil, nil) when the package annotation is absent, so
pkg.Invalid = true and return pkg.Invalid would panic for an object without
package metadata. Now that these helpers accept any metav1.Object (and Job
handling will call them on Jobs), guard nil: InvalidatePackage no-ops and
IsInvalidPackage reports false. Adds a regression spec for unannotated objects.

Addresses CodeRabbit review on #313.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(operator): recast em-dashes in package annotation comments

Repo prose style prefers colon/comma over em-dashes in doc comments (review on #313).

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

---------

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* feat(operator): Job builders and stage-timeout/TTL options (#301) (#316)

* docs: add design doc for package execution as Jobs

Design companion to #223: Job shape (one Job per skyhook/package/stage/node),
completion flow with a persisted processed-once marker, outcome-based TTL,
naming/rerun rules, upgrade dual-path, and rejected alternatives incl.
podFailurePolicy for ImagePullBackOff (split to #306).

Closes #299

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): address adversarial review of Jobs migration design

Review (Fable, xhigh effort) found 3 blockers + 5 majors; all addressed:

- AlreadyExists is no longer blindly benign: GET; finished/mismatched Jobs
  are foreground-deleted + requeued, never Upserted as in_progress
- ValidateRunningPackages checks scoped to unfinished Jobs; finished Jobs
  cleaned only by TTL or a precise rerun predicate (protects retention)
- Upgrade window: JobExists/HasRunningPackages/validation are legacy-pod
  aware to prevent duplicate executors and premature interrupts
- not-ready/unreachable NoExecute tolerations so slow reboots don't evict
  the pod and fail the Job (backoffLimit: 0)
- Failed (disruption) Jobs no longer write erroring: silent re-execution,
  keeping DeploymentPolicy failure counting unchanged
- Crash-window claim corrected + stage-progress re-processing guard
- Child-pod fallback for GC'd pods; package annotation on pod template
- HandleConfigUpdates added to blast radius (delete Job, not child pod)
- Interrupt Job name formula kept; metrics dead-code note; namespace-scoped
  Jobs informer; node-label length fallback; podReplacementPolicy rationale

Also: TTL knobs named as chart values controllerManager.manager.env.jobTtl*
Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): fix Job backoff model per review; address CodeRabbit findings

The load-bearing correction (CodeRabbit, confirmed against Job controller
semantics): with restartPolicy: OnFailure the Job controller counts the sum
of container restarts (init containers included) toward backoffLimit and
terminates the pod at the limit — backoffLimit: 0 would kill a package on
its first step retry. backoffLimit is now effectively unlimited
(math.MaxInt32); retry ownership stays with kubelet in-place restarts, pod
loss self-heals via the Job controller's replacement pod (nodeName-pinned
template), and Job Failed becomes a backstop-only branch.

Also, from CodeRabbit + a second adversarial review pass:

- AlreadyExists must never delete a Complete-but-unrecorded Job (requeue;
  JobReconcile owns unprocessed completions)
- child pods selected by batch.kubernetes.io/controller-uid, not job-name
- containerName GC-fallback defined (interrupt label determines it)
- Failed-path marker/TTL write specified; node-NotFound completion handling
- postcondition guard now enumerates the interrupt/ProgressSkipped case
- HasRunningPackages defined over unfinished Jobs (pod-based reading would
  stall interrupts behind retained Succeeded pods for the TTL window)
- fourth legacy accommodation: HandleConfigUpdates keeps direct deletion of
  legacy erroring pods during the upgrade window
- orphaned-node sweep covers Jobs of deleted nodes regardless of status
- uninstall retention carve-outs documented; podReplacementPolicy gate-off
  wording honest; generation-label note fixed; in-flight hyphenation

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): add per-package stage deadline with parked failures and log-tail snapshot

Enhancement over today's model (per review discussion): a stage that runs
past its deadline — hung, crash-looping, or unpullable — is failed and
surfaced instead of churning or hanging invisibly forever.

- New additive SCR field Package.stageTimeout (metav1.Duration, follows
  gracefulShutdown pattern) -> Job activeDeadlineSeconds; operator default
  JOB_STAGE_TIMEOUT (1h, chart controllerManager.manager.env.jobStageTimeout),
  "0" disables. The one CRD change in the migration; additive, no shim.
- DeadlineExceeded is a first-class failure: state -> erroring (new signal
  for hung stages; DeploymentPolicy sees stuck nodes), Job parked as the
  marker that stops recreation until rerun/reset/config-update or
  JOB_TTL_FAILED expiry (deliberate slow-retry cadence). Rules 2/3 gain the
  park exception; other Failed reasons stay the silent backstop.
- Log-tail snapshot: on FailureTarget (pods still terminating) the operator
  captures the stuck container's last ~16KiB via the pod-logs API into the
  skyhook.nvidia.com/last-logs Job annotation, so the parked tombstone stays
  debuggable after the deadline deletes the pod. Best-effort, never blocks
  the park path. Needs pods/log get RBAC + a client-go clientset seam in dal.
- Honest caveat retained: full post-deadline container logs live in
  SKYHOOK_LOG_DIR host logs / log aggregation.
- Rejected alternative documented: restartPolicy Never + small backoffLimit
  (retains failed pods but can't catch hangs, changes retry substrate).

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): pause cascades to Job suspension

Second deliberate enhancement: skyhook.nvidia.com/pause now halts in-flight
stages instead of letting them finish. UpdatePauseStatus sets spec.suspend
on the Skyhook's unfinished Jobs (annotation stays the user-facing
primitive; suspension is enforcement). SIGTERM mid-step is the same
recovery shape as reboot/eviction — agent flag files skip completed steps
on resume. Suspension clears/resets Job startTime, so the stage deadline
stops ticking while paused and resets fresh on resume — closing the bad
interaction where a paused-but-running stage could hit its deadline and
park as erroring. Suspended Jobs stay unfinished for JobExists/validation;
interrupts that already fired a reboot converge via the resource-id flag;
legacy pods keep let-finish semantics during the upgrade window (CLI docs
must note the version-dependent strength). disable is unchanged. Replaces
the earlier 'Rejected: suspend as pause primitive' section — the
no-checkpointing cost is now accepted deliberately.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): switch package Jobs to restartPolicy Never with failed-attempt archive

Reworks the retry substrate (maintainer direction + review pass 3):

- Package/stage Jobs: restartPolicy Never — each attempt is a fresh pod;
  the operator prunes Failed pods keeping ONE full-log archive (newest
  Failed without DisruptionTarget, by creationTimestamp; normal deletion
  only). kubectl logs on the last real failure works during retries, past
  the deadline, and through a pause — superseding the 16KiB snapshot for
  genuinely-failing stages (snapshot remains for hangs and never-started
  containers, now also recording Waiting reason+message, e.g.
  ImagePullBackOff + registry error).
- podFailurePolicy Ignore-on-DisruptionTarget: evictions/preemption/PodGC
  count nothing and stay silent. backoffLimit stays MaxInt32 (counts
  Failed pods under Never).
- INTERRUPT Jobs keep OnFailure (no podFailurePolicy): a reboot interrupt
  kills its own pod by design; Never would mint a spurious failed attempt
  per successful reboot.
- Erroring evidence guards: no DisruptionTarget, real terminal verdict
  (skip ContainerStatusUnknown + admission rejections), and
  DeletionTimestamp unset — pause suspension, rule deletions, sweeps and
  manual pod deletes stay silent (review pass 3 blocker).
- Resume half of the pause cascade gets an explicit owner and ordering
  (after ValidateRunningPackages; invalidate stale suspended Jobs first).
- New rule 5: REAPPLY_ON_REBOOT reset sweeps the node's Jobs regardless
  of status — pre-reboot completions must not land on reset state.
- Honest deltas documented: hard-crash 137/Error can flap erroring once;
  admission-rejected pods count attempts (replaces a worse latent wedge
  where such a raw pod satisfies PodExists forever); attempts figure now
  job.status.failed (user-visible nodeState/CLI improvement); deadline on
  an unreachable node surfaces via stale FailureTarget as erroring;
  stageTimeout "0" omits activeDeadlineSeconds; HandleConfigUpdates
  scoped to unfinished/parked Jobs; Complete path reads the Succeeded pod.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): restructure Jobs migration doc for readability

Address maintainer review (@lockwobr): the substance was approved but the
layering buried it. Restructure without cutting the analysis:

- add a TL;DR decision table up top so the shape reads in 60 seconds
- describe behavior by role in the narrative; move Go symbols and file
  references to a baseline section and a new References block
- drop exact constants and most inline cross-references from the prose
- collapse the defensive material (crash-window guards, hard-crash deltas,
  admission edge, erroring guards, pruner safety) into an
  'Edge cases and correctness arguments' appendix
- collapse Rejected alternatives to a table, keeping only the central
  Never-vs-OnFailure decision in full

Also fixes the meta-lint failure: the Goals list had a duplicate '4.'
(MD029/ol-prefix); it is now sequential 1-5.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* refactor(operator): package annotation helpers accept any client.Object

GetPackage/SetPackages/InvalidatePackage/IsInvalidPackage only ever touch an
object's annotations, but were typed to *corev1.Pod. Widen them to
client.Object (using GetAnnotations/SetAnnotations instead of the .Annotations
field) so the same package metadata can ride on batch/v1 Jobs and their pod
templates — the first step of the package-execution-as-Jobs migration (#223).

No behavior change: every call site passes a *corev1.Pod, which already
satisfies client.Object. Adds a round-trip spec proving SetPackages -> GetPackage
(and the invalidate path) behaves identically on a *batchv1.Job and a *corev1.Pod.

Part of #300.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* refactor(operator): use metav1.Object for package annotation helpers

Address review on #313:
- Widen to metav1.Object instead of client.Object. The Job pod template
  (*corev1.PodTemplateSpec) satisfies metav1.Object but not client.Object
  (it has no runtime.Object methods), and the Job builder (#301) sets the
  package annotation on job.Spec.Template. metav1.Object is also the more
  precise seam, since these helpers only ever touch metadata.
- Extract the repeated "<prefix>/package" key into a named constant.
- Add a round-trip spec covering the Job pod template.

Part of #300.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* test(operator): assert package fields and guard typed-nil in helpers

Address the follow-up review on #313:
- Guard the metadata helpers against typed-nil interface values. Widening from
  *corev1.Pod to metav1.Object weakened the original nil check — obj == nil misses
  a (*corev1.Pod)(nil) and would panic in GetAnnotations. A small isNil helper
  (reflect-based) catches both a nil interface and a typed-nil pointer; used by all
  four helpers. Adds a spec proving a typed-nil object is treated as absent.
- The round-trip spec now asserts Version/Image/ContainerSHA against the source
  package, not just cross-resource equality, so a serialization regression is caught.

Part of #300.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* fix(operator): guard nil package in InvalidatePackage/IsInvalidPackage

GetPackage returns (nil, nil) when the package annotation is absent, so
pkg.Invalid = true and return pkg.Invalid would panic for an object without
package metadata. Now that these helpers accept any metav1.Object (and Job
handling will call them on Jobs), guard nil: InvalidatePackage no-ops and
IsInvalidPackage reports false. Adds a regression spec for unannotated objects.

Addresses CodeRabbit review on #313.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(operator): recast em-dashes in package annotation comments

Repo prose style prefers colon/comma over em-dashes in doc comments (review on #313).

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* feat(operator): add Job builders and stage-timeout/TTL options (#301)

Adds the batch/v1 Job builders for the package-execution-as-Jobs migration, not
yet wired into reconcile (ApplyPackage/Interrupt still create raw pods until #303).

- job_builder.go: createJobFromPackage / createInterruptJobFromPackage. Each wraps
  the pod the operator builds today (createPodFromPackage / createInterruptPodForPackage)
  so the executor shape can't drift, then applies the Job differences: the forever
  pause container becomes an exit-0 container so the pod can reach Succeeded;
  package Jobs use restartPolicy Never + effectively-unlimited backoffLimit +
  podFailurePolicy Ignore-on-DisruptionTarget (disruptions stay silent); interrupt
  Jobs keep OnFailure with no podFailurePolicy; podReplacementPolicy Failed;
  ttlSecondsAfterFinished unset at creation; unbounded not-ready/unreachable NoExecute
  tolerations; labels name/package/stage/node/generation (+interrupt) on the Job and
  its pod template, full resource-id as an annotation, node label hashed for long names.
- CRD: additive Package.stageTimeout (*metav1.Duration) -> Job activeDeadlineSeconds
  (package value else JOB_STAGE_TIMEOUT default; 0 omits the deadline). Added to the
  legacy source and regenerated into the nodewright group; webhook validation
  (non-negative); conversion + zero-value-guard fixture; chart CRD mirror.
- Options: JOB_TTL_SUCCEEDED (1h) / JOB_TTL_FAILED (24h) / JOB_STAGE_TIMEOUT (1h)
  with Validate() floors (TTLs >= 1m, stage timeout >= 0).
- Extracted pauseContainerName/interruptLabelValue/shellBinary constants (goconst).

No prod behavior change; the field/options/builders are consumed starting in #303.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* fix(operator): round up stage deadline; add admission and edge tests

Adversarial review follow-up on #301:
- activeDeadlineSeconds now rounds up via math.Ceil. A positive sub-second
  stageTimeout (e.g. 500ms, reachable since the webhook only rejects < 0)
  truncated with int64(d.Seconds()) to 0 — and activeDeadlineSeconds: 0
  insta-fails every Job, so the package could never complete. Any positive
  timeout now yields at least a 1s deadline.
- Tests: sub-second stageTimeout (=> 1s); gracefulShutdown + imagePullSecret
  carry-through to the pod template; interrupt Job activeDeadlineSeconds; and an
  envtest that Creates both Job kinds against the apiserver, validating the
  podFailurePolicy x restartPolicy x podReplacementPolicy x activeDeadlineSeconds
  field combinations that struct-level tests can't see admission for.

The reviewer's second flag (Never + MaxInt32 vs the design's OnFailure/backoffLimit:0)
was a false positive: that quotes the superseded pre-rework model. This implements
the final approved design (Never + failed-attempt archive + Ignore-on-DisruptionTarget).

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* chore(chart): mirror stageTimeout into the nodewright CRD

The rebased fix/api-rename base now ships chart/templates/nodewright-crd.yaml
(the nodewright.nvidia.com CRD chart mirror). The package stageTimeout field
added in this series must appear there too, alongside the existing mirror into
chart/templates/skyhook-crd.yaml.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* refactor(operator): author new API fields in the nodewright group only (#301)

The nodewright group was a schema-frozen textual-rename mirror of the legacy skyhook
types (gen_nodewright.sh), so new fields had to be added to the deprecated skyhook API
and mirrored across. That guard only has value during the rename bridge; the skyhook
group is removed next release. Retire the mirror so new API surface lands on nodewright
only (review: lockwobr on #316):

- delete scripts/gen_nodewright.sh; drop generate-nodewright from the manifests/generate
  prereqs and remove the generate-nodewright and verify-nodewright-gen make targets;
- un-generate the nodewright group (drop the gen_nodewright DO-NOT-EDIT markers from its
  5 source files; deepcopy and CRDs stay controller-gen-owned);
- remove Package.stageTimeout from the legacy skyhook API (types, webhook, webhook test,
  conversion + its test, skyhook CRD, chart skyhook-crd.yaml) and keep it native in the
  nodewright API. job_builder.go already reads the nodewright field, so no behavior change.

Also recast em-dashes in job_builder.go doc comments per repo prose style.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* test(operator): set Job TTL options in the legacy-workload migration test

The Job builders (#301) add JobTTLSucceeded/JobTTLFailed validation to
SkyhookOperatorOptions; the legacy-workload migration test (from the rename)
must set them or NewSkyhookReconciler rejects the options.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs: add design doc for package execution as Jobs

Design companion to #223: Job shape (one Job per skyhook/package/stage/node),
completion flow with a persisted processed-once marker, outcome-based TTL,
naming/rerun rules, upgrade dual-path, and rejected alternatives incl.
podFailurePolicy for ImagePullBackOff (split to #306).

Closes #299

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): address adversarial review of Jobs migration design

Review (Fable, xhigh effort) found 3 blockers + 5 majors; all addressed:

- AlreadyExists is no longer blindly benign: GET; finished/mismatched Jobs
  are foreground-deleted + requeued, never Upserted as in_progress
- ValidateRunningPackages checks scoped to unfinished Jobs; finished Jobs
  cleaned only by TTL or a precise rerun predicate (protects retention)
- Upgrade window: JobExists/HasRunningPackages/validation are legacy-pod
  aware to prevent duplicate executors and premature interrupts
- not-ready/unreachable NoExecute tolerations so slow reboots don't evict
  the pod and fail the Job (backoffLimit: 0)
- Failed (disruption) Jobs no longer write erroring: silent re-execution,
  keeping DeploymentPolicy failure counting unchanged
- Crash-window claim corrected + stage-progress re-processing guard
- Child-pod fallback for GC'd pods; package annotation on pod template
- HandleConfigUpdates added to blast radius (delete Job, not child pod)
- Interrupt Job name formula kept; metrics dead-code note; namespace-scoped
  Jobs informer; node-label length fallback; podReplacementPolicy rationale

Also: TTL knobs named as chart values controllerManager.manager.env.jobTtl*
Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): fix Job backoff model per review; address CodeRabbit findings

The load-bearing correction (CodeRabbit, confirmed against Job controller
semantics): with restartPolicy: OnFailure the Job controller counts the sum
of container restarts (init containers included) toward backoffLimit and
terminates the pod at the limit — backoffLimit: 0 would kill a package on
its first step retry. backoffLimit is now effectively unlimited
(math.MaxInt32); retry ownership stays with kubelet in-place restarts, pod
loss self-heals via the Job controller's replacement pod (nodeName-pinned
template), and Job Failed becomes a backstop-only branch.

Also, from CodeRabbit + a second adversarial review pass:

- AlreadyExists must never delete a Complete-but-unrecorded Job (requeue;
  JobReconcile owns unprocessed completions)
- child pods selected by batch.kubernetes.io/controller-uid, not job-name
- containerName GC-fallback defined (interrupt label determines it)
- Failed-path marker/TTL write specified; node-NotFound completion handling
- postcondition guard now enumerates the interrupt/ProgressSkipped case
- HasRunningPackages defined over unfinished Jobs (pod-based reading would
  stall interrupts behind retained Succeeded pods for the TTL window)
- fourth legacy accommodation: HandleConfigUpdates keeps direct deletion of
  legacy erroring pods during the upgrade window
- orphaned-node sweep covers Jobs of deleted nodes regardless of status
- uninstall retention carve-outs documented; podReplacementPolicy gate-off
  wording honest; generation-label note fixed; in-flight hyphenation

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): add per-package stage deadline with parked failures and log-tail snapshot

Enhancement over today's model (per review discussion): a stage that runs
past its deadline — hung, crash-looping, or unpullable — is failed and
surfaced instead of churning or hanging invisibly forever.

- New additive SCR field Package.stageTimeout (metav1.Duration, follows
  gracefulShutdown pattern) -> Job activeDeadlineSeconds; operator default
  JOB_STAGE_TIMEOUT (1h, chart controllerManager.manager.env.jobStageTimeout),
  "0" disables. The one CRD change in the migration; additive, no shim.
- DeadlineExceeded is a first-class failure: state -> erroring (new signal
  for hung stages; DeploymentPolicy sees stuck nodes), Job parked as the
  marker that stops recreation until rerun/reset/config-update or
  JOB_TTL_FAILED expiry (deliberate slow-retry cadence). Rules 2/3 gain the
  park exception; other Failed reasons stay the silent backstop.
- Log-tail snapshot: on FailureTarget (pods still terminating) the operator
  captures the stuck container's last ~16KiB via the pod-logs API into the
  skyhook.nvidia.com/last-logs Job annotation, so the parked tombstone stays
  debuggable after the deadline deletes the pod. Best-effort, never blocks
  the park path. Needs pods/log get RBAC + a client-go clientset seam in dal.
- Honest caveat retained: full post-deadline container logs live in
  SKYHOOK_LOG_DIR host logs / log aggregation.
- Rejected alternative documented: restartPolicy Never + small backoffLimit
  (retains failed pods but can't catch hangs, changes retry substrate).

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): pause cascades to Job suspension

Second deliberate enhancement: skyhook.nvidia.com/pause now halts in-flight
stages instead of letting them finish. UpdatePauseStatus sets spec.suspend
on the Skyhook's unfinished Jobs (annotation stays the user-facing
primitive; suspension is enforcement). SIGTERM mid-step is the same
recovery shape as reboot/eviction — agent flag files skip completed steps
on resume. Suspension clears/resets Job startTime, so the stage deadline
stops ticking while paused and resets fresh on resume — closing the bad
interaction where a paused-but-running stage could hit its deadline and
park as erroring. Suspended Jobs stay unfinished for JobExists/validation;
interrupts that already fired a reboot converge via the resource-id flag;
legacy pods keep let-finish semantics during the upgrade window (CLI docs
must note the version-dependent strength). disable is unchan…
* docs: add design doc for package execution as Jobs

Design companion to #223: Job shape (one Job per skyhook/package/stage/node),
completion flow with a persisted processed-once marker, outcome-based TTL,
naming/rerun rules, upgrade dual-path, and rejected alternatives incl.
podFailurePolicy for ImagePullBackOff (split to #306).

Closes #299

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): address adversarial review of Jobs migration design

Review (Fable, xhigh effort) found 3 blockers + 5 majors; all addressed:

- AlreadyExists is no longer blindly benign: GET; finished/mismatched Jobs
  are foreground-deleted + requeued, never Upserted as in_progress
- ValidateRunningPackages checks scoped to unfinished Jobs; finished Jobs
  cleaned only by TTL or a precise rerun predicate (protects retention)
- Upgrade window: JobExists/HasRunningPackages/validation are legacy-pod
  aware to prevent duplicate executors and premature interrupts
- not-ready/unreachable NoExecute tolerations so slow reboots don't evict
  the pod and fail the Job (backoffLimit: 0)
- Failed (disruption) Jobs no longer write erroring: silent re-execution,
  keeping DeploymentPolicy failure counting unchanged
- Crash-window claim corrected + stage-progress re-processing guard
- Child-pod fallback for GC'd pods; package annotation on pod template
- HandleConfigUpdates added to blast radius (delete Job, not child pod)
- Interrupt Job name formula kept; metrics dead-code note; namespace-scoped
  Jobs informer; node-label length fallback; podReplacementPolicy rationale

Also: TTL knobs named as chart values controllerManager.manager.env.jobTtl*
Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): fix Job backoff model per review; address CodeRabbit findings

The load-bearing correction (CodeRabbit, confirmed against Job controller
semantics): with restartPolicy: OnFailure the Job controller counts the sum
of container restarts (init containers included) toward backoffLimit and
terminates the pod at the limit — backoffLimit: 0 would kill a package on
its first step retry. backoffLimit is now effectively unlimited
(math.MaxInt32); retry ownership stays with kubelet in-place restarts, pod
loss self-heals via the Job controller's replacement pod (nodeName-pinned
template), and Job Failed becomes a backstop-only branch.

Also, from CodeRabbit + a second adversarial review pass:

- AlreadyExists must never delete a Complete-but-unrecorded Job (requeue;
  JobReconcile owns unprocessed completions)
- child pods selected by batch.kubernetes.io/controller-uid, not job-name
- containerName GC-fallback defined (interrupt label determines it)
- Failed-path marker/TTL write specified; node-NotFound completion handling
- postcondition guard now enumerates the interrupt/ProgressSkipped case
- HasRunningPackages defined over unfinished Jobs (pod-based reading would
  stall interrupts behind retained Succeeded pods for the TTL window)
- fourth legacy accommodation: HandleConfigUpdates keeps direct deletion of
  legacy erroring pods during the upgrade window
- orphaned-node sweep covers Jobs of deleted nodes regardless of status
- uninstall retention carve-outs documented; podReplacementPolicy gate-off
  wording honest; generation-label note fixed; in-flight hyphenation

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): add per-package stage deadline with parked failures and log-tail snapshot

Enhancement over today's model (per review discussion): a stage that runs
past its deadline — hung, crash-looping, or unpullable — is failed and
surfaced instead of churning or hanging invisibly forever.

- New additive SCR field Package.stageTimeout (metav1.Duration, follows
  gracefulShutdown pattern) -> Job activeDeadlineSeconds; operator default
  JOB_STAGE_TIMEOUT (1h, chart controllerManager.manager.env.jobStageTimeout),
  "0" disables. The one CRD change in the migration; additive, no shim.
- DeadlineExceeded is a first-class failure: state -> erroring (new signal
  for hung stages; DeploymentPolicy sees stuck nodes), Job parked as the
  marker that stops recreation until rerun/reset/config-update or
  JOB_TTL_FAILED expiry (deliberate slow-retry cadence). Rules 2/3 gain the
  park exception; other Failed reasons stay the silent backstop.
- Log-tail snapshot: on FailureTarget (pods still terminating) the operator
  captures the stuck container's last ~16KiB via the pod-logs API into the
  skyhook.nvidia.com/last-logs Job annotation, so the parked tombstone stays
  debuggable after the deadline deletes the pod. Best-effort, never blocks
  the park path. Needs pods/log get RBAC + a client-go clientset seam in dal.
- Honest caveat retained: full post-deadline container logs live in
  SKYHOOK_LOG_DIR host logs / log aggregation.
- Rejected alternative documented: restartPolicy Never + small backoffLimit
  (retains failed pods but can't catch hangs, changes retry substrate).

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): pause cascades to Job suspension

Second deliberate enhancement: skyhook.nvidia.com/pause now halts in-flight
stages instead of letting them finish. UpdatePauseStatus sets spec.suspend
on the Skyhook's unfinished Jobs (annotation stays the user-facing
primitive; suspension is enforcement). SIGTERM mid-step is the same
recovery shape as reboot/eviction — agent flag files skip completed steps
on resume. Suspension clears/resets Job startTime, so the stage deadline
stops ticking while paused and resets fresh on resume — closing the bad
interaction where a paused-but-running stage could hit its deadline and
park as erroring. Suspended Jobs stay unfinished for JobExists/validation;
interrupts that already fired a reboot converge via the resource-id flag;
legacy pods keep let-finish semantics during the upgrade window (CLI docs
must note the version-dependent strength). disable is unchanged. Replaces
the earlier 'Rejected: suspend as pause primitive' section — the
no-checkpointing cost is now accepted deliberately.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): switch package Jobs to restartPolicy Never with failed-attempt archive

Reworks the retry substrate (maintainer direction + review pass 3):

- Package/stage Jobs: restartPolicy Never — each attempt is a fresh pod;
  the operator prunes Failed pods keeping ONE full-log archive (newest
  Failed without DisruptionTarget, by creationTimestamp; normal deletion
  only). kubectl logs on the last real failure works during retries, past
  the deadline, and through a pause — superseding the 16KiB snapshot for
  genuinely-failing stages (snapshot remains for hangs and never-started
  containers, now also recording Waiting reason+message, e.g.
  ImagePullBackOff + registry error).
- podFailurePolicy Ignore-on-DisruptionTarget: evictions/preemption/PodGC
  count nothing and stay silent. backoffLimit stays MaxInt32 (counts
  Failed pods under Never).
- INTERRUPT Jobs keep OnFailure (no podFailurePolicy): a reboot interrupt
  kills its own pod by design; Never would mint a spurious failed attempt
  per successful reboot.
- Erroring evidence guards: no DisruptionTarget, real terminal verdict
  (skip ContainerStatusUnknown + admission rejections), and
  DeletionTimestamp unset — pause suspension, rule deletions, sweeps and
  manual pod deletes stay silent (review pass 3 blocker).
- Resume half of the pause cascade gets an explicit owner and ordering
  (after ValidateRunningPackages; invalidate stale suspended Jobs first).
- New rule 5: REAPPLY_ON_REBOOT reset sweeps the node's Jobs regardless
  of status — pre-reboot completions must not land on reset state.
- Honest deltas documented: hard-crash 137/Error can flap erroring once;
  admission-rejected pods count attempts (replaces a worse latent wedge
  where such a raw pod satisfies PodExists forever); attempts figure now
  job.status.failed (user-visible nodeState/CLI improvement); deadline on
  an unreachable node surfaces via stale FailureTarget as erroring;
  stageTimeout "0" omits activeDeadlineSeconds; HandleConfigUpdates
  scoped to unfinished/parked Jobs; Complete path reads the Succeeded pod.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): restructure Jobs migration doc for readability

Address maintainer review (@lockwobr): the substance was approved but the
layering buried it. Restructure without cutting the analysis:

- add a TL;DR decision table up top so the shape reads in 60 seconds
- describe behavior by role in the narrative; move Go symbols and file
  references to a baseline section and a new References block
- drop exact constants and most inline cross-references from the prose
- collapse the defensive material (crash-window guards, hard-crash deltas,
  admission edge, erroring guards, pruner safety) into an
  'Edge cases and correctness arguments' appendix
- collapse Rejected alternatives to a table, keeping only the central
  Never-vs-OnFailure decision in full

Also fixes the meta-lint failure: the Goals list had a duplicate '4.'
(MD029/ol-prefix); it is now sequential 1-5.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* refactor(operator): package annotation helpers accept any client.Object

GetPackage/SetPackages/InvalidatePackage/IsInvalidPackage only ever touch an
object's annotations, but were typed to *corev1.Pod. Widen them to
client.Object (using GetAnnotations/SetAnnotations instead of the .Annotations
field) so the same package metadata can ride on batch/v1 Jobs and their pod
templates — the first step of the package-execution-as-Jobs migration (#223).

No behavior change: every call site passes a *corev1.Pod, which already
satisfies client.Object. Adds a round-trip spec proving SetPackages -> GetPackage
(and the invalidate path) behaves identically on a *batchv1.Job and a *corev1.Pod.

Part of #300.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* refactor(operator): use metav1.Object for package annotation helpers

Address review on #313:
- Widen to metav1.Object instead of client.Object. The Job pod template
  (*corev1.PodTemplateSpec) satisfies metav1.Object but not client.Object
  (it has no runtime.Object methods), and the Job builder (#301) sets the
  package annotation on job.Spec.Template. metav1.Object is also the more
  precise seam, since these helpers only ever touch metadata.
- Extract the repeated "<prefix>/package" key into a named constant.
- Add a round-trip spec covering the Job pod template.

Part of #300.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* test(operator): assert package fields and guard typed-nil in helpers

Address the follow-up review on #313:
- Guard the metadata helpers against typed-nil interface values. Widening from
  *corev1.Pod to metav1.Object weakened the original nil check — obj == nil misses
  a (*corev1.Pod)(nil) and would panic in GetAnnotations. A small isNil helper
  (reflect-based) catches both a nil interface and a typed-nil pointer; used by all
  four helpers. Adds a spec proving a typed-nil object is treated as absent.
- The round-trip spec now asserts Version/Image/ContainerSHA against the source
  package, not just cross-resource equality, so a serialization regression is caught.

Part of #300.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* fix(operator): guard nil package in InvalidatePackage/IsInvalidPackage

GetPackage returns (nil, nil) when the package annotation is absent, so
pkg.Invalid = true and return pkg.Invalid would panic for an object without
package metadata. Now that these helpers accept any metav1.Object (and Job
handling will call them on Jobs), guard nil: InvalidatePackage no-ops and
IsInvalidPackage reports false. Adds a regression spec for unannotated objects.

Addresses CodeRabbit review on #313.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(operator): recast em-dashes in package annotation comments

Repo prose style prefers colon/comma over em-dashes in doc comments (review on #313).

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* feat(operator): add Job builders and stage-timeout/TTL options (#301)

Adds the batch/v1 Job builders for the package-execution-as-Jobs migration, not
yet wired into reconcile (ApplyPackage/Interrupt still create raw pods until #303).

- job_builder.go: createJobFromPackage / createInterruptJobFromPackage. Each wraps
  the pod the operator builds today (createPodFromPackage / createInterruptPodForPackage)
  so the executor shape can't drift, then applies the Job differences: the forever
  pause container becomes an exit-0 container so the pod can reach Succeeded;
  package Jobs use restartPolicy Never + effectively-unlimited backoffLimit +
  podFailurePolicy Ignore-on-DisruptionTarget (disruptions stay silent); interrupt
  Jobs keep OnFailure with no podFailurePolicy; podReplacementPolicy Failed;
  ttlSecondsAfterFinished unset at creation; unbounded not-ready/unreachable NoExecute
  tolerations; labels name/package/stage/node/generation (+interrupt) on the Job and
  its pod template, full resource-id as an annotation, node label hashed for long names.
- CRD: additive Package.stageTimeout (*metav1.Duration) -> Job activeDeadlineSeconds
  (package value else JOB_STAGE_TIMEOUT default; 0 omits the deadline). Added to the
  legacy source and regenerated into the nodewright group; webhook validation
  (non-negative); conversion + zero-value-guard fixture; chart CRD mirror.
- Options: JOB_TTL_SUCCEEDED (1h) / JOB_TTL_FAILED (24h) / JOB_STAGE_TIMEOUT (1h)
  with Validate() floors (TTLs >= 1m, stage timeout >= 0).
- Extracted pauseContainerName/interruptLabelValue/shellBinary constants (goconst).

No prod behavior change; the field/options/builders are consumed starting in #303.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* fix(operator): round up stage deadline; add admission and edge tests

Adversarial review follow-up on #301:
- activeDeadlineSeconds now rounds up via math.Ceil. A positive sub-second
  stageTimeout (e.g. 500ms, reachable since the webhook only rejects < 0)
  truncated with int64(d.Seconds()) to 0 — and activeDeadlineSeconds: 0
  insta-fails every Job, so the package could never complete. Any positive
  timeout now yields at least a 1s deadline.
- Tests: sub-second stageTimeout (=> 1s); gracefulShutdown + imagePullSecret
  carry-through to the pod template; interrupt Job activeDeadlineSeconds; and an
  envtest that Creates both Job kinds against the apiserver, validating the
  podFailurePolicy x restartPolicy x podReplacementPolicy x activeDeadlineSeconds
  field combinations that struct-level tests can't see admission for.

The reviewer's second flag (Never + MaxInt32 vs the design's OnFailure/backoffLimit:0)
was a false positive: that quotes the superseded pre-rework model. This implements
the final approved design (Never + failed-attempt archive + Ignore-on-DisruptionTarget).

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* chore(chart): mirror stageTimeout into the nodewright CRD

The rebased fix/api-rename base now ships chart/templates/nodewright-crd.yaml
(the nodewright.nvidia.com CRD chart mirror). The package stageTimeout field
added in this series must appear there too, alongside the existing mirror into
chart/templates/skyhook-crd.yaml.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* refactor(operator): author new API fields in the nodewright group only (#301)

The nodewright group was a schema-frozen textual-rename mirror of the legacy skyhook
types (gen_nodewright.sh), so new fields had to be added to the deprecated skyhook API
and mirrored across. That guard only has value during the rename bridge; the skyhook
group is removed next release. Retire the mirror so new API surface lands on nodewright
only (review: lockwobr on #316):

- delete scripts/gen_nodewright.sh; drop generate-nodewright from the manifests/generate
  prereqs and remove the generate-nodewright and verify-nodewright-gen make targets;
- un-generate the nodewright group (drop the gen_nodewright DO-NOT-EDIT markers from its
  5 source files; deepcopy and CRDs stay controller-gen-owned);
- remove Package.stageTimeout from the legacy skyhook API (types, webhook, webhook test,
  conversion + its test, skyhook CRD, chart skyhook-crd.yaml) and keep it native in the
  nodewright API. job_builder.go already reads the nodewright field, so no behavior change.

Also recast em-dashes in job_builder.go doc comments per repo prose style.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* test(operator): set Job TTL options in the legacy-workload migration test

The Job builders (#301) add JobTTLSucceeded/JobTTLFailed validation to
SkyhookOperatorOptions; the legacy-workload migration test (from the rename)
must set them or NewSkyhookReconciler rejects the options.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* feat(operator): dal Job accessors and Job event mapper (#302)

First increment of the Job-controller work for the package-execution-as-Jobs
migration. Not wired into reconcile yet.

- dal: GetJob / GetJobs mirroring GetPod / GetPods (+ regenerated DAL mock).
- job_controller.go: jobHandlerFunc maps Job events into the single reconcile
  queue as "job---<name>" requests (mirrors podHandlerFunc's "pod---<name>"
  routing), gated on the skyhook name label so only Jobs we own are enqueued.

JobReconcile / jobMatchesPackage and the pod-log-tail accessor land next.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(operator): recast em-dashes in jobHandlerFunc comment

Repo prose style prefers commas over em-dashes in doc comments (review on #313).

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* feat(operator): jobMatchesPackage staleness check (#302)

Adds jobMatchesPackage, the Job analogue of podMatchesPackage: does an existing
stage Job still match what the operator would build for this package+stage now?
Later increments use it to decide, on an AlreadyExists race or a validation
sweep, whether a Job is stale and must be replaced. Still unwired.

The Job builder wraps the raw pod without changing its initContainers or the
package label — the only things podMatchesPackage compares — so this reuses
podMatchesPackage on the Job's pod template rather than duplicating (and risking
drift in) the env-filtering / resource comparison.

Next increment: JobReconcile (completion recording + state-recorded marker +
outcome TTL + DeadlineExceeded/park + failed-attempt pruner + FailureTarget
log-tail snapshot) and dal.GetPodLogTail.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* fix(operator): guard init-container count in podMatchesPackage; harden jobMatchesPackage tests

Address CodeRabbit + adversarial review on #319:
- podMatchesPackage indexed expectedPod.Spec.InitContainers[i] by the actual
  chain's length, so an extra actual init container panicked and a missing one
  silently matched. Add a length check before the compare — this fixes both the
  pod and the Job path (jobMatchesPackage delegates here).
- jobMatchesPackage specs: add a negative interrupt case (drifted version), an
  image-change case (package label matches but the init-copy image differs), and
  an init-container count-mismatch case (extra + missing, must return false
  without panicking). Vary the arbitrary argEncode/stage the still-unwired
  interrupt builder receives, and note that init-container Args are intentionally
  not part of the match.
- Tighten the jobMatchesPackage doc comment: podMatchesPackage also branches on
  the interrupt label and compares init-container resources, not just the label.

Part of #302.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(operator): recast em-dashes in jobMatchesPackage comments

Repo prose style prefers colon/comma over em-dashes in doc comments (review on #313).

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* fix(operator): guard podMatchesPackage against init-container count drift

The compare loop walks the actual pod's init containers while indexing the
expected slice, so an actual pod carrying more init containers than the operator
builds panics with an index-out-of-range. podMatchesPackage runs on real cluster
pods from the raw-pod path (skyhook_controller.go), and no RecoverPanic is
configured, so an admission webhook injecting an init container takes the manager
down rather than failing one reconcile. The same missing check let the opposite
case pass silently: a pod with a container missing was never compared on it and
matched. Compare lengths first, which covers both.

The panic is what the "does not match (and does not panic) when the init-container
count differs" spec was written for; it was failing.

Also move jobMatchesPackage next to podMatchesPackage in job_builder.go, with its
specs beside the podMatchesPackage ones, rather than reviving job_controller.go.
That file was deleted when Job events moved onto the global delay handler, and the
base merge resolved the delete/modify conflict by restoring it whole, bringing
back jobHandlerFunc and its "job---" routing alongside the globalDelayHandler case
that replaced it.

Signed-off-by: Brian Lockwood <lockwobr@gmail.com>

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Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Lockwood <lockwobr@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Brian Lockwood <lockwobr@gmail.com>
…il (#302 part 2b) (#348)

* feat(operator): JobReconcile completion recording and dal.GetPodLogTail (#302)

Second increment of #302 (part 2b), stacked on #319. Adds the completion/
failure authority for the Jobs execution path plus the pod-log tail it needs.
Deliberately NOT wired into reconcile yet (no Job watch, no job--- routing, no
new RBAC) — the swap lands in #303 — so there is no prod behavior change.

dal.GetPodLogTail: client-go clientset-backed pod-log tail (the controller-runtime
client cannot read log subresources), threaded via dal.New -> NewSkyhookReconciler
-> cmd/manager/main.go and mocked. The read is a thin clientset call plus a pure
tailAndSanitize helper (bounded memory, true tail, valid UTF-8) under a 10s timeout
so a slow/unreachable kubelet cannot stall the single reconcile pass.

JobReconcile: invalid->foreground-delete; Complete->record node state once (guarded
so a re-served event after a crash between the node write and the state-recorded
marker cannot lose, duplicate, or regress a stage) + success TTL; Failed/DeadlineExceeded
->erroring + park + failure TTL; Failed/other->backstop marker, no state write;
FailureTarget->best-effort last-logs snapshot, stale-on-unreachable-node erroring, and
requeue-until-stale. The failed-attempt pruner keeps two archives - the first genuine
failure (likely root cause) and the most recent - excluding disruption casualties.

Verification: controller suite 236/236, dal tests, make lint 0 issues, gofmt clean.
Adversarial review (opus) found no blockers; its findings (bounded log context,
FailureTarget requeue, pkg-nil logging, interrupt guard) are folded in.

Docs: design doc updated for the two-archive pruner.
Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* fix(operator): retry stale-FailureTarget erroring write on error (#302)

handleActiveJob logged and swallowed a failed recordStaleFailureTarget, so on an
unreachable node — which emits no further Job events — the erroring evidence was
deferred to the next informer resync. Return the error instead so it escapes to the
work queue for a backoff retry, per the repo's error-escape convention. Adds a test
that forces the node patch to fail and asserts JobReconcile surfaces the error.

Addresses CodeRabbit review on #348.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(operator): recast em-dashes in JobReconcile/dal comments

Repo prose style prefers colon/semicolon/comma over em-dashes in doc comments (review on #313).

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* test(operator): pass the clientset to NewSkyhookReconciler in the migration test

#302 threads a kubernetes.Interface into NewSkyhookReconciler for the pod-log
tail; the legacy-workload migration test (from the rename) must pass a fake
clientset to match the new signature.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* fix(operator): bound the log tail server-side and requeue only the grace left

GetLogs streamed the whole container log and tailAndSanitize discarded all but
the tail locally. Paired with podLogStreamTimeout that inverts the feature: a
stage that ran to its deadline producing steady output times out and yields no
snapshot at all, so the evidence is lost in exactly the case it exists for. Bound
it with TailLines, not LimitBytes, which reads from the start and would return
the head; tailAndSanitize still applies the byte cap.

handleActiveJob requeued a fresh full failureTargetGrace no matter how much of
the window had already elapsed, so a Job four minutes into a five-minute window
waited another five before its stale check re-fired. Requeue the remainder, with
a second of slack so the wake-up lands past the boundary instead of a hair short
and burning another window.

Also wrap the two bare errors in recordStaleFailureTarget and split their
conditions, which conflated a lookup failure with an absent object.

The design doc said the snapshot "retries once when the Job goes terminal",
contradicting its own paragraph four sentences earlier: deadline expiry deletes
the pod the logs live on, so there is nothing left to read once the Job is
terminal. Replaced with the real behavior and the cost of missing the window.

Signed-off-by: Brian Lockwood <lockwobr@gmail.com>

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Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Lockwood <lockwobr@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Brian Lockwood <lockwobr@gmail.com>
#350)

* feat(operator): swap package/interrupt execution to Jobs (#303 part 1)

Wire the reconcile path to create batch/v1 Jobs instead of raw pods for
package and interrupt stage execution. All Job machinery landed in #300-#302
(builders, JobReconcile, dal accessors, log tail) but was unwired; this is the
cutover.

- ApplyPackage/Interrupt build Jobs (createJobFromPackage /
  createInterruptJobFromPackage), stamp the package annotation on both the Job
  and its pod template (setJobPackage), gate creation on JobExists, and resolve
  AlreadyExists against the deterministic name via handleExistingJob.
- JobExists is the migration-window union: an unfinished Job OR a pre-upgrade
  raw pod (legacyPodExists), so a single call gates both worlds. The !jobFinished
  filter is load-bearing: retained (TTL) finished Jobs must not read as running,
  unlike pods which were reaped on completion.
- HasRunningPackages spans Jobs + legacy pods. ValidateRunningPackages becomes
  an orphan sweep: shouldDeleteFinishedJob rerun predicate, jobIsStale ->
  InvalidPackage, validateLegacyPods. TrackReboots sweeps node Jobs after Reset.
- pod_controller dual-path: Job-owned pods route to jobPodReconcile (surfaces
  in-flight erroring only; JobReconcile owns completion), legacy pods keep the
  delete-on-complete path. podFailureIsGenuine skips disruption/unknown noise.
- main.go registers a namespace-scoped Job informer. RBAC (batch/jobs,
  pods/log) mirrored into config/rbac and chart/templates.

The user-facing contract is unchanged: same labels, nodeState annotations,
metrics, CRD, and CLI. Behavioral mechanics are documented in the design doc.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* fix(operator): run the Job exit-0 container on the package image (#303)

The swap's `done` container (which replaces the forever-running pause container
so the pod can reach Succeeded) ran `/bin/sh -c "exit 0"` on the agent image.
A minimal agent image (e.g. the agentless test image on arm64) has no /bin/sh,
so the container StartErrors (exit 128), the pod never succeeds, the Job never
completes, and the skyhook hangs in_progress forever.

Use the package image instead: the init-copy container already invokes /bin/sh
from it, so the package image is guaranteed to have a shell, and it is already
pulled (no new image). Verified end-to-end on a local kind cluster (arm64,
agentless): the package Jobs now complete and the skyhook reaches complete.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* feat(operator): give package-stage Jobs their own controller

Jobs were wired as a prefixed "job---<name>" request on the Skyhook queue,
mirroring the pod path. That shape exists to serialize writers, not because it
fits: JobReconcile is already per-object and returns a per-object Result, so
routing it through the whole-world pass means folding a per-Job requeue and a
per-Job backoff into a queue that has neither. JobReconciler now owns Jobs on its
own watch, with the name-label gate as a predicate so foreign Jobs (a CronJob's,
say) never enter the workqueue rather than being filtered inside Reconcile.

That removes the serialization the unlocked node patches were relying on. Two
controllers now write nodewright.nvidia.com/nodeState_<name>, one annotation key
holding every package, so an unconditional patch would silently drop whichever
write landed second and the state-recorded marker would stop anything retrying
it. Both Job-path writes go through patchNodeState: read, mutate, patch under an
optimistic-lock precondition, retry on conflict. The guards moved inside the
retry closure, since a retry starts from state another writer just changed and a
decision made against the previous read is not reusable.

The heavy pass gets the precondition on its node patches too, where a conflict
escapes to the existing error aggregate: it cannot retry in place because the
snapshot it computed from is stale, so the pass requeues and re-derives.
TrackReboots is deliberately left unlocked, with a comment saying why. Its spec
requires the reset to land on a node whose resourceVersion moved under other
controllers, because losing it strands a stale "complete" and the package is
never reapplied.

Drops the Job case from globalDelayHandler.relevant: a Job event no longer needs
to wake the heavy pass, since the node write JobReconcile makes is itself a Node
event the existing watch already picks up.

Signed-off-by: Brian Lockwood <lockwobr@gmail.com>

* refactor(operator): drop the pod-to-Job migration window

The dual path guarded an upgrade landing while raw package pods were still
mid-flight. That state is unreachable: the rename has never shipped (no released
operator carries the nodewright API group at all), the swap ships with it, and
NodeWright reconcile is gated behind legacyMigrationHold, which holds on any
legacy Skyhook whose status is not empty/complete/paused/disabled and tells the
operator to finish, roll back, or delete it on the pre-rename operator first.
Nothing raw can be running by the time the Jobs path takes over.

So this removes validateLegacyPods, legacyPodExists, the legacy branch of the
interrupt gate, and the legacy pod deletion in the config-update path.
PodReconcile collapses to what was the Job-owned branch: the watch now only
surfaces in-flight erroring, and never deletes a pod or records completion, both
of which would race JobReconcile for the same node-state key. isJobOwnedPod and
HandleInvalidPackage lose their last callers with it; the Job path covers
invalidation through IsInvalidPackage plus a foreground delete.

Known gap, deliberately not re-covered: the hold skips paused and disabled legacy
Skyhooks, and pre-rename pause did not suspend an in-flight pod, so a Skyhook
paused mid-stage could still have one running at takeover. Narrow enough not to
justify keeping two execution paths alive for a release.

Signed-off-by: Brian Lockwood <lockwobr@gmail.com>

* test(e2e): move chainsaw assertions onto the Jobs execution model

Package pods are owned by their Job now, not by the CR directly, so every assert
naming NodeWright as the pod's owner fails against this branch. Those seven files
were staged in the e2e PR two steps down the chain, which left #350 and #351 red
in between and made a real regression indistinguishable from the expected
breakage. They are a consequence of this change, so they belong with it.

Also drops a restarts > 0 check that only held when a failed step restarted in
place; package Jobs run restartPolicy Never, so a retry is a fresh pod.

Adds assert_jobs.yaml for the half nothing covered: assert_pods.yaml proves pod
-> Job, this proves Job -> NodeWright as a controller reference, which is what
makes the whole tree GC with the CR. It also pins the run-to-completion defaults
the pod assert cannot see (unlimited backoff, podReplacementPolicy Failed,
restartPolicy Never, and the 1h JOB_STAGE_TIMEOUT default).

Signed-off-by: Brian Lockwood <lockwobr@gmail.com>

* fix(operator): scope Jobs and pod-log RBAC to the operator namespace

Cluster-wide grants the operator never exercises. Every Job it touches lives in
its own namespace: the informer is scoped there in main.go, and all six GetJobs
calls pass client.InNamespace. Pod logs are only ever read off those Jobs' child
pods for the deadline snapshot.

The namespace= field on the kubebuilder rbac markers moves both onto a Role.
kustomize's namespace transformer rewrites the literal, and the chart templates
.Release.Namespace, so nothing is pinned to the default install namespace. The
RoleBinding is hand-written because controller-gen generates roles but never
bindings.

pods/status stays cluster-wide despite sharing a generated rule with pods/log:
drain reads workload pods on any node.

Raised by review on the chart RBAC; the design doc said the role stays
cluster-scoped, which is no longer true.

Signed-off-by: Brian Lockwood <lockwobr@gmail.com>

* fix(operator): stop optimistic-locking the heavy pass's node writes

The precondition added with JobReconciler turned every concurrent write into a
conflict the pass could not recover from. It patches every node from one
whole-world snapshot, so a conflict cannot be retried in place: the state the
patch was computed from is already stale, and the pass just re-runs and
re-conflicts. e2e went from 0 conflicts to 156 on a single lifecycle run, and
three suites (config-skyhook, cleanup-pods, interrupt) stalled with node state
pinned at in_progress and the log full of "error processing skyhook".

JobReconciler keeps its own lock and retry, which does converge because a single
object can be re-read cheaply. That leaves the write race one-sided: the pass can
still overwrite a completion that landed between its read and its patch. Closing
it properly means narrowing what the pass patches, not gating a snapshot it
cannot recompute, and that is its own change.

Also drops the pod-finalization suite. It hand-created a raw pod and asserted the
Pod watch drove node state to complete, which was the legacy path; under Jobs the
operator owns node placement, so a hand-built executor cannot be attributed to a
node without pinning one, and a nodeSelector leaves the Job template's nodeName
empty. Nineteen other suites assert a package reaching complete through real
operator-driven rollouts, and the JobReconcile unit specs cover the recording
path directly.

Signed-off-by: Brian Lockwood <lockwobr@gmail.com>

* fix(operator): stop the pod watch from resurrecting node state

The pod watch recorded in-flight erroring unconditionally, so it could
create a node-state entry the operator never wrote. Under restartPolicy
Never a failing Job mints a fresh pod per attempt indefinitely, which
turns that into a repeating write with two failure modes:

- After a node-state reset, the next attempt re-pins the package to the
  stage the reset just cleared. jobIsStale then reads the Job as matching
  node state, so the sweep never invalidates it and JobExists gates the
  package forever: the reset can never take effect. This is the
  cleanup-pods e2e failure.
- A pod for a package absent from the spec writes an entry for a package
  that was never applied, polluting node state and flipping the Skyhook to
  erroring. This is the interrupt e2e failure, which HandleInvalidPackage
  used to mask by deleting the pod.

Guard the write the way JobReconcile's shouldRecordCompletion and
recordJobErroring already are: record only when the entry is present,
still at this pod's stage, and not already complete. The pod watch is
evidence, not authority.

Finish the controller split started for Jobs:

- The pod watch becomes a real controller (PodReconciler) instead of a
  pod---<name> request routed through the heavy pass, so it gets a real
  requeue and its own backoff.
- Both per-object controllers hold their own dependencies rather than
  embedding SkyhookReconciler. Embedding inherited a Reconcile each had to
  shadow, so deleting the shadow would still compile and silently run the
  whole-world pass on every pod or Job event.
- patchNodeState and deleteJobForeground become free functions, the only
  two helpers with callers on both sides.
- The Job env knobs group into JobOperatorOptions, embedded in
  SkyhookOperatorOptions so field promotion leaves the builder chain and
  Validate untouched, and the env names stay flat.

Leaving the heavy pass's single-threaded queue means the pod watch no
longer serializes against it, so its node-state write now goes through the
optimistic-locked patchNodeState like the Job path. That retry re-reads the
Node uncached from attempt 1 onward: dal reads through the cached client,
and the informer has usually not seen the write that just beat us, so a
cached re-read rebuilds the same doomed precondition and burns every
attempt. Attempt 0 stays cached, so the hot path costs nothing extra.

Narrow the cache and RBAC to the operator namespace for the kinds that
never leave it. ConfigMaps and Secrets join Jobs: all ConfigMap access
already passes InNamespace and a package's spec.configMap is mounted by the
kubelet rather than read, and the only Secret is the operator's own webhook
serving cert. Cache scope and RBAC scope have to move together, since a
cluster-wide informer under a namespaced Role is rejected at LIST/WATCH —
which is why webhookBootstrapMgr, a second manager that owns the only
Secret watch, gets its own scoped cache here. Pods stay cluster-wide: drain
must see workload pods on any node, and scoping them would report a node
drained while workloads still run. The reasoning for every kind, scoped or
not, is recorded at the cache options.

Removes the unreachable StateComplete half of UpdateNodeState, and corrects
three comments that described a legacy raw-pod path deleted with the
migration window.

Signed-off-by: Brian Lockwood <lockwobr@gmail.com>

* fix(e2e): drop the unsatisfiable conditions filter from cleanup-pods

The precondition assert added for the reset check also required bb's config
Job to be unfinished:

    status:
      (conditions[?type == 'Complete' && status == 'True']): []

An active Job has no status.conditions field at all, so that filter
evaluates to null rather than an empty list and the assert can never pass
while the Job is running — it failed with "Invalid value: null: value is
null" against a Job that was present and correct.

Existence is the whole precondition the assert needs: the step above
already waits for the Skyhook to report erroring, so this Job cannot have
completed. Drop the status clause and note why a conditions filter does not
belong here.

Signed-off-by: Brian Lockwood <lockwobr@gmail.com>

* revert(operator): leave the ConfigMap cache and RBAC cluster-wide

Scoping the ConfigMap informer to the operator namespace correlated with
intermittent apply-to-config stalls in e2e/core: simple-update-skyhook and
simple-skyhook timed out with a package parked at apply/in_progress, on a
different k8s version each run. No mechanism has been identified — every
ConfigMap access site passes client.InNamespace and a package's
spec.configMap is a kubelet-resolved mount rather than an operator read —
so this backs the change out as a single-variable bisect rather than as a
diagnosis.

Cache scope and RBAC scope move together: a cluster-wide informer under a
namespaced Role is rejected at LIST/WATCH, so the kubebuilder marker and
the chart mirror revert with it.

Jobs and Secrets stay scoped. Secrets are not exercised by e2e at all
(make run sets ENABLE_WEBHOOKS=false, so the manager owning the only Secret
watch never starts), and Jobs have been scoped since c274004, well before
these failures appeared.

The reasoning for re-scoping ConfigMaps later is kept at the cache options
so the memory win is not lost, with a note not to re-apply it without a
reproduction first.

Signed-off-by: Brian Lockwood <lockwobr@gmail.com>

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Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Lockwood <lockwobr@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Brian Lockwood <lockwobr@gmail.com>
* feat(operator): cascade pause to Job suspension (#303 part 2)

Give the Emergency Stop teeth: while a Skyhook is paused, set spec.suspend=true
on all of its unfinished Jobs so the Job controller SIGTERMs the running pod and
starts nothing until resume; clear it on resume. Before this, pause only blocked
new stage scheduling and an in-flight stage ran to completion.

- suspendUnfinishedJobs runs in the paused branch; resumeSuspendedJobs runs in
  the non-paused branch AFTER validateAndUpsertSkyhookData. The ordering is
  load-bearing: validation invalidates any Job whose spec changed while paused
  (returning update=true, which early-returns the loop), so resume only clears
  suspend on survivors. Clearing first could launch one stale-spec attempt.
- The shared worker skips finished Jobs (Suspended is not terminal, so an
  unfinished suspended Job still gates existence and never records completion),
  invalid Jobs (mid-reap), and Jobs already at the desired suspend state.
- The stage deadline pauses with the Job: suspension clears the Job start time,
  so activeDeadlineSeconds stops ticking and a resumed stage gets a full timeout
  (native Job behavior, no code).
- Legacy raw pods can't suspend; pause keeps let-finish semantics for them until
  the migration window closes. docs/cli.md notes the version-dependent stop
  strength.

Node state stays in_progress across a suspend: the killed pod carries a
DeletionTimestamp, so erroring-evidence guard (c) keeps pod evidence silent.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* fix(operator): merge-patch spec.suspend, and cover the cascade in e2e

Two review findings from #351.

Patch spec.suspend instead of Updating the Job. The Jobs come from a cached
list, and the Job controller rewrites Job status constantly — flipping
suspend itself deletes the pod and produces more status writes — so a full
Update carries a resourceVersion that is already stale and 409s for no
reason. No optimistic lock: the operator is the only writer of spec.suspend
and sets an absolute value rather than a read-modify-write, so last-write-
wins is correct here. Same tradeoff the Node patches document in
TrackReboots.

Add the pause-suspends-jobs e2e test. The unit specs cover which Jobs get
spec.suspend set, but they run against a fake client where nothing acts on
the field, so every behaviour the feature actually promises was untested:
suspension SIGTERMing the pod, node state holding at in_progress, and resume
starting a fresh pod that re-runs the stage.

The assertion worth the most is that pausing does not mark packages erroring.
A pod deleted by suspension is indistinguishable from a failed attempt to
the pod watch; only PodReconcile's DeletionTimestamp guard separates them,
and nothing else exercises it. Without that guard every pause would record
its packages as failures and count them against DeploymentPolicy budgets.

Signed-off-by: Brian Lockwood <lockwobr@gmail.com>

* fix(e2e): correct the pause-suspends-jobs fixture and precondition

Two defects found by running the test rather than only linting it.

The package version is the agentless image tag, and 1.0.0 is not published,
so the pod sat in ImagePullBackOff. Use 1.2.3, which shared-cordon-slow
already runs with SLEEP_LEN.

The precondition asserted status.phase: Running, which that pod can never
reach while the stage is in flight. Package work runs in init containers, so
the pod stays Pending for the whole stage and only reaches Running once apply
has finished — the opposite of the state this test needs. It burned the full
assert timeout waiting.

Assert instead that exactly one init container is running. Init containers
execute sequentially, so that means a step is genuinely executing, which is
what keeps the post-pause negative assertion from passing vacuously against a
pod that never started.

Verified against a kind cluster: passes in 12s, and the erroring check
observes node state holding at stage=apply state=in_progress across the
suspension.

Signed-off-by: Brian Lockwood <lockwobr@gmail.com>

* fix(e2e): poll for the executing stage instead of asserting it

The precondition assert failed in CI after 400ms on a single attempt, despite
a 240s assert timeout: CREATE at 20:41:56.233, ASSERT ERROR at 20:41:56.640.
The operator has to reconcile before any pod exists, and on a CI node that
just finished another test that is not instant — so the assert had nothing to
match. It passed locally only because a warm empty cluster produced the pod
before chainsaw's first poll.

Use a bounded polling script, the same shape as the event poll in
delete-blocked-when-paused. A resource assert carrying a status expression has
nothing to evaluate against an empty match, and rather than depend on exactly
which chainsaw semantic bites here, polling is correct either way and prints
the Jobs and pods on timeout instead of failing bare.

Local runs cannot reproduce the CI timing, so this is verified as
no-regression locally; the two k8s versions that failed are the real check.

Signed-off-by: Brian Lockwood <lockwobr@gmail.com>

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Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Lockwood <lockwobr@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Brian Lockwood <lockwobr@gmail.com>
…lk (#387)

`dag.Next(complete...)` could permanently stop offering a package that had
no `dependsOn` and had not finished yet. `leaves()` returned nil as soon as
the completed set was larger than the number of dependency-free vertices,
and the fallback walked outward from the completed set. That walk only ever
reaches children of completed vertices, and a dependency-free vertex is
nobody's child, so once it was skipped it could never be offered again.

`RunNext()` then returned a list without it, `ApplyPackage` was never called
for it, and the package parked at its last recorded stage forever. The
NodeWright stayed `in_progress` with no error, no event and no condition.

Reproduced in e2e/core as an intermittent apply-to-config stall in
`simple-update-skyhook`, which has three dependency-free packages out of
five: whichever dependency-free package happened to finish last was
stranded once the other four completed. Whether that happens depends on
which stage Job finishes last, which is why it looked like flake and moved
between Kubernetes versions.

Replace both branches of `Next` with a single scan for "not in `from`, and
every parent in `from`". That is the definition the existing specs already
encode step for step, and it cannot lose a vertex because it never depends
on reachability from the completed set.

Also fill in `parents` when a placeholder vertex is promoted. A vertex named
by a child before it was added kept an empty parent set, so the parent check
passed vacuously and it could run ahead of its dependencies. `BuildGraph`
ranges a Go map, so the add order is re-randomised on every reconcile and
the promotion happens at random. The new `Next` consults `parents` on every
vertex rather than only on walked children, so this had to be correct.

Both defects predate the Jobs migration; the graph code is unchanged on main.

Signed-off-by: Brian Lockwood <lockwobr@gmail.com>
#390)

Part of #223. Mirrors the LEGACY_CLEANUP_DELAY precedent so JOB_TTL_SUCCEEDED, JOB_TTL_FAILED, and JOB_STAGE_TIMEOUT (introduced as envconfig-only defaults in #316) are configurable instead of requiring a hand-edited Deployment.

- operator/config/manager/manager.yaml: add the three env entries, kustomize defaults matching the envconfig defaults (1h/24h/1h)
- chart/templates/deployment.yaml: add matching env entries reading from .Values.controllerManager.manager.env
- chart/values.yaml: add jobTtlSucceeded/jobTtlFailed/jobStageTimeout values (1h/24h/1h) with doc comments

No Go changes -- the envconfig fields already existed on JobOperatorOptions. JOB_BACKOFF_LIMIT is not wired since backoffLimit is still hardcoded (#373 not yet landed).

Verified: helm lint clean, helm template renders all four values correctly, no duplicate env entries.

Co-authored-by: Brian Lockwood <lockwobr@gmail.com>
#316 set the stage deadline on JobSpec.ActiveDeadlineSeconds, which is
terminal: exceeding it fails the Job permanently with no replacement pod,
so the first expiry parked. That made a timeout the one failure class with
no retry. Move the bound to the pod template so an expired attempt is Failed
and replaced like any other failure, and give up on a finite backoffLimit
instead of math.MaxInt32. No operator-side retry counter to persist.

Package Jobs now carry three bounds:

  spec.template.spec.activeDeadlineSeconds = stageTimeout   (per attempt)
  spec.backoffLimit                        = JOB_BACKOFF_LIMIT (default 3)
  spec.activeDeadlineSeconds               = derived ceiling

The ceiling is (backoffLimit+1) * (stageTimeout + gracefulShutdown + 10m),
clamped to MaxInt32. It exists only for the case a per-attempt clock cannot
bound: that clock runs from pod.Status.StartTime, which a pod the kubelet
never acknowledges never gets. gracefulShutdown is in the formula because
podReplacementPolicy Failed waits out every shutdown; without it a slow
shutdown could truncate the retry budget into a DeadlineExceeded that reads
as a hang. Deriving it rather than adding a fourth knob makes a ceiling
below the retry budget unrepresentable.

Interrupt Jobs are deliberately unchanged. Under OnFailure backoffLimit
counts container restarts, so a finite budget would be spent by the in-place
restart that is the reboot recovery, and the bound must span the reboot,
which a per-attempt clock cannot.

The park signal inverts, as #373 anticipated: BackoffLimitExceeded becomes
the park and DeadlineExceeded becomes a routine retry. Two consequences that
were not in the issue and are worth review attention:

- BackoffLimitExceeded alone is not sufficient to park. These pods carry
  spec.nodeName rather than going through the scheduler, so kubelet
  admission is the only gate they face; a node at capacity or returning
  from a reboot can reject several node-pinned replacements in a row, each
  Failed with no container statuses and no DisruptionTarget for the Ignore
  rule to match. At MaxInt32 that cost an archive slot; at 3 it exhausts the
  budget in ~70s and would park a package that never ran a line of script.
  Terminal failure is now believed only when a retained archive really
  failed. The Job-level ceiling needs no such evidence.

- pod_controller.go could not stay untouched. A pod killed by its own
  deadline whose container never started (unpullable image, missing
  configmap - the hang the deadline exists for) has no exit code, and
  podFailureIsGenuine rejects both shapes it can take. The Pod watch now
  also keys on the pod-level DeadlineExceeded reason, which nothing else
  sets; without it a hang would read in_progress for the whole retry budget,
  worse than the single deadline this replaces.

Also: shouldDeleteFinishedJob now requires the state-recorded marker for
Failed Jobs, not just Complete. A finite backoffLimit takes a Job from first
failure to terminal in about a minute, so the sweep would otherwise race the
erroring write into a fresh, equally doomed attempt.

Behavior note for the changelog: backoffLimit bounds every failure class,
not just timeouts. A crash-looping package parks after 4 attempts (~70s)
where it previously retried for the whole stageTimeout (~1h, ~10 attempts).
Packages that ride out transient environment flakiness lose that hour of
self-healing, which is why the limit is an operator knob rather than a
constant. Default stays 3 per the issue.

Docs: stageTimeout docstring and both CRD copies, the design doc's Job
shape / retry / stage-deadline / pause / finished-Job-rules / rejected-
alternatives sections and its stale skyhook_types.go path, and the erroring
row in operator-status-definitions.md (it now also means "gave up"). Chart
and kustomize both carry JOB_BACKOFF_LIMIT.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>
…-expiry text

CodeRabbit review on #402, both findings valid:

- backoffLimit: 3 permits one initial attempt plus three retries. Four
  comments described it as the attempt count; say retries and spell out
  backoffLimit+1 total attempts.
- The Log visibility section still described deadline expiry as deleting
  the running pod. That is now only true of the Job-level ceiling; a
  per-attempt expiry terminates the containers and marks the pod Failed
  with reason DeadlineExceeded in place, so the attempt survives as an
  ordinary archive with its logs. Distinguish the two and keep the
  snapshot rationale, which the ceiling case still needs.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>
CodeRabbit review on #402. The comments conflated two decisions the code
deliberately keeps apart: backoffLimit counts Failed pods, but exhausting
it only takes the Job terminal — the stage parks as erroring solely when a
retained attempt genuinely failed.

A Failed pod falls into one of three classes: an ignored disruption spends
nothing; an attempt the kubelet refused to admit spends an attempt without
being the package's failure; a genuine step failure or per-attempt timeout
spends an attempt and is. Only the third parks. Say so in the options
docstring, manager.yaml, values.yaml, and the design doc's backoffLimit
paragraph, which still claimed only genuine failures could count at all.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>
…it paragraph

CodeRabbit review on #402: the elliptical "and is" left the third failure
class without a predicate. Spell it out, keeping the parallelism with the
preceding "is not the package's failure" rather than switching terms.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>
CodeRabbit review on #402 read jobFailureIsGenuine as the sole gate on
parking and concluded that losing the archives to pod GC loses the park.
It is not the sole gate, but nothing said so, so write it down.

The park predicate is (terminal Failed, entry at (stage, erroring)) in both
places that evaluate it. jobFailureIsGenuine only decides whether the
terminal path is the one to write that entry; the Pod watch writes it live,
while the archive still exists, using the same classification. Each covers
the other's blind spot — the Pod watch survives archives being GC'd, the
terminal path survives the operator being down through the retries. Both
must miss to lose a park, and the stage then re-runs and parks on the next
cycle rather than churning.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>
…th too

CodeRabbit review on #402. shouldDeleteFinishedJob was taught to wait for
the state-recorded marker on both outcomes, but handleExistingJob — its
mirror, and the path that reaches the window first — still carved out only
unprocessed Complete Jobs. A finished Job does not satisfy JobExists, so the
next pass creates over its deterministic name; landing there before
JobReconcile processed a terminal Failed Job deleted it, taking the retained
attempts with it and restarting the stage on a fresh budget.

Generalize the carve-out to any unprocessed finished Job so both paths reach
the same verdict, and cover the ordering with specs on handleExistingJob,
which had none.

Also wrap the two propagated errors in handleFailedJob so a failure names
whether classification or the state write broke. Left jobFailureIsGenuine's
childPods error bare: childPods already contextualizes it, and its two
siblings in this file (snapshotFailureLogs, pruneFailedAttempts) pass it
through the same way.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>
Review feedback on #402. The API group is nodewright.nvidia.com on this
branch, so user-visible event text should not say skyhook.

Only the event this PR added is changed. Six pre-existing [skyhook:%s]
event strings remain in pod_controller.go and skyhook_controller.go; those
are untouched by this PR and sweeping them here would collide with other
in-flight branches in the epic.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>
* docs: add design doc for package execution as Jobs

Design companion to #223: Job shape (one Job per skyhook/package/stage/node),
completion flow with a persisted processed-once marker, outcome-based TTL,
naming/rerun rules, upgrade dual-path, and rejected alternatives incl.
podFailurePolicy for ImagePullBackOff (split to #306).

Closes #299

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): address adversarial review of Jobs migration design

Review (Fable, xhigh effort) found 3 blockers + 5 majors; all addressed:

- AlreadyExists is no longer blindly benign: GET; finished/mismatched Jobs
  are foreground-deleted + requeued, never Upserted as in_progress
- ValidateRunningPackages checks scoped to unfinished Jobs; finished Jobs
  cleaned only by TTL or a precise rerun predicate (protects retention)
- Upgrade window: JobExists/HasRunningPackages/validation are legacy-pod
  aware to prevent duplicate executors and premature interrupts
- not-ready/unreachable NoExecute tolerations so slow reboots don't evict
  the pod and fail the Job (backoffLimit: 0)
- Failed (disruption) Jobs no longer write erroring: silent re-execution,
  keeping DeploymentPolicy failure counting unchanged
- Crash-window claim corrected + stage-progress re-processing guard
- Child-pod fallback for GC'd pods; package annotation on pod template
- HandleConfigUpdates added to blast radius (delete Job, not child pod)
- Interrupt Job name formula kept; metrics dead-code note; namespace-scoped
  Jobs informer; node-label length fallback; podReplacementPolicy rationale

Also: TTL knobs named as chart values controllerManager.manager.env.jobTtl*
Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): fix Job backoff model per review; address CodeRabbit findings

The load-bearing correction (CodeRabbit, confirmed against Job controller
semantics): with restartPolicy: OnFailure the Job controller counts the sum
of container restarts (init containers included) toward backoffLimit and
terminates the pod at the limit — backoffLimit: 0 would kill a package on
its first step retry. backoffLimit is now effectively unlimited
(math.MaxInt32); retry ownership stays with kubelet in-place restarts, pod
loss self-heals via the Job controller's replacement pod (nodeName-pinned
template), and Job Failed becomes a backstop-only branch.

Also, from CodeRabbit + a second adversarial review pass:

- AlreadyExists must never delete a Complete-but-unrecorded Job (requeue;
  JobReconcile owns unprocessed completions)
- child pods selected by batch.kubernetes.io/controller-uid, not job-name
- containerName GC-fallback defined (interrupt label determines it)
- Failed-path marker/TTL write specified; node-NotFound completion handling
- postcondition guard now enumerates the interrupt/ProgressSkipped case
- HasRunningPackages defined over unfinished Jobs (pod-based reading would
  stall interrupts behind retained Succeeded pods for the TTL window)
- fourth legacy accommodation: HandleConfigUpdates keeps direct deletion of
  legacy erroring pods during the upgrade window
- orphaned-node sweep covers Jobs of deleted nodes regardless of status
- uninstall retention carve-outs documented; podReplacementPolicy gate-off
  wording honest; generation-label note fixed; in-flight hyphenation

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): add per-package stage deadline with parked failures and log-tail snapshot

Enhancement over today's model (per review discussion): a stage that runs
past its deadline — hung, crash-looping, or unpullable — is failed and
surfaced instead of churning or hanging invisibly forever.

- New additive SCR field Package.stageTimeout (metav1.Duration, follows
  gracefulShutdown pattern) -> Job activeDeadlineSeconds; operator default
  JOB_STAGE_TIMEOUT (1h, chart controllerManager.manager.env.jobStageTimeout),
  "0" disables. The one CRD change in the migration; additive, no shim.
- DeadlineExceeded is a first-class failure: state -> erroring (new signal
  for hung stages; DeploymentPolicy sees stuck nodes), Job parked as the
  marker that stops recreation until rerun/reset/config-update or
  JOB_TTL_FAILED expiry (deliberate slow-retry cadence). Rules 2/3 gain the
  park exception; other Failed reasons stay the silent backstop.
- Log-tail snapshot: on FailureTarget (pods still terminating) the operator
  captures the stuck container's last ~16KiB via the pod-logs API into the
  skyhook.nvidia.com/last-logs Job annotation, so the parked tombstone stays
  debuggable after the deadline deletes the pod. Best-effort, never blocks
  the park path. Needs pods/log get RBAC + a client-go clientset seam in dal.
- Honest caveat retained: full post-deadline container logs live in
  SKYHOOK_LOG_DIR host logs / log aggregation.
- Rejected alternative documented: restartPolicy Never + small backoffLimit
  (retains failed pods but can't catch hangs, changes retry substrate).

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): pause cascades to Job suspension

Second deliberate enhancement: skyhook.nvidia.com/pause now halts in-flight
stages instead of letting them finish. UpdatePauseStatus sets spec.suspend
on the Skyhook's unfinished Jobs (annotation stays the user-facing
primitive; suspension is enforcement). SIGTERM mid-step is the same
recovery shape as reboot/eviction — agent flag files skip completed steps
on resume. Suspension clears/resets Job startTime, so the stage deadline
stops ticking while paused and resets fresh on resume — closing the bad
interaction where a paused-but-running stage could hit its deadline and
park as erroring. Suspended Jobs stay unfinished for JobExists/validation;
interrupts that already fired a reboot converge via the resource-id flag;
legacy pods keep let-finish semantics during the upgrade window (CLI docs
must note the version-dependent strength). disable is unchanged. Replaces
the earlier 'Rejected: suspend as pause primitive' section — the
no-checkpointing cost is now accepted deliberately.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): switch package Jobs to restartPolicy Never with failed-attempt archive

Reworks the retry substrate (maintainer direction + review pass 3):

- Package/stage Jobs: restartPolicy Never — each attempt is a fresh pod;
  the operator prunes Failed pods keeping ONE full-log archive (newest
  Failed without DisruptionTarget, by creationTimestamp; normal deletion
  only). kubectl logs on the last real failure works during retries, past
  the deadline, and through a pause — superseding the 16KiB snapshot for
  genuinely-failing stages (snapshot remains for hangs and never-started
  containers, now also recording Waiting reason+message, e.g.
  ImagePullBackOff + registry error).
- podFailurePolicy Ignore-on-DisruptionTarget: evictions/preemption/PodGC
  count nothing and stay silent. backoffLimit stays MaxInt32 (counts
  Failed pods under Never).
- INTERRUPT Jobs keep OnFailure (no podFailurePolicy): a reboot interrupt
  kills its own pod by design; Never would mint a spurious failed attempt
  per successful reboot.
- Erroring evidence guards: no DisruptionTarget, real terminal verdict
  (skip ContainerStatusUnknown + admission rejections), and
  DeletionTimestamp unset — pause suspension, rule deletions, sweeps and
  manual pod deletes stay silent (review pass 3 blocker).
- Resume half of the pause cascade gets an explicit owner and ordering
  (after ValidateRunningPackages; invalidate stale suspended Jobs first).
- New rule 5: REAPPLY_ON_REBOOT reset sweeps the node's Jobs regardless
  of status — pre-reboot completions must not land on reset state.
- Honest deltas documented: hard-crash 137/Error can flap erroring once;
  admission-rejected pods count attempts (replaces a worse latent wedge
  where such a raw pod satisfies PodExists forever); attempts figure now
  job.status.failed (user-visible nodeState/CLI improvement); deadline on
  an unreachable node surfaces via stale FailureTarget as erroring;
  stageTimeout "0" omits activeDeadlineSeconds; HandleConfigUpdates
  scoped to unfinished/parked Jobs; Complete path reads the Succeeded pod.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): restructure Jobs migration doc for readability

Address maintainer review (@lockwobr): the substance was approved but the
layering buried it. Restructure without cutting the analysis:

- add a TL;DR decision table up top so the shape reads in 60 seconds
- describe behavior by role in the narrative; move Go symbols and file
  references to a baseline section and a new References block
- drop exact constants and most inline cross-references from the prose
- collapse the defensive material (crash-window guards, hard-crash deltas,
  admission edge, erroring guards, pruner safety) into an
  'Edge cases and correctness arguments' appendix
- collapse Rejected alternatives to a table, keeping only the central
  Never-vs-OnFailure decision in full

Also fixes the meta-lint failure: the Goals list had a duplicate '4.'
(MD029/ol-prefix); it is now sequential 1-5.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* refactor(operator): package annotation helpers accept any client.Object (#300) (#313)

* refactor(operator): package annotation helpers accept any client.Object

GetPackage/SetPackages/InvalidatePackage/IsInvalidPackage only ever touch an
object's annotations, but were typed to *corev1.Pod. Widen them to
client.Object (using GetAnnotations/SetAnnotations instead of the .Annotations
field) so the same package metadata can ride on batch/v1 Jobs and their pod
templates — the first step of the package-execution-as-Jobs migration (#223).

No behavior change: every call site passes a *corev1.Pod, which already
satisfies client.Object. Adds a round-trip spec proving SetPackages -> GetPackage
(and the invalidate path) behaves identically on a *batchv1.Job and a *corev1.Pod.

Part of #300.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* refactor(operator): use metav1.Object for package annotation helpers

Address review on #313:
- Widen to metav1.Object instead of client.Object. The Job pod template
  (*corev1.PodTemplateSpec) satisfies metav1.Object but not client.Object
  (it has no runtime.Object methods), and the Job builder (#301) sets the
  package annotation on job.Spec.Template. metav1.Object is also the more
  precise seam, since these helpers only ever touch metadata.
- Extract the repeated "<prefix>/package" key into a named constant.
- Add a round-trip spec covering the Job pod template.

Part of #300.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* test(operator): assert package fields and guard typed-nil in helpers

Address the follow-up review on #313:
- Guard the metadata helpers against typed-nil interface values. Widening from
  *corev1.Pod to metav1.Object weakened the original nil check — obj == nil misses
  a (*corev1.Pod)(nil) and would panic in GetAnnotations. A small isNil helper
  (reflect-based) catches both a nil interface and a typed-nil pointer; used by all
  four helpers. Adds a spec proving a typed-nil object is treated as absent.
- The round-trip spec now asserts Version/Image/ContainerSHA against the source
  package, not just cross-resource equality, so a serialization regression is caught.

Part of #300.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* fix(operator): guard nil package in InvalidatePackage/IsInvalidPackage

GetPackage returns (nil, nil) when the package annotation is absent, so
pkg.Invalid = true and return pkg.Invalid would panic for an object without
package metadata. Now that these helpers accept any metav1.Object (and Job
handling will call them on Jobs), guard nil: InvalidatePackage no-ops and
IsInvalidPackage reports false. Adds a regression spec for unannotated objects.

Addresses CodeRabbit review on #313.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(operator): recast em-dashes in package annotation comments

Repo prose style prefers colon/comma over em-dashes in doc comments (review on #313).

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

---------

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* feat(operator): Job builders and stage-timeout/TTL options (#301) (#316)

* docs: add design doc for package execution as Jobs

Design companion to #223: Job shape (one Job per skyhook/package/stage/node),
completion flow with a persisted processed-once marker, outcome-based TTL,
naming/rerun rules, upgrade dual-path, and rejected alternatives incl.
podFailurePolicy for ImagePullBackOff (split to #306).

Closes #299

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): address adversarial review of Jobs migration design

Review (Fable, xhigh effort) found 3 blockers + 5 majors; all addressed:

- AlreadyExists is no longer blindly benign: GET; finished/mismatched Jobs
  are foreground-deleted + requeued, never Upserted as in_progress
- ValidateRunningPackages checks scoped to unfinished Jobs; finished Jobs
  cleaned only by TTL or a precise rerun predicate (protects retention)
- Upgrade window: JobExists/HasRunningPackages/validation are legacy-pod
  aware to prevent duplicate executors and premature interrupts
- not-ready/unreachable NoExecute tolerations so slow reboots don't evict
  the pod and fail the Job (backoffLimit: 0)
- Failed (disruption) Jobs no longer write erroring: silent re-execution,
  keeping DeploymentPolicy failure counting unchanged
- Crash-window claim corrected + stage-progress re-processing guard
- Child-pod fallback for GC'd pods; package annotation on pod template
- HandleConfigUpdates added to blast radius (delete Job, not child pod)
- Interrupt Job name formula kept; metrics dead-code note; namespace-scoped
  Jobs informer; node-label length fallback; podReplacementPolicy rationale

Also: TTL knobs named as chart values controllerManager.manager.env.jobTtl*
Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): fix Job backoff model per review; address CodeRabbit findings

The load-bearing correction (CodeRabbit, confirmed against Job controller
semantics): with restartPolicy: OnFailure the Job controller counts the sum
of container restarts (init containers included) toward backoffLimit and
terminates the pod at the limit — backoffLimit: 0 would kill a package on
its first step retry. backoffLimit is now effectively unlimited
(math.MaxInt32); retry ownership stays with kubelet in-place restarts, pod
loss self-heals via the Job controller's replacement pod (nodeName-pinned
template), and Job Failed becomes a backstop-only branch.

Also, from CodeRabbit + a second adversarial review pass:

- AlreadyExists must never delete a Complete-but-unrecorded Job (requeue;
  JobReconcile owns unprocessed completions)
- child pods selected by batch.kubernetes.io/controller-uid, not job-name
- containerName GC-fallback defined (interrupt label determines it)
- Failed-path marker/TTL write specified; node-NotFound completion handling
- postcondition guard now enumerates the interrupt/ProgressSkipped case
- HasRunningPackages defined over unfinished Jobs (pod-based reading would
  stall interrupts behind retained Succeeded pods for the TTL window)
- fourth legacy accommodation: HandleConfigUpdates keeps direct deletion of
  legacy erroring pods during the upgrade window
- orphaned-node sweep covers Jobs of deleted nodes regardless of status
- uninstall retention carve-outs documented; podReplacementPolicy gate-off
  wording honest; generation-label note fixed; in-flight hyphenation

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): add per-package stage deadline with parked failures and log-tail snapshot

Enhancement over today's model (per review discussion): a stage that runs
past its deadline — hung, crash-looping, or unpullable — is failed and
surfaced instead of churning or hanging invisibly forever.

- New additive SCR field Package.stageTimeout (metav1.Duration, follows
  gracefulShutdown pattern) -> Job activeDeadlineSeconds; operator default
  JOB_STAGE_TIMEOUT (1h, chart controllerManager.manager.env.jobStageTimeout),
  "0" disables. The one CRD change in the migration; additive, no shim.
- DeadlineExceeded is a first-class failure: state -> erroring (new signal
  for hung stages; DeploymentPolicy sees stuck nodes), Job parked as the
  marker that stops recreation until rerun/reset/config-update or
  JOB_TTL_FAILED expiry (deliberate slow-retry cadence). Rules 2/3 gain the
  park exception; other Failed reasons stay the silent backstop.
- Log-tail snapshot: on FailureTarget (pods still terminating) the operator
  captures the stuck container's last ~16KiB via the pod-logs API into the
  skyhook.nvidia.com/last-logs Job annotation, so the parked tombstone stays
  debuggable after the deadline deletes the pod. Best-effort, never blocks
  the park path. Needs pods/log get RBAC + a client-go clientset seam in dal.
- Honest caveat retained: full post-deadline container logs live in
  SKYHOOK_LOG_DIR host logs / log aggregation.
- Rejected alternative documented: restartPolicy Never + small backoffLimit
  (retains failed pods but can't catch hangs, changes retry substrate).

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): pause cascades to Job suspension

Second deliberate enhancement: skyhook.nvidia.com/pause now halts in-flight
stages instead of letting them finish. UpdatePauseStatus sets spec.suspend
on the Skyhook's unfinished Jobs (annotation stays the user-facing
primitive; suspension is enforcement). SIGTERM mid-step is the same
recovery shape as reboot/eviction — agent flag files skip completed steps
on resume. Suspension clears/resets Job startTime, so the stage deadline
stops ticking while paused and resets fresh on resume — closing the bad
interaction where a paused-but-running stage could hit its deadline and
park as erroring. Suspended Jobs stay unfinished for JobExists/validation;
interrupts that already fired a reboot converge via the resource-id flag;
legacy pods keep let-finish semantics during the upgrade window (CLI docs
must note the version-dependent strength). disable is unchanged. Replaces
the earlier 'Rejected: suspend as pause primitive' section — the
no-checkpointing cost is now accepted deliberately.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): switch package Jobs to restartPolicy Never with failed-attempt archive

Reworks the retry substrate (maintainer direction + review pass 3):

- Package/stage Jobs: restartPolicy Never — each attempt is a fresh pod;
  the operator prunes Failed pods keeping ONE full-log archive (newest
  Failed without DisruptionTarget, by creationTimestamp; normal deletion
  only). kubectl logs on the last real failure works during retries, past
  the deadline, and through a pause — superseding the 16KiB snapshot for
  genuinely-failing stages (snapshot remains for hangs and never-started
  containers, now also recording Waiting reason+message, e.g.
  ImagePullBackOff + registry error).
- podFailurePolicy Ignore-on-DisruptionTarget: evictions/preemption/PodGC
  count nothing and stay silent. backoffLimit stays MaxInt32 (counts
  Failed pods under Never).
- INTERRUPT Jobs keep OnFailure (no podFailurePolicy): a reboot interrupt
  kills its own pod by design; Never would mint a spurious failed attempt
  per successful reboot.
- Erroring evidence guards: no DisruptionTarget, real terminal verdict
  (skip ContainerStatusUnknown + admission rejections), and
  DeletionTimestamp unset — pause suspension, rule deletions, sweeps and
  manual pod deletes stay silent (review pass 3 blocker).
- Resume half of the pause cascade gets an explicit owner and ordering
  (after ValidateRunningPackages; invalidate stale suspended Jobs first).
- New rule 5: REAPPLY_ON_REBOOT reset sweeps the node's Jobs regardless
  of status — pre-reboot completions must not land on reset state.
- Honest deltas documented: hard-crash 137/Error can flap erroring once;
  admission-rejected pods count attempts (replaces a worse latent wedge
  where such a raw pod satisfies PodExists forever); attempts figure now
  job.status.failed (user-visible nodeState/CLI improvement); deadline on
  an unreachable node surfaces via stale FailureTarget as erroring;
  stageTimeout "0" omits activeDeadlineSeconds; HandleConfigUpdates
  scoped to unfinished/parked Jobs; Complete path reads the Succeeded pod.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): restructure Jobs migration doc for readability

Address maintainer review (@lockwobr): the substance was approved but the
layering buried it. Restructure without cutting the analysis:

- add a TL;DR decision table up top so the shape reads in 60 seconds
- describe behavior by role in the narrative; move Go symbols and file
  references to a baseline section and a new References block
- drop exact constants and most inline cross-references from the prose
- collapse the defensive material (crash-window guards, hard-crash deltas,
  admission edge, erroring guards, pruner safety) into an
  'Edge cases and correctness arguments' appendix
- collapse Rejected alternatives to a table, keeping only the central
  Never-vs-OnFailure decision in full

Also fixes the meta-lint failure: the Goals list had a duplicate '4.'
(MD029/ol-prefix); it is now sequential 1-5.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* refactor(operator): package annotation helpers accept any client.Object

GetPackage/SetPackages/InvalidatePackage/IsInvalidPackage only ever touch an
object's annotations, but were typed to *corev1.Pod. Widen them to
client.Object (using GetAnnotations/SetAnnotations instead of the .Annotations
field) so the same package metadata can ride on batch/v1 Jobs and their pod
templates — the first step of the package-execution-as-Jobs migration (#223).

No behavior change: every call site passes a *corev1.Pod, which already
satisfies client.Object. Adds a round-trip spec proving SetPackages -> GetPackage
(and the invalidate path) behaves identically on a *batchv1.Job and a *corev1.Pod.

Part of #300.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* refactor(operator): use metav1.Object for package annotation helpers

Address review on #313:
- Widen to metav1.Object instead of client.Object. The Job pod template
  (*corev1.PodTemplateSpec) satisfies metav1.Object but not client.Object
  (it has no runtime.Object methods), and the Job builder (#301) sets the
  package annotation on job.Spec.Template. metav1.Object is also the more
  precise seam, since these helpers only ever touch metadata.
- Extract the repeated "<prefix>/package" key into a named constant.
- Add a round-trip spec covering the Job pod template.

Part of #300.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* test(operator): assert package fields and guard typed-nil in helpers

Address the follow-up review on #313:
- Guard the metadata helpers against typed-nil interface values. Widening from
  *corev1.Pod to metav1.Object weakened the original nil check — obj == nil misses
  a (*corev1.Pod)(nil) and would panic in GetAnnotations. A small isNil helper
  (reflect-based) catches both a nil interface and a typed-nil pointer; used by all
  four helpers. Adds a spec proving a typed-nil object is treated as absent.
- The round-trip spec now asserts Version/Image/ContainerSHA against the source
  package, not just cross-resource equality, so a serialization regression is caught.

Part of #300.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* fix(operator): guard nil package in InvalidatePackage/IsInvalidPackage

GetPackage returns (nil, nil) when the package annotation is absent, so
pkg.Invalid = true and return pkg.Invalid would panic for an object without
package metadata. Now that these helpers accept any metav1.Object (and Job
handling will call them on Jobs), guard nil: InvalidatePackage no-ops and
IsInvalidPackage reports false. Adds a regression spec for unannotated objects.

Addresses CodeRabbit review on #313.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(operator): recast em-dashes in package annotation comments

Repo prose style prefers colon/comma over em-dashes in doc comments (review on #313).

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* feat(operator): add Job builders and stage-timeout/TTL options (#301)

Adds the batch/v1 Job builders for the package-execution-as-Jobs migration, not
yet wired into reconcile (ApplyPackage/Interrupt still create raw pods until #303).

- job_builder.go: createJobFromPackage / createInterruptJobFromPackage. Each wraps
  the pod the operator builds today (createPodFromPackage / createInterruptPodForPackage)
  so the executor shape can't drift, then applies the Job differences: the forever
  pause container becomes an exit-0 container so the pod can reach Succeeded;
  package Jobs use restartPolicy Never + effectively-unlimited backoffLimit +
  podFailurePolicy Ignore-on-DisruptionTarget (disruptions stay silent); interrupt
  Jobs keep OnFailure with no podFailurePolicy; podReplacementPolicy Failed;
  ttlSecondsAfterFinished unset at creation; unbounded not-ready/unreachable NoExecute
  tolerations; labels name/package/stage/node/generation (+interrupt) on the Job and
  its pod template, full resource-id as an annotation, node label hashed for long names.
- CRD: additive Package.stageTimeout (*metav1.Duration) -> Job activeDeadlineSeconds
  (package value else JOB_STAGE_TIMEOUT default; 0 omits the deadline). Added to the
  legacy source and regenerated into the nodewright group; webhook validation
  (non-negative); conversion + zero-value-guard fixture; chart CRD mirror.
- Options: JOB_TTL_SUCCEEDED (1h) / JOB_TTL_FAILED (24h) / JOB_STAGE_TIMEOUT (1h)
  with Validate() floors (TTLs >= 1m, stage timeout >= 0).
- Extracted pauseContainerName/interruptLabelValue/shellBinary constants (goconst).

No prod behavior change; the field/options/builders are consumed starting in #303.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* fix(operator): round up stage deadline; add admission and edge tests

Adversarial review follow-up on #301:
- activeDeadlineSeconds now rounds up via math.Ceil. A positive sub-second
  stageTimeout (e.g. 500ms, reachable since the webhook only rejects < 0)
  truncated with int64(d.Seconds()) to 0 — and activeDeadlineSeconds: 0
  insta-fails every Job, so the package could never complete. Any positive
  timeout now yields at least a 1s deadline.
- Tests: sub-second stageTimeout (=> 1s); gracefulShutdown + imagePullSecret
  carry-through to the pod template; interrupt Job activeDeadlineSeconds; and an
  envtest that Creates both Job kinds against the apiserver, validating the
  podFailurePolicy x restartPolicy x podReplacementPolicy x activeDeadlineSeconds
  field combinations that struct-level tests can't see admission for.

The reviewer's second flag (Never + MaxInt32 vs the design's OnFailure/backoffLimit:0)
was a false positive: that quotes the superseded pre-rework model. This implements
the final approved design (Never + failed-attempt archive + Ignore-on-DisruptionTarget).

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* chore(chart): mirror stageTimeout into the nodewright CRD

The rebased fix/api-rename base now ships chart/templates/nodewright-crd.yaml
(the nodewright.nvidia.com CRD chart mirror). The package stageTimeout field
added in this series must appear there too, alongside the existing mirror into
chart/templates/skyhook-crd.yaml.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* refactor(operator): author new API fields in the nodewright group only (#301)

The nodewright group was a schema-frozen textual-rename mirror of the legacy skyhook
types (gen_nodewright.sh), so new fields had to be added to the deprecated skyhook API
and mirrored across. That guard only has value during the rename bridge; the skyhook
group is removed next release. Retire the mirror so new API surface lands on nodewright
only (review: lockwobr on #316):

- delete scripts/gen_nodewright.sh; drop generate-nodewright from the manifests/generate
  prereqs and remove the generate-nodewright and verify-nodewright-gen make targets;
- un-generate the nodewright group (drop the gen_nodewright DO-NOT-EDIT markers from its
  5 source files; deepcopy and CRDs stay controller-gen-owned);
- remove Package.stageTimeout from the legacy skyhook API (types, webhook, webhook test,
  conversion + its test, skyhook CRD, chart skyhook-crd.yaml) and keep it native in the
  nodewright API. job_builder.go already reads the nodewright field, so no behavior change.

Also recast em-dashes in job_builder.go doc comments per repo prose style.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* test(operator): set Job TTL options in the legacy-workload migration test

The Job builders (#301) add JobTTLSucceeded/JobTTLFailed validation to
SkyhookOperatorOptions; the legacy-workload migration test (from the rename)
must set them or NewSkyhookReconciler rejects the options.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs: add design doc for package execution as Jobs

Design companion to #223: Job shape (one Job per skyhook/package/stage/node),
completion flow with a persisted processed-once marker, outcome-based TTL,
naming/rerun rules, upgrade dual-path, and rejected alternatives incl.
podFailurePolicy for ImagePullBackOff (split to #306).

Closes #299

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): address adversarial review of Jobs migration design

Review (Fable, xhigh effort) found 3 blockers + 5 majors; all addressed:

- AlreadyExists is no longer blindly benign: GET; finished/mismatched Jobs
  are foreground-deleted + requeued, never Upserted as in_progress
- ValidateRunningPackages checks scoped to unfinished Jobs; finished Jobs
  cleaned only by TTL or a precise rerun predicate (protects retention)
- Upgrade window: JobExists/HasRunningPackages/validation are legacy-pod
  aware to prevent duplicate executors and premature interrupts
- not-ready/unreachable NoExecute tolerations so slow reboots don't evict
  the pod and fail the Job (backoffLimit: 0)
- Failed (disruption) Jobs no longer write erroring: silent re-execution,
  keeping DeploymentPolicy failure counting unchanged
- Crash-window claim corrected + stage-progress re-processing guard
- Child-pod fallback for GC'd pods; package annotation on pod template
- HandleConfigUpdates added to blast radius (delete Job, not child pod)
- Interrupt Job name formula kept; metrics dead-code note; namespace-scoped
  Jobs informer; node-label length fallback; podReplacementPolicy rationale

Also: TTL knobs named as chart values controllerManager.manager.env.jobTtl*
Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): fix Job backoff model per review; address CodeRabbit findings

The load-bearing correction (CodeRabbit, confirmed against Job controller
semantics): with restartPolicy: OnFailure the Job controller counts the sum
of container restarts (init containers included) toward backoffLimit and
terminates the pod at the limit — backoffLimit: 0 would kill a package on
its first step retry. backoffLimit is now effectively unlimited
(math.MaxInt32); retry ownership stays with kubelet in-place restarts, pod
loss self-heals via the Job controller's replacement pod (nodeName-pinned
template), and Job Failed becomes a backstop-only branch.

Also, from CodeRabbit + a second adversarial review pass:

- AlreadyExists must never delete a Complete-but-unrecorded Job (requeue;
  JobReconcile owns unprocessed completions)
- child pods selected by batch.kubernetes.io/controller-uid, not job-name
- containerName GC-fallback defined (interrupt label determines it)
- Failed-path marker/TTL write specified; node-NotFound completion handling
- postcondition guard now enumerates the interrupt/ProgressSkipped case
- HasRunningPackages defined over unfinished Jobs (pod-based reading would
  stall interrupts behind retained Succeeded pods for the TTL window)
- fourth legacy accommodation: HandleConfigUpdates keeps direct deletion of
  legacy erroring pods during the upgrade window
- orphaned-node sweep covers Jobs of deleted nodes regardless of status
- uninstall retention carve-outs documented; podReplacementPolicy gate-off
  wording honest; generation-label note fixed; in-flight hyphenation

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): add per-package stage deadline with parked failures and log-tail snapshot

Enhancement over today's model (per review discussion): a stage that runs
past its deadline — hung, crash-looping, or unpullable — is failed and
surfaced instead of churning or hanging invisibly forever.

- New additive SCR field Package.stageTimeout (metav1.Duration, follows
  gracefulShutdown pattern) -> Job activeDeadlineSeconds; operator default
  JOB_STAGE_TIMEOUT (1h, chart controllerManager.manager.env.jobStageTimeout),
  "0" disables. The one CRD change in the migration; additive, no shim.
- DeadlineExceeded is a first-class failure: state -> erroring (new signal
  for hung stages; DeploymentPolicy sees stuck nodes), Job parked as the
  marker that stops recreation until rerun/reset/config-update or
  JOB_TTL_FAILED expiry (deliberate slow-retry cadence). Rules 2/3 gain the
  park exception; other Failed reasons stay the silent backstop.
- Log-tail snapshot: on FailureTarget (pods still terminating) the operator
  captures the stuck container's last ~16KiB via the pod-logs API into the
  skyhook.nvidia.com/last-logs Job annotation, so the parked tombstone stays
  debuggable after the deadline deletes the pod. Best-effort, never blocks
  the park path. Needs pods/log get RBAC + a client-go clientset seam in dal.
- Honest caveat retained: full post-deadline container logs live in
  SKYHOOK_LOG_DIR host logs / log aggregation.
- Rejected alternative documented: restartPolicy Never + small backoffLimit
  (retains failed pods but can't catch hangs, changes retry substrate).

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): pause cascades to Job suspension

Second deliberate enhancement: skyhook.nvidia.com/pause now halts in-flight
stages instead of letting them finish. UpdatePauseStatus sets spec.suspend
on the Skyhook's unfinished Jobs (annotation stays the user-facing
primitive; suspension is enforcement). SIGTERM mid-step is the same
recovery shape as reboot/eviction — agent flag files skip completed steps
on resume. Suspension clears/resets Job startTime, so the stage deadline
stops ticking while paused and resets fresh on resume — closing the bad
interaction where a paused-but-running stage could hit its deadline and
park as erroring. Suspended Jobs stay unfinished for JobExists/validation;
interrupts that already fired a reboot converge via the resource-id flag;
legacy pods keep let-finish semantics during the upgrade window (CLI docs
must note the version-dependent strength). disable is unchanged. Replaces
the earlier 'Rejected: suspend as pause primitive' section — the
no-checkpointing cost is now accepted deliberately.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): switch package Jobs to restartPolicy Never with failed-attempt archive

Reworks the retry substrate (maintainer direction + review pass 3):

- Package/stage Jobs: restartPolicy Never — each attempt is a fresh pod;
  the operator prunes Failed pods keeping ONE full-log archive (newest
  Failed without DisruptionTarget, by creationTimestamp; normal deletion
  only). kubectl logs on the last real failure works during retries, past
  the deadline, and through a pause — superseding the 16KiB snapshot for
  genuinely-failing stages (snapshot remains for hangs and never-started
  containers, now also recording Waiting reason+message, e.g.
  ImagePullBackOff + registry error).
- podFailurePolicy Ignore-on-DisruptionTarget: evictions/preemption/PodGC
  count nothing and stay silent. backoffLimit stays MaxInt32 (counts
  Failed pods under Never).
- INTERRUPT Jobs keep OnFailure (no podFailurePolicy): a reboot interrupt
  kills its own pod by design; Never would mint a spurious failed attempt
  per successful reboot.
- Erroring evidence guards: no DisruptionTarget, real terminal verdict
  (skip ContainerStatusUnknown + admission rejections), and
  DeletionTimestamp unset — pause suspension, rule deletions, sweeps and
  manual pod deletes stay silent (review pass 3 blocker).
- Resume half of the pause cascade gets an explicit owner and ordering
  (after ValidateRunningPackages; invalidate stale suspended Jobs first).
- New rule 5: REAPPLY_ON_REBOOT reset sweeps the node's Jobs regardless
  of status — pre-reboot completions must not land on reset state.
- Honest deltas documented: hard-crash 137/Error can flap erroring once;
  admission-rejected pods count attempts (replaces a worse latent wedge
  where such a raw pod satisfies PodExists forever); attempts figure now
  job.status.failed (user-visible nodeState/CLI improvement); deadline on
  an unreachable node surfaces via stale FailureTarget as erroring;
  stageTimeout "0" omits activeDeadlineSeconds; HandleConfigUpdates
  scoped to unfinished/parked Jobs; Complete path reads the Succeeded pod.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): restructure Jobs migration doc for readability

Address maintainer review (@lockwobr): the substance was approved but the
layering buried it. Restructure without cutting the analysis:

- add a TL;DR decision table up top so the shape reads in 60 seconds
- describe behavior by role in the narrative; move Go symbols and file
  references to a baseline section and a new References block
- drop exact constants and most inline cross-references from the prose
- collapse the defensive material (crash-window guards, hard-crash deltas,
  admission edge, erroring guards, pruner safety) into an
  'Edge cases and correctness arguments' appendix
- collapse Rejected alternatives to a table, keeping only the central
  Never-vs-OnFailure decision in full

Also fixes the meta-lint failure: the Goals list had a duplicate '4.'
(MD029/ol-prefix); it is now sequential 1-5.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* refactor(operator): package annotation helpers accept any client.Object (#300) (#313)

* refactor(operator): package annotation helpers accept any client.Object

GetPackage/SetPackages/InvalidatePackage/IsInvalidPackage only ever touch an
object's annotations, but were typed to *corev1.Pod. Widen them to
client.Object (using GetAnnotations/SetAnnotations instead of the .Annotations
field) so the same package metadata can ride on batch/v1 Jobs and their pod
templates — the first step of the package-execution-as-Jobs migration (#223).

No behavior change: every call site passes a *corev1.Pod, which already
satisfies client.Object. Adds a round-trip spec proving SetPackages -> GetPackage
(and the invalidate path) behaves identically on a *batchv1.Job and a *corev1.Pod.

Part of #300.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* refactor(operator): use metav1.Object for package annotation helpers

Address review on #313:
- Widen to metav1.Object instead of client.Object. The Job pod template
  (*corev1.PodTemplateSpec) satisfies metav1.Object but not client.Object
  (it has no runtime.Object methods), and the Job builder (#301) sets the
  package annotation on job.Spec.Template. metav1.Object is also the more
  precise seam, since these helpers only ever touch metadata.
- Extract the repeated "<prefix>/package" key into a named constant.
- Add a round-trip spec covering the Job pod template.

Part of #300.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* test(operator): assert package fields and guard typed-nil in helpers

Address the follow-up review on #313:
- Guard the metadata helpers against typed-nil interface values. Widening from
  *corev1.Pod to metav1.Object weakened the original nil check — obj == nil misses
  a (*corev1.Pod)(nil) and would panic in GetAnnotations. A small isNil helper
  (reflect-based) catches both a nil interface and a typed-nil pointer; used by all
  four helpers. Adds a spec proving a typed-nil object is treated as absent.
- The round-trip spec now asserts Version/Image/ContainerSHA against the source
  package, not just cross-resource equality, so a serialization regression is caught.

Part of #300.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* fix(operator): guard nil package in InvalidatePackage/IsInvalidPackage

GetPackage returns (nil, nil) when the package annotation is absent, so
pkg.Invalid = true and return pkg.Invalid would panic for an object without
package metadata. Now that these helpers accept any metav1.Object (and Job
handling will call them on Jobs), guard nil: InvalidatePackage no-ops and
IsInvalidPackage reports false. Adds a regression spec for unannotated objects.

Addresses CodeRabbit review on #313.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(operator): recast em-dashes in package annotation comments

Repo prose style prefers colon/comma over em-dashes in doc comments (review on #313).

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

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Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* refactor(operator): consolidate pod builders and tests into job_builder

Move createPodFromPackage, createInterruptPodForPackage, and
podMatchesPackage out of skyhook_controller.go into job_builder.go, and
relocate their specs from skyhook_controller_test.go into
job_builder_test.go so the builders and their tests live together.

Add coverage for the image-pull-secret-set path on both builders, the
graceful-shutdown to terminationGracePeriodSeconds mapping, and the
interrupt pod name/label/root-mount shape.

Signed-off-by: Brian Lockwood <lockwobr@gmail.com>

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Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Lockwood <lockwobr@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Brian Lockwood <lockwobr@gmail.com>

* feat(operator): dal Job accessors and Job event mapper (#302 part 1) (#318)

* docs: add design doc for package execution as Jobs

Design companion to #223: Job shape (one Job per skyhook/package/stage/node),
completion flow with a persisted processed-once marker, outcome-based TTL,
naming/rerun rules, upgrade dual-path, and rejected alternatives incl.
podFailurePolicy for ImagePullBackOff (split to #306).

Closes #299

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): address adversarial review of Jobs migration design

Review (Fable, xhigh effort) found 3 blockers + 5 majors; all addressed:

- AlreadyExists is no longer blindly benign: GET; finished/mismatched Jobs
  are foreground-deleted + requeued, never Upserted as in_progress
- ValidateRunningPackages checks scoped to unfinished Jobs; finished Jobs
  cleaned only by TTL or a precise rerun predicate (protects retention)
- Upgrade window: JobExists/HasRunningPackages/validation are legacy-pod
  aware to prevent duplicate executors and premature interrupts
- not-ready/unreachable NoExecute tolerations so slow reboots don't evict
  the pod and fail the Job (backoffLimit: 0)
- Failed (disruption) Jobs no longer write erroring: silent re-execution,
  keeping DeploymentPolicy failure counting unchanged
- Crash-window claim corrected + stage-progress re-processing guard
- Child-pod fallback for GC'd pods; package annotation on pod template
- HandleConfigUpdates added to blast radius (delete Job, not child pod)
- Interrupt Job name formula kept; metrics dead-code note; namespace-scoped
  Jobs informer; node-label length fallback; podReplacementPolicy rationale

Also: TTL knobs named as chart values controllerManager.manager.env.jobTtl*
Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): fix Job backoff model per review; address CodeRabbit findings

The load-bearing correction (CodeRabbit, confirmed against Job controller
semantics): with restartPolicy: OnFailure the Job controller counts the sum
of container restarts (init containers included) toward backoffLimit and
terminates the pod at the limit — backoffLimit: 0 would kill a package on
its first step retry. backoffLimit is now effectively unlimited
(math.MaxInt32); retry ownership stays with kubelet in-place restarts, pod
loss self-heals via the Job controller's replacement pod (nodeName-pinned
template), and Job Failed becomes a backstop-only branch.

Also, from CodeRabbit + a second adversarial review pass:

- AlreadyExists must never delete a Complete-but-unrecorded Job (requeue;
  JobReconcile owns unprocessed completions)
- child pods selected by batch.kubernetes.io/controller-uid, not job-name
- containerName GC-fallback defined (interrupt label determines it)
- Failed-path marker/TTL write specified; node-NotFound completion handling
- postcondition guard now enumerates the interrupt/ProgressSkipped case
- HasRunningPackages defined over unfinished Jobs (pod-based reading would
  stall interrupts behind retained Succeeded pods for the TTL window)
- fourth legacy accommodation: HandleConfigUpdates keeps direct deletion of
  legacy erroring pods during the upgrade window
- orphaned-node sweep covers Jobs of deleted nodes regardless of status
- uninstall retention carve-outs documented; podReplacementPolicy gate-off
  wording honest; generation-label note fixed; in-flight hyphenation

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): add per-package stage deadline with parked failures and log-tail snapshot

Enhancement over today's model (per review discussion): a stage that runs
past its deadline — hung, crash-looping, or unpullable — is failed and
surfaced instead of churning or hanging invisibly forever.

- New additive SCR field Package.stageTimeout (metav1.Duration, follows
  gracefulShutdown pattern) -> Job activeDeadlineSeconds; operator default
  JOB_STAGE_TIMEOUT (1h, chart controllerManager.manager.env.jobStageTimeout),
  "0" disables. The one CRD change in the migration; additive, no shim.
- DeadlineExceeded is a first-class failure: state -> erroring (new signal
  for hung stages; DeploymentPolicy sees stuck nodes), Job parked as the
  marker that stops recreation until rerun/reset/config-update or
  JOB_TTL_FAILED expiry (deliberate slow-retry cadence). Rules 2/3 gain the
  park exception; other Failed reasons stay the silent backstop.
- Log-tail snapshot: on FailureTarget (pods still terminating) the operator
  captures the stuck container's last ~16KiB via the pod-logs API into the
  skyhook.nvidia.com/last-logs Job annotation, so the parked tombstone stays
  debuggable after the deadline deletes the pod. Best-effort, never blocks
  the park path. Needs pods/log get RBAC + a client-go clientset seam in dal.
- Honest caveat retained: full post-deadline container logs live in
  SKYHOOK_LOG_DIR host logs / log aggregation.
- Rejected alternative documented: restartPolicy Never + small backoffLimit
  (retains failed pods but can't catch hangs, changes retry substrate).

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): pause cascades to Job suspension

Second deliberate enhancement: skyhook.nvidia.com/pause now halts in-flight
stages instead of letting them finish. UpdatePauseStatus sets spec.suspend
on the Skyhook's unfinished Jobs (annotation stays the user-facing
primitive; suspension is enforcement). SIGTERM mid-step is the same
recovery shape as reboot/eviction — agent flag files skip completed steps
on resume. Suspension clears/resets Job startTime, so the stage deadline
stops ticking while paused and resets fresh on resume — closing the bad
interaction where a paused-but-running stage could hit its deadline and
park as erroring. Suspended Jobs stay unfinished for JobExists/validation;
interrupts that already fired a reboot converge via the resource-id flag;
legacy pods keep let-finish semantics during the upgrade window (CLI docs
must note the version-dependent strength). disable is unchanged. Replaces
the earlier 'Rejected: suspend as pause primitive' section — the
no-checkpointing cost is now accepted deliberately.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): switch package Jobs to restartPolicy Never with failed-attempt archive

Reworks the retry substrate (maintainer direction + review pass 3):

- Package/stage Jobs: restartPolicy Never — each attempt is a fresh pod;
  the operator prunes Failed pods keeping ONE full-log archive (newest
  Failed without DisruptionTarget, by creationTimestamp; normal deletion
  only). kubectl logs on the last real failure works during retries, past
  the deadline, and through a pause — superseding the 16KiB snapshot for
  genuinely-failing stages (snapshot remains for hangs and never-started
  containers, now also recording Waiting reason+message, e.g.
  ImagePullBackOff + registry error).
- podFailurePolicy Ignore-on-DisruptionTarget: evictions/preemption/PodGC
  count nothing and stay silent. backoffLimit stays MaxInt32 (counts
  Failed pods under Never).
- INTERRUPT Jobs keep OnFailure (no podFailurePolicy): a reboot interrupt
  kills its own pod by design; Never would mint a spurious failed attempt
  per successful reboot.
- Erroring evidence guards: no DisruptionTarget, real terminal verdict
  (skip ContainerStatusUnknown + admission rejections), and
  DeletionTimestamp unset — pause suspension, rule deletions, sweeps and
  manual pod deletes stay silent (review pass 3 blocker).
- Resume half of the pause cascade gets an explicit owner and ordering
  (after ValidateRunningPackages; invalidate stale suspended Jobs first).
- New rule 5: REAPPLY_ON_REBOOT reset sweeps the node's Jobs regardless
  of status — pre-reboot completions must not land on reset state.
- Honest deltas documented: hard-crash 137/Error can flap erroring once;
  admission-rejected pods count attempts (replaces a worse latent wedge
  where such a raw pod satisfies PodExists forever); attempts figure now
  job.status.failed (user-visible nodeState/CLI improvement); deadline on
  an unreachable node surfaces via stale FailureTarget as erroring;
  stageTimeout "0" omits activeDeadlineSeconds; HandleConfigUpdates
  scoped to unfinished/parked Jobs; Complete path reads the Succeeded pod.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): restructure Jobs migration doc for readability

Address maintainer review (@lockwobr): the substance was approved but the
layering buried it. Restructure without cutting the analysis:

- add a TL;DR decision table up top so the shape reads in 60 seconds
- describe behavior by role in the narrative; move Go symbols and file
  references to a baseline section and a new References block
- drop exact constants and most inline cross-references from the prose
- collapse the defensive material (crash-window guards, hard-crash deltas,
  admission edge, erroring guards, pruner safety) into an
  'Edge cases and correctness arguments' appendix
- collapse Rejected alternatives to a table, keeping only the central
  Never-vs-OnFailure decision in full

Also fixes the meta-lint failure: the Goals list had a duplicate '4.'
(MD029/ol-prefix); it is now sequential 1-5.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* refactor(operator): package annotation helpers accept any client.Object

GetPackage/SetPackages/InvalidatePackage/IsInvalidPackage only ever touch an
object's annotations, but were typed to *corev1.Pod. Widen them to
client.Object (using GetAnnotations/SetAnnotations instead of the .Annotations
field) so the same package metadata can ride on batch/v1 Jobs and their pod
templates — the first step of the package-execution-as-Jobs migration (#223).

No behavior change: every call site passes a *corev1.Pod, which already
satisfies client.Object. Adds a round-trip spec proving SetPackages -> GetPackage
(and the invalidate path) behaves identically on a *batchv1.Job and a *corev1.Pod.

Part of #300.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* refactor(operator): use metav1.Object for package annotation helpers

Address review on #313:
- Widen to metav1.Object instead of client.Object. The Job pod template
  (*corev1.PodTemplateSpec) satisfies metav1.Object but not client.Object
  (it has no runtime.Object methods), and the Job builder (#301) sets the
  package annotation on job.Spec.Template. metav1.Object is also the more
  precise seam, since these helpers only ever touch metadata.
- Extract the repeated "<prefix>/package" key into a named constant.
- Add a round-trip spec covering the Job pod template.

Part of #300.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* test(operator): assert package fields and guard typed-nil in helpers

Address the follow-up review on #313:
- Guard the metadata helpers against typed-nil interface values. Widening from
  *corev1.Pod to metav1.Object weakened the original nil check — obj == nil misses
  a (*corev1.Pod)(nil) and would panic in GetAnnotations. A small isNil helper
  (reflect-based) catches both a nil interface and a typed-nil pointer; used by all
  four helpers. Adds a spec proving a typed-nil object is treated as absent.
- The round-trip spec now asserts Version/Image/ContainerSHA against the source
  package, not just cross-resource equality, so a serialization regression is caught.

Part of #300.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* fix(operator): guard nil package in InvalidatePackage/IsInvalidPackage

GetPackage returns (nil, nil) when the package annotation is absent, so
pkg.Invalid = true and return pkg.Invalid would panic for an object without
package metadata. Now that these helpers accept any metav1.Object (and Job
handling will call them on Jobs), guard nil: InvalidatePackage no-ops and
IsInvalidPackage reports false. Adds a regression spec for unannotated objects.

Addresses CodeRabbit review on #313.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(operator): recast em-dashes in package annotation comments

Repo prose style prefers colon/comma over em-dashes in doc comments (review on #313).

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* feat(operator): add Job builders and stage-timeout/TTL options (#301)

Adds the batch/v1 Job builders for the package-execution-as-Jobs migration, not
yet wired into reconcile (ApplyPackage/Interrupt still create raw pods until #303).

- job_builder.go: createJobFromPackage / createInterruptJobFromPackage. Each wraps
  the pod the operator builds today (createPodFromPackage / createInterruptPodForPackage)
  so the executor shape can't drift, then applies the Job differences: the forever
  pause container becomes an exit-0 container so the pod can reach Succeeded;
  package Jobs use restartPolicy Never + effectively-unlimited backoffLimit +
  podFailurePolicy Ignore-on-DisruptionTarget (disruptions stay silent); interrupt
  Jobs keep OnFailure with no podFailurePolicy; podReplacementPolicy Failed;
  ttlSecondsAfterFinished unset at creation; unbounded not-ready/unreachable NoExecute
  tolerations; labels name/package/stage/node/generation (+interrupt) on the Job and
  its pod template, full resource-id as an annotation, node label hashed for long names.
- CRD: additive Package.stageTimeout (*metav1.Duration) -> Job activeDeadlineSeconds
  (package value else JOB_STAGE_TIMEOUT default; 0 omits the deadline). Added to the
  legacy source and regenerated into the nodewright group; webhook validation
  (non-negative); conversion + zero-value-guard fixture; chart CRD mirror.
- Options: JOB_TTL_SUCCEEDED (1h) / JOB_TTL_FAILED (24h) / JOB_STAGE_TIMEOUT (1h)
  with Validate() floors (TTLs >= 1m, stage timeout >= 0).
- Extracted pauseContainerName/interruptLabelValue/shellBinary constants (goconst).

No prod behavior change; the field/options/builders are consumed starting in #303.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* fix(operator): round up stage deadline; add admission and edge tests

Adversarial review follow-up on #301:
- activeDeadlineSeconds now rounds up via math.Ceil. A positive sub-second
  stageTimeout (e.g. 500ms, reachable since the webhook only rejects < 0)
  truncated with int64(d.Seconds()) to 0 — and activeDeadlineSeconds: 0
  insta-fails every Job, so the package could never complete. Any positive
  timeout now yields at least a 1s deadline.
- Tests: sub-second stageTimeout (=> 1s); gracefulShutdown + imagePullSecret
  carry-through to the pod template; interrupt Job activeDeadlineSeconds; and an
  envtest that Creates both Job kinds against the apiserver, validating the
  podFailurePolicy x restartPolicy x podReplacementPolicy x activeDeadlineSeconds
  field combinations that struct-level tests can't see admission for.

The reviewer's second flag (Never + MaxInt32 vs the design's OnFailure/backoffLimit:0)
was a false positive: that quotes the superseded pre-rework model. This implements
the final approved design (Never + failed-attempt archive + Ignore-on-DisruptionTarget).

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* chore(chart): mirror stageTimeout into the nodewright CRD

The rebased fix/api-rename base now ships chart/templates/nodewright-crd.yaml
(the nodewright.nvidia.com CRD chart mirror). The package stageTimeout field
added in this series must appear there too, alongside the existing mirror into
chart/templates/skyhook-crd.yaml.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* refactor(operator): author new API fields in the nodewright group only (#301)

The nodewright group was a schema-frozen textual-rename mirror of the legacy skyhook
types (gen_nodewright.sh), so new fields had to be added to the deprecated skyhook API
and mirrored across. That guard only has value during the rename bridge; the skyhook
group is removed next release. Retire the mirror so new API surface lands on nodewright
only (review: lockwobr on #316):

- delete scripts/gen_nodewright.sh; drop generate-nodewright from the manifests/generate
  prereqs and remove the generate-nodewright and verify-nodewright-gen make targets;
- un-generate the nodewright group (drop the gen_nodewright DO-NOT-EDIT markers from its
  5 source files; deepcopy and CRDs stay controller-gen-owned);
- remove Package.stageTimeout from the legacy skyhook API (types, webhook, webhook test,
  conversion + its test, skyhook CRD, chart skyhook-crd.yaml) and keep it native in the
  nodewright API. job_builder.go already reads the nodewright field, so no behavior change.

Also recast em-dashes in job_builder.go doc comments per repo prose style.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* test(operator): set Job TTL options in the legacy-workload migration test

The Job builders (#301) add JobTTLSucceeded/JobTTLFailed validation to
SkyhookOperatorOptions; the legacy-workload migration test (from the rename)
must set them or NewSkyhookReconciler rejects the options.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* feat(operator): dal Job accessors and Job event mapper (#302)

First increment of the Job-controller work for the package-execution-as-Jobs
migration. Not wired into reconcile yet.

- dal: GetJob / GetJobs mirroring GetPod / GetPods (+ regenerated DAL mock).
- job_controller.go: jobHandlerFunc maps Job events into the single reconcile
  queue as "job---<name>" requests (mirrors podHandlerFunc's "pod---<name>"
  routing), gated on the skyhook name label so only Jobs we own are enqueued.

JobReconcile / jobMatchesPackage and the pod-log-tail accessor land next.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(operator): recast em-dashes in jobHandlerFunc comment

Repo prose style prefers commas over em-dashes in doc comments (review on #313).

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs: add design doc for package execution as Jobs

Design companion to #223: Job shape (one Job per skyhook/package/stage/node),
completion flow with a persisted processed-once marker, outcome-based TTL,
naming/rerun rules, upgrade dual-path, and rejected alternatives incl.
podFailurePolicy for ImagePullBackOff (split to #306).

Closes #299

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): address adversarial review of Jobs migration design

Review (Fable, xhigh effort) found 3 blockers + 5 majors; all addressed:

- AlreadyExists is no longer blindly benign: GET; finished/mismatched Jobs
  are foreground-deleted + requeued, never Upserted as in_progress
- ValidateRunningPackages checks scoped to unfinished Jobs; finished Jobs
  cleaned only by TTL or a precise rerun predicate (protects retention)
- Upgrade window: JobExists/HasRunningPackages/validation are legacy-pod
  aware to prevent duplicate executors and premature interrupts
- not-ready/unreachable NoExecute tolerations so slow reboots don't evict
  the pod and fail the Job (backoffLimit: 0)
- Failed (disruption) Jobs no longer write erroring: silent re-execution,
  keeping DeploymentPolicy failure counting unchanged
- Crash-window claim corrected + stage-progress re-processing guard
- Child-pod fallback for GC'd pods; package annotation on pod template
- HandleConfigUpdates added to blast radius (delete Job, not child pod)
- Interrupt Job name formula kept; metrics dead-code note; namespace-scoped
  Jobs informer; node-label length fallback; podReplacementPolicy rationale

Also: TTL knobs named as chart values controllerManager.manager.env.jobTtl*
Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): fix Job backoff model per review; address CodeRabbit findings

The load-bearing correction (CodeRabbit, confirmed against Job controller
semantics): with restartPolicy: OnFailure the Job controller counts the sum
of container restarts (init containers included) toward backoffLimit and
terminates the pod at the limit — backoffLimit: 0 would kill a package on
its first step retry. backoffLimit is now effectively unlimited
(math.MaxInt32); retry ownership stays with kubelet in-place restarts, pod
loss self-heals via the Job controller's replacement pod (nodeName-pinned
template), and Job Failed becomes a backstop-only branch.

Also, from CodeRabbit + a second adversarial review pass:

- AlreadyExists must never delete a Complete-but-unrecorded Job (requeue;
  JobReconcile owns unprocessed completions)
- child pods selected by batch.kubernetes.io/controller-uid, not job-name
- containerName GC-fallback defined (interrupt label determines it)
- Failed-path marker/TTL write specified; node-NotFound completion handling
- postcondition guard now enumerates the interrupt/ProgressSkipped case
- HasRunningPackages defined over unfinished Jobs (pod-based reading would
  stall interrupts behind retained Succeeded pods for the TTL window)
- fourth legacy accommodation: HandleConfigUpdates keeps direct deletion of
  legacy erroring pods during the upgrade window
- orphaned-node sweep covers Jobs of deleted nodes regardless of status
- uninstall retention carve-outs documented; podReplacementPolicy gate-off
  wording honest; generation-label note fixed; in-flight hyphenation

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): add per-package stage deadline with parked failures and log-tail snapshot

Enhancement over today's model (per review discussion): a stage that runs
past its deadline — hung, crash-looping, or unpullable — is failed and
surfaced instead of churning or hanging invisibly forever.

- New additive SCR field Package.stageTimeout (metav1.Duration, follows
  gracefulShutdown pattern) -> Job activeDeadlineSeconds; operator default
  JOB_STAGE_TIMEOUT (1h, chart controllerManager.manager.env.jobStageTimeout),
  "0" disables. The one CRD change in the migration; additive, no shim.
- DeadlineExceeded is a first-class failure: state -> erroring (new signal
  for hung stages; DeploymentPolicy sees stuck nodes), Job parked as the
  marker that stops recreation until rerun/reset/config-update or
  JOB_TTL_FAILED expiry (deliberate slow-retry cadence). Rules 2/3 gain the
  park exception; other Failed reasons stay the silent backstop.
- Log-tail snapshot: on FailureTarget (pods still terminating) the operator
  captures the stuck container's last ~16KiB via the pod-logs API into the
  skyhook.nvidia.com/last-logs Job annotation, so the parked tombstone stays
  debuggable after the deadline deletes the pod. Best-effort, never blocks
  the park path. Needs pods/log get RBAC + a client-go clientset seam in dal.
- Honest caveat retained: full post-deadline container logs live in
  SKYHOOK_LOG_DIR host logs / log aggregation.
- Rejected alternative documented: restartPolicy Never + small backoffLimit
  (retains failed pods but can't catch hangs, changes retry substrate).

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>

* docs(design): pause cascades to Job suspension

Second deliberate enhancement: skyhook.nvidia.com/pause now halts in-…
Item 8 of #411. The page claimed the operator "relies only on core,
long-stable Kubernetes APIs" and "gates on no version-specific features",
and marked ~1.23-1.32 as expected to work. That stopped being true when
package execution moved to batch/v1 Jobs.

The Jobs path depends on podFailurePolicy, the DisruptionTarget pod
condition, the FailureTarget Job condition, podReplacementPolicy, the
batch.kubernetes.io/* pod labels, suspend and ttlSecondsAfterFinished. An
apiserver that does not know a field drops it and returns success, so on an
older cluster the operator creates a healthy-looking Job with the field
absent and the property it guaranteed simply gone — no error, event, or log
line, and nothing surfaces until the case that field existed to handle
actually occurs.

Replaces the blanket claim with a cumulative table: each row lists what
newly stops working below that version, so reading top-down accumulates the
losses. Splits the old 1.23-1.32 band into 1.29-1.32 (every field at least
beta-on-by-default, losses theoretical) and 1.23-1.28 (real degradation).

The sharpest row is below 1.26, and it got sharper with #402: without
podFailurePolicy the Ignore-on-DisruptionTarget rule disappears, so
evictions and preemptions count toward backoffLimit like genuine failures.
At the old unbounded limit that was harmless; at a finite JOB_BACKOFF_LIMIT
a couple of unrelated disruptions can park a package that never failed.

Version numbers track upstream feature-gate graduation, not measured
NodeWright behaviour — none of these clusters are in CI, and the table says
so rather than implying a tested promise.

Refs #411 (item 8).

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>
Review question on #421 that the row could not survive: does losing the
succeeded-container-name lookup mean we stop knowing a stage completed? No,
and the row implied otherwise.

Completion is read from the Job's Complete condition, never from pods
(job_controller.go:164). The container name it finds feeds one variable whose
only use is an equality check against InterruptContainerName
(job_controller.go:342), and interrupt Jobs source that from the Job's own
label rather than a pod. For every other stage it is cosmetic, exactly as the
comment above the call says. Listing it as a cost was wrong.

The claim that failure evidence stops being retained was backwards too:
losing pruneFailedAttempts means archive pods accumulate rather than being
trimmed to two, which is a scale problem, not an evidence problem.

The row now names the two real costs — unbounded archive accumulation, and
the last-logs snapshot never firing for a container that never started — and
states plainly that completion is unaffected.

Refs #411 (item 8).

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>
Item 5a of #411, confirmed against the code. resumeSuspendedJobs is called
from the reconcile loop for any Skyhook that is not paused, and the only
IsDisabled guard in that flow lives in processSkyhooksPerNode, a different
function further down. So clearing the pause annotation and setting disable in
one edit un-suspended every Job pause had suspended: disabling a paused
NodeWright restarted it.

That makes disable strictly weaker than pause for in-flight work, which is the
opposite of how it reads — docs/cli.md offered it as "disable completely",
directly under the pause example.

Disable still does not stop work already running; the design doc is explicit
that it never claimed to. The fix is only that it must not RESTART work pause
stopped. Re-enabling resumes them.

The guard is inside resumeSuspendedJobs rather than at the call site so it
holds for every caller, and because that is where the existing specs already
exercise this behaviour — a call-site guard would have been untestable without
standing up a whole reconcile, and this controller has no full-Reconcile spec
to model one on.

docs/cli.md now states the distinction rather than implying disable is the
bigger hammer. Written as prose rather than a third stacked blockquote, which
MD028 rejects.

Spec verified to fail against the unguarded version.

Refs #411 (item 5a).

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>
CodeRabbit review on #422; all three points were right.

My replacement for "disable completely" was "stop it being processed at all",
which oversells it just as much. It is now "prevent new work being scheduled".

NewDisableCmd still said "Disable a NodeWright completely" and "the operator
will completely stop processing". Updating docs/cli.md without it left the
CLI's own --help contradicting the page, which the repo requires to move
together. Its long help now states that a stage already under way runs to
completion, and that disable never restarts what pause stopped.

The re-enable sentence was wrong, not merely vague. Reconcile hits
`if skyhook.IsPaused() { ...; continue }` before resumeSuspendedJobs, so while
pause is set the resume never runs regardless of disable. "Re-enabling resumes
them" implied enable alone was enough; both annotations have to be cleared.

The command's short help keeps the word "Disable" because lifecycle_test.go
asserts each Short contains its verb — a convention worth conforming to rather
than loosening the test for.

Refs #411 (item 5a).

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>
…ommodations

Item 2 of #411, resolved as a docs fix now that the epic's open question has
an answer: the rename and the Jobs migration ship together.

The Upgrade section specified four in-place accommodations so Jobs and raw
pods could run side by side for a minor release — legacy-aware completion,
existence gating that ORs in raw pods, a legacy sweep in validation, and
direct deletion of legacy erroring pods on config update. None were built.
That was not an oversight; they were superseded by legacyMigrationHold, which
takes a stricter line: it runs first in Reconcile and requeues while any
pre-rename Skyhook is still rolling out, so the two execution models never
overlap rather than being taught to coexist.

Shipping the two together is what makes that work, and the section now says
so. Had the rename landed in an earlier release, the preceding operator would
already be nodewright-native, no legacy Skyhook objects would exist, the hold
would never fire, and its raw pods would carry labels the legacy sweep does
not select — and the accommodations really would have been required.

Also records the one case the hold does not cover: it treats a paused legacy
Skyhook as not-in-flight so migration does not force an unpause, but pre-Jobs
pause never stopped a running pod. Unpausing such a Skyhook on the new
operator before its pod finishes puts a Job alongside it on the same host
copyDir. Narrow, idempotent in practice via the agent's flag files, and now
written down rather than discovered later.

ValidateRunningPackages claimed a legacy raw-pod sweep ran alongside its Job
checks. It never did; the comment now says why it walks Jobs only.

Refs #411 (item 2).

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>
… running

Item 4 of #411, resolved as documentation.

Editing stageTimeout, JOB_STAGE_TIMEOUT or JOB_BACKOFF_LIMIT changes what the
next Job is built with and does not reach a Job already running. jobMatchesPackage
compares only the pod-template subset podMatchesPackage looks at — labels and
per-init-container name/image/env/resources — so the changed value is not
staleness and nothing is replaced on the strength of it.

Making it reach in-flight work is not a small fix, and Kubernetes does not offer a
clean one. The per-attempt bound lives on the Job's pod template, which is
immutable, so it cannot be patched — and a template edit would only reach pods
created after it anyway. The running pod's own activeDeadlineSeconds is mutable
but may only be DECREASED, which is backwards from the edit that motivates the
change: people raise a timeout because a stage needs longer. Applying an increase
means replacing the Job, which kills the in-flight attempt in order to give it
more time.

So the contract is stated rather than engineered around: the new value applies at
the package's next stage, and to apply it to work already under way the user
clears the Job — `kubectl nodewright package rerun`, or deleting it — and the
stage restarts under the new value.

Covers the CRD docstring (regenerated into both CRD copies), the chart's
jobStageTimeout comment, and the design doc's stage-deadline section, which also
records why the Job-level ceiling is left unpatched even though it alone is
mutable: patching it would leave the ceiling and the per-attempt bound
disagreeing.

Refs #411 (item 4).

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>
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2770-2899: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Preserve retained Job output during cleanup.

The cleanup paths delete Jobs for explicit uninstall, node reboot, and configuration invalidation. In the reported successful explicit-uninstall case, foreground deletion also removes the child Pod, so no object remains for output recovery. (kubernetes.io) This contradicts the retained failure-log and outcome-TTL behavior described for this PR.

Keep terminal Job and Pod output until the configured TTL. If explicit uninstall must be destructive, capture the output before deletion and document that contract. Pass a deletion reason to deleteJobForeground and emit an informational log or event for operator deletions.

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In `@operator/internal/controller/skyhook_controller.go` around lines 2770 - 2899,
Update cleanup flows using deleteJobForeground, including
deleteConfigUpdateExecutors, deleteNodeJobs, and explicit-uninstall handling, to
preserve terminal Jobs and their Pods until the configured TTL so retained
output remains recoverable. If explicit uninstall must remain destructive,
capture the Job/Pod output before deletion and document that contract. Pass a
deletion reason to deleteJobForeground and emit an informational log or event
for operator-triggered deletions.

733-738: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Merge migrated node state with the current annotation.

migrateNodeTo_0_5_0 writes the full snapshot-derived nodeState through an unlocked MergeFrom. A concurrent JobReconciler completion can be overwritten. Re-read the node and apply only the migration delta with conflict retries, as saveNodeChanges does. Add a concurrent-completion migration test.

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In `@operator/internal/controller/skyhook_controller.go` around lines 733 - 738,
The migrateNodeTo_0_5_0 path must avoid overwriting concurrent JobReconciler
updates: re-read the current node annotation, compute and apply only the
migration delta, and persist it with conflict retries following saveNodeChanges.
Add a test covering a concurrent completion during migration and verify both the
completion state and migration changes are preserved.
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In `@operator/internal/controller/skyhook_controller.go`:
- Around line 2770-2899: Update cleanup flows using deleteJobForeground,
including deleteConfigUpdateExecutors, deleteNodeJobs, and explicit-uninstall
handling, to preserve terminal Jobs and their Pods until the configured TTL so
retained output remains recoverable. If explicit uninstall must remain
destructive, capture the Job/Pod output before deletion and document that
contract. Pass a deletion reason to deleteJobForeground and emit an
informational log or event for operator-triggered deletions.
- Around line 733-738: The migrateNodeTo_0_5_0 path must avoid overwriting
concurrent JobReconciler updates: re-read the current node annotation, compute
and apply only the migration delta, and persist it with conflict retries
following saveNodeChanges. Add a test covering a concurrent completion during
migration and verify both the completion state and migration changes are
preserved.

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1-3: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Add the required Apache-2.0 header.

This Markdown file starts with document text and has no SPDX/license header. Run make license-fmt or the component make fmt before merge.

As per coding guidelines, every **/*.{yaml,yml,json,md} source file needs an Apache-2.0 header.

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repository-standard Apache-2.0 SPDX/license header at the beginning of the
Markdown document, before the “Operator Resources at Scale” heading, matching
the format produced by the applicable license-formatting target.

Source: Coding guidelines

operator/internal/controller/skyhook_controller.go (1)

3126-3139: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Use a Patch instead of an Update to persist the invalid marker.

InvalidPackage writes the Job with a full r.Update. The Job comes from a cached list in ValidateRunningPackages, and the Job controller rewrites Job status continuously. A full Update sends the cached resourceVersion as a precondition, so it is the most conflict-prone form of write available here.

Lines 1165-1170 already reject Update for spec.suspend for this exact reason and use a merge patch. This write touches only an annotation, so the same treatment applies.

A conflict is not fatal today. The error is aggregated, the pass requeues, and the stale Job is invalidated on a later pass. The cost is delayed reaping of a stale-spec Job that keeps running in the meantime, plus avoidable reconcile churn.

♻️ Proposed change to patch the marker
 func (r *SkyhookReconciler) InvalidPackage(ctx context.Context, obj client.Object) error {
+	patch := client.MergeFrom(obj.DeepCopyObject().(client.Object))
+
 	if err := InvalidatePackage(obj); err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("error invalidating package: %w", err)
 	}
 
-	if err := r.Update(ctx, obj); err != nil {
+	if err := r.Patch(ctx, obj, patch); err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("error updating executor %s: %w", obj.GetName(), err)
 	}
 
 	return nil
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than r.Update, preserving unrelated Job fields and avoiding resource-version
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Inline comments:
In `@chart/README.md`:
- Around line 36-37: Verify whether JobOperatorOptions validates JobTTLSucceeded
and JobTTLFailed with a minimum of 1m; if not, remove or correct the unsupported
minimum and startup-failure claims in chart/README.md lines 36-37 and
chart/RELEASE_NOTES.md lines 202-203, while preserving the TTL descriptions.

In `@chart/RELEASE_NOTES.md`:
- Line 74: Update the jobBackoffLimit row in the release notes to clarify that
exhausting the retry budget does not by itself surface the stage as erroring
when kubelet-refused attempts never ran the package; retain the existing
maximum-attempts description.

In `@chart/templates/manager-rbac.yaml`:
- Around line 204-254: Update the explanatory cache comment in the manager Role
to state that only Jobs and Secrets use namespace-scoped informers, while
pods/log is accessed through namespaced GetLogs calls. Add the repository’s
standard Apache-2.0 license header at the top of manager-rbac.yaml.

In `@docs/designs/2026-07-10-package-execution-as-jobs.md`:
- Around line 64-75: Update the new-operator Job and child Pod examples to use
the current nodewright.nvidia.com metadata keys, including name, package,
interrupt, stage, node, generation, and resource-id. Replace skyhook.nvidia.com
references throughout the affected sections, while retaining skyhook.nvidia.com
only where the documentation explicitly describes legacy resources.
- Line 1: Add the project’s standard Apache-2.0 license header to the beginnings
of docs/designs/2026-07-10-package-execution-as-jobs.md,
docs/kubernetes-support.md, docs/nodewright-migration.md,
docs/operator-status-definitions.md, and
k8s-tests/chainsaw/nodewright/pause-suspends-jobs/README.md. Run the
repository’s license formatting command afterward to apply and verify the
headers consistently.
- Line 231: Change the uninstall cleanup behavior described in the retention
rules so a successfully completed explicit uninstall Job and its Pod remain
available through the success TTL. Update the absent-entry cleanup logic and
related validation to preserve retrievable uninstall output, or persist that
output before foreground deletion, while keeping failure retention behavior
unchanged.

Apply the same fix in `@chart/README.md` at line 36: The chart documentation must
describe the same successful-uninstall exception if it remains.

In `@k8s-tests/chainsaw/nodewright/cleanup-pods/README.md`:
- Around line 9-18: Add the project-standard Apache-2.0 license header at the
beginning of the README, before its document title, without changing the
existing test instructions.

In `@k8s-tests/chainsaw/nodewright/delete-nodewright/chainsaw-test.yaml`:
- Line 43: Add fail-fast mode with set -e at the beginning of each metrics
validation script:
k8s-tests/chainsaw/nodewright/delete-nodewright/chainsaw-test.yaml lines 43-43
and k8s-tests/chainsaw/nodewright/failure-nodewright/chainsaw-test.yaml lines
57-60, before the metrics_test.py commands so any failed command stops the
script.

In `@k8s-tests/chainsaw/nodewright/simple-nodewright/chainsaw-test.yaml`:
- Around line 90-91: Add a post-terminal assertion step in the Chainsaw test
after the Job reaches completion, validating the controller-populated success
and failure TTL values for the generated Job. Extend the existing
assert_jobs.yaml coverage without hardcoding the Job name, since it is derived
from the hashed pod name.

In `@operator/api/nodewright/v1alpha1/nodewright_types.go`:
- Around line 368-388: Verify the CLI command referenced in the StageTimeout
comment is actually exposed; if package rerun is not the exact command, correct
the comment in operator/api/nodewright/v1alpha1/nodewright_types.go:368-388.
Regenerate the corresponding schema documentation in
chart/templates/nodewright-crd.yaml:536-556 and
operator/config/crd/bases/nodewright.nvidia.com_nodewrights.yaml:541-561, with
no direct semantic change needed there beyond reflecting the updated
StageTimeout comment.

In `@operator/cmd/manager/main.go`:
- Around line 151-156: Correct the cache comment near the Secret ByObject
configuration to state that NewSecretCertWatcher, attached to mgr and using
mgr.GetCache(), reads the serving-cert Secret through this manager’s
namespace-scoped cache; retain the explanation that WebhookController uses
webhookBootstrapMgr and that the Secret entry must remain for namespaced
scoping.

Apply the same fix in `@operator/cmd/manager/main.go` at line 1: Documents the
second Secret reader covered by the same correction.

In `@operator/internal/controller/job_builder_test.go`:
- Around line 222-257: Add a focused test for setJobPackage that verifies the
package annotation is stamped on both the Job metadata and its pod template
metadata. Use the existing job-builder test setup and assert both annotation
locations contain the expected package value, covering the metadata consumed by
child pods.

In `@operator/internal/controller/job_builder.go`:
- Line 184: Validate opts.JobBackoffLimit during startup alongside the existing
TTL minimum validation, rejecting or normalizing negative values before job
creation; alternatively, clamp it in the job-building flow before assigning
spec.BackoffLimit. Ensure JobBuilder never sends a negative BackoffLimit to the
apiserver.
- Around line 432-443: Update the interrupt pod metadata ConfigMap reference in
the volume’s ConfigMap LocalObjectReference to reuse generateSafeName with the
same length, skyhook.Name, nodeName, and “metadata” inputs as the volume Name,
replacing the current direct formatted-name transformation.

In `@operator/internal/controller/job_controller_test.go`:
- Around line 296-307: Add a test covering the JobReconcile terminating-object
guard: create a finalized Job and an in-progress node, delete the Job through
the fake client, reconcile the remaining terminating object, and assert no
error, no node-state transition, and no completion annotation. Anchor the test
to JobReconcile and preserve the existing non-terminating Job tests.

In `@operator/internal/controller/job_controller.go`:
- Around line 752-757: Update deleteJobForeground to accept a short
deletion-reason string and emit an info-level log when deleting the Job,
including the Job identity and reason. Update every caller, including orphan
cleanup, stale-spec replacement, package invalidation, and the referenced
skyhook_controller.go call sites, to provide the appropriate reason.
- Around line 111-115: Declare constants for the METADATA_PREFIX-derived label
keys alongside batchControllerUIDLabel and batchJobNameLabel using compile-time
string concatenation, then update ownedJob and the other call site to reuse
those constants instead of calling fmt.Sprintf.

In `@operator/internal/controller/pod_controller.go`:
- Around line 152-159: Update PodReconciler.recordPodErroring so a pod with the
package label but no package annotation is logged once and returns nil instead
of producing an error or triggering requeues; retain the existing error handling
for GetPackage failures and use the controller-runtime log package for the
informational log.

In `@operator/internal/dal/dal.go`:
- Line 264: Update the tail sanitization logic around strings.ToValidUTF8 so the
final returned string remains valid UTF-8 and does not exceed maxBytes after
replacement expansion; truncate the sanitized result safely at a valid UTF-8
boundary, and add coverage using alternating invalid and valid bytes to verify
both guarantees.

In `@operator/RELEASE_NOTES.md`:
- Around line 294-298: Update the in-flight rollout recovery guidance in the
release notes to remove helm rollback as a recommended safe path. Document the
validated explicit cleanup workaround instead, or state that rollback is
unsupported until renamed webhook, RBAC, certificate, and related resources are
made compatible; retain the existing legacy Skyhook deletion option only if it
remains verified.
- Around line 218-224: Update the failure-log documentation to state that
stageTimeout-retained pods may have no logs when images cannot be pulled,
kubelet-refused attempts are not genuine failures and are not archived, and
nodewright.nvidia.com/last-logs is only written during FailureTarget and may be
absent when that condition is not emitted or the operator misses the window,
including Kubernetes 1.29–1.30. Track issue `#449` as a known limitation.

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the beginning of the Markdown document, before the “Operator Resources at Scale”
heading, matching the format produced by the applicable license-formatting
target.

In `@operator/internal/controller/skyhook_controller.go`:
- Around line 3126-3139: Update InvalidPackage to persist the invalid marker
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avoiding resource-version conflicts; follow the existing patch approach used for
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…known limitation

The design doc said pause 'never has to' stop a legacy raw pod because the
migration hold keeps the two execution models apart. RELEASE_NOTES is the
authority and says otherwise: the hold deliberately treats a paused or
disabled Skyhook as not-in-flight, so one can cross the upgrade with a live
raw pod, and unpausing before that pod exits puts a Job beside it on the same
copyDir. Rewrote the bullet to match.

Also moved the #443 reference off 'failed uninstalls are retained normally',
which is not what that issue is about, and onto the successful-uninstall log
loss it actually tracks -- stated as a known limitation deferred to a later
release, and mirrored into the design doc and the chart README so all three
say the same thing.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>
Correctness:

- The interrupt pod's metadata ConfigMap volume referenced an ad-hoc
  "<skyhook>-<node>-metadata" string while the ConfigMap is created through
  generateSafeName, which hashes, truncates and lowercases. The names did not
  agree even for short inputs, so the interrupt pod mounted a ConfigMap that
  does not exist.
- Job writes that change only metadata went out as full-object Updates off a
  cached Job. The pause path concurrently patches spec.suspend on the same
  object, so a stale spec could resume a Job that was just suspended. The
  last-logs annotation, the state-recorded/TTL mark, and the invalid-package
  mark now all merge-patch. markJobProcessed was not raised in review but had
  the identical pattern two lines away; converting only its neighbours would
  have left the next reader to copy the wrong one.
- A pod carrying the name label but no package annotation returned an error
  from recordPodErroring, which requeues forever with backoff and logs every
  attempt. No retry can add the annotation, so this is now a no-op.
- tailAndSanitize applied its byte cap before ToValidUTF8, which swaps each
  invalid byte for a 3-byte replacement rune. A tail at the cap could return
  at double the cap and blow the annotation's metadata budget. Covered by a
  test that fails without the fix (128 bytes against a 64-byte cap).

Comments and docs that stated something untrue:

- main.go said nothing on the main manager reads a Secret. SecretCertWatcher
  runs there with mgr.GetCache() and reads the serving-cert Secret, so the
  comment invited deleting a cache entry that TLS serving depends on.
- The chart RBAC comment claimed a namespace-scoped informer for each of the
  three namespaced kinds; pods/log has none, it is a direct GetLogs call.
- The migration doc's legacy-pod check hard-coded -n skyhook. A false empty is
  the dangerous answer there, so it queries all namespaces now.
- The design doc used skyhook.nvidia.com/* for new-operator Jobs and pods;
  those keys are nodewright.nvidia.com/* since the rename. Legacy references
  are left alone.
- Validation totals said 16 cases, 15 pass; the table has 17 rows, 16 pass.
- chart RELEASE_NOTES said a spent retry budget surfaces as erroring, which
  contradicts JobOperatorOptions: kubelet-refused attempts spend the budget
  without running the package.
- Documented the three failure-log limits (no container logs, kubelet-refused
  attempts, absent last-logs when FailureTarget is never emitted).

Also: deleted a compartment spec duplicated verbatim into the dedicated
Describe, added set -e to five multi-command chainsaw metrics scripts where a
failing check was masked by a passing later one, and gave deleteJobForeground
a reason it logs, since a Job vanishing was otherwise unexplained.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>
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