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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAdded a release-candidate validation guide with setup, execution, reset, fixture, lifecycle, failure, host-effect, upgrade, rollback, and configuration-change cases. The guide also defines evidence requirements, limitations, and release sign-off tracking. Updated the release process to require the guide during RC validation and completed sign-off records before final release. Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The documentation adds release-validation procedures, but the current text still contains instructions that can fail outright or produce false validation results, including an invalid eviction command, unsafe tag reuse, incomplete reset steps, and an H2 check that may pass with the wrong script. These bounded issues should be corrected or explicitly accepted before merging. Possibly related PRs
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In `@docs/release-process.md`:
- Around line 68-69: Update the release validation instruction to specify the
complete RC tag format, such as component/v0.16.0-rc.2, instead of only “tag
-rc.2”; keep the Chart.yaml version bump and repeat-until-clean workflow
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In `@docs/release-validation.md`:
- Around line 253-265: Update the Sign-off section’s table to capture each
individual case rather than one aggregate Result per part, including pass/fail,
git_sha, chart version, agent version, and evidence path. Use per-case rows or
link to a per-case evidence table while preserving the existing case groupings.
- Around line 21-23: Update the “Setup” section to correct the exception: Part 4
requires a rebuilt kind cluster for its upgrade cases, so replace the reference
to “scale caveats” with that environment requirement.
- Around line 159-161: Update the F5 section to document both supported
configuration paths: set chart values
controllerManager.manager.env.jobTtlSucceeded and jobTtlFailed for chart
installs, and include JOB_TTL_SUCCEEDED=1m and JOB_TTL_FAILED=3m assignments on
the make run command for local runs.
- Around line 152-154: Update the kubectl eviction example in the F4 validation
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"Validate the RC" is step 5 of the release process and a checkbox on the pre-release checklist, but nothing said what validating meant, so it was whatever the person cutting the release thought to try. This writes down the suite that has been run by hand over the last few releases' worth of work, as 22 cases across five parts: package lifecycle, failure handling and retention, host effects, upgrade from the previous release, and lifecycle controls. Each case states what it proves and what to expect, because a checklist nobody understands gets pencil-whipped. Three things here are not reachable from CI, which is why the suite exists rather than growing chainsaw further: - Flows a user drives rather than a fixture: unparking a failed package by editing it, pausing mid-roll, changing a ConfigMap while its stage runs, deleting a node under a running package. - Host effects. Automated tests run the agentless package image, which sleeps and exits, so they prove the operator scheduled work and not that a package changed a host. Part 3 uses the real agent and asserts on the node through the debugger pod the operator-agent suite already provides. The setup note about AGENT_IMAGE is the load-bearing part: get it wrong and every case in that part passes while proving nothing. - Upgrade from the previous release, which by definition cannot be tested from a single commit. Known limitations are listed so a validator confirms them instead of re-filing them, and the sign-off table gives the checklist something to point at. Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>
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- Around line 68-70: Update the RC validation step to use a version placeholder
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Running the suite end to end on main caught this: the setup section told you to start the operator with the real agent, but Parts 1, 2 and 5 use the agentless package fixture, which ships no agent config. Every case in those parts failed on FileNotFoundError: .../config.json before the first assertion. The two fixture families need different AGENT_IMAGE values and the operator has to be restarted between Part 3 and the rest, which the setup did not say. Replaces the single AGENT_IMAGE line with a per-part table and names both failure modes, because they look nothing alike: the real agent against an agentless package fails loudly, while agentless against a shellscript package passes having executed nothing -- the one that silently invalidates Part 3. Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>
Ran the whole suite against
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| Part | Cases | Result |
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| 1 — lifecycle | L1–L6 | 6/6 pass |
| 2 — failure handling | F1–F6 (+F1b, F5b) | 8/8 pass |
| 3 — host effects | H1–H5 (+H5b) | 6/6 pass |
| 4 — upgrade from previous release | U1–U3 (+U2b) | 4/4 pass |
| 5 — lifecycle controls | C1–C2 | 2/2 pass |
Selected evidence rather than a wall of it:
- L1
jobDL=ABSENT podDL=3600 bo=3 pc=1/1 repl=Failed, 2 pods retained,ttl=3600,
state-recorded=true, logs readable after completion, CLI agrees. - L5
maxCordonedAtOnce=1across the whole two-node rollout, one interrupt Job per node. - F1
failed=4 ttl=86400 BackoffLimitExceeded, exactly 2 archive pods, no churn over 45s, and
both unpark paths cleared the terminal Job. - F3
OutOfcpu, no container statuses, nevererroring, then swept and recreated. - F4 eviction
code 201,status.failedstayed empty — no budget spent. - F6 orphan swept at t+4s with
reason='node no longer exists', CR still reachedcomplete. - H1
/etc/nw-smoke-a1=helloon the node; H2 host line orderapply,config,post-interrupt;
H3 after TTL collected all Jobs and pods, 8 host log files and the host change survived. - H4 4 apply executions for 4 attempts with the
Idempotence.Disabledmarker — the documented
semantics, confirmed rather than assumed. - U1 upgrade from the previous release created 0 Jobs and 0 package pods; U3 rollback
succeeded in 108s with CRDs intact and node state byte-identical to the pre-upgrade snapshot;
U2 held for 8 cycles naming the in-flight CR without creating a single Job, and released once
that CR was removed.
One fix the run forced, pushed as 62459d10
The suite as first written did not run. Setup said to start the operator with the real agent, but
Parts 1, 2 and 5 use the agentless fixture, which ships no agent config — L1 and L2 failed on
FileNotFoundError: .../config.json before reaching an assertion.
AGENT_IMAGE is not one setting for the whole run. The setup section now carries a per-part table and
an explicit restart between Part 3 and the rest, and names both failure modes, since they look nothing
alike:
- real agent +
agentlesspackage → every stage fails loudly on the missingconfig.json; agentless+shellscriptpackage → stages pass having executed nothing, which is the one that
silently invalidates Part 3.
That is exactly the class of defect a suite is supposed to surface on its first real run, and it is
the second time this specific trap has cost a run — which is why it is now the most prominent thing
in the setup section.
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In `@docs/contributing/release-validation.md`:
- Around line 48-52: Expand the chart-validation guidance near the Part 4 image
instructions to document the chart restart path: use the appropriate helm
upgrade values, including the AGENT_IMAGE-related repository, tag, and digest
settings, then roll out the chart deployment before testing. Clarify that make
kill and make run only control the host-process deployment, so chart validation
must avoid leaving a stale AGENT_IMAGE while another operator runs locally.
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Running the suite end to end surfaced a set of operational facts that are not product behaviour but cost an hour each if rediscovered. Folding them in so the second run is cheaper than the first: - Batch the operator restarts. Four cases need non-default settings and a restart is a minute each, so the order they are grouped in matters. - F6 is destructive and now says so: it deletes a node, and the only way back is a cluster rebuild, so it goes last in its part. - Verify kubectl apply succeeded before entering a wait loop. The webhook is not serving the instant 'helm --wait' returns, and a rejected apply plus a wait loop burns the loop's whole timeout on an object that was never created. - Wait on the right signal: package work is in init containers, so a pod never reaches Running; CR .status lags an edit by a beat; and an interrupt-in-flight case needs the CR confirmed in_progress first, or the fixture is a different case wearing the same name. - Read logs from every replica. A chart install runs two with leader election and 'logs deploy/<name>' picks one, so a hold or sweep line looks absent when it fired on the other pod. - Budget the wall clock for Part 4: rebuild + install + baseline + upgrade runs several minutes before the first assertion. Also: a second worker's selector label has to be cleared between cases or later single-node cases silently run twice; the agent treats a script it cannot find as success, so a typo'd filename and an absent step look identical; H5's full-wipe CR has to use shellscript like the rest of Part 3; and the sign-off table now records which operator settings each part ran under, since that is the first question when a result is disputed. Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>
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1-20: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winCorrect the release-validation guidance before merge.
- Remove the instruction to leave the L5 second-worker label in place. Later single-node cases can select both workers.
- Replace the H2 statement that missing scripts report success. Both agent implementations reject referenced step files that do not exist.
- Expand the sign-off table to track pass/fail and evidence for each case, not only five aggregated parts.
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- Line 125: Update the node label row in the reset section to explicitly
instruct contributors to remove the L5 selector label from the second worker,
preserving the requirement to clear all state before later single-node
validation cases.
- Around line 238-240: Update the H2 validation flow to verify all three
expected script keys before execution and treat an agent log containing “Could
not find file” as a failure. Preserve success only when each expected script is
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In `@docs/contributing/release-validation.md`:
- Around line 1-20: Update the release-validation guidance for cases L5 and H2
and the sign-off table: instruct operators to remove the L5 second-worker label
before later single-node cases, state that both agent implementations reject
missing referenced step files rather than reporting success, and expand sign-off
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Two review findings, both real. F4 gave the eviction as 'kubectl create --raw .../eviction -f -' with no request body. The -f - reads stdin, so following it literally hangs rather than evicting anything -- the exact class of defect this document cannot afford, since a validator who hits it concludes the product is broken. It now carries the full command with a policy/v1 Eviction body and states that a successful call returns 201. Verified by running the block verbatim against a live attempt. Setup claimed a kind cluster covers everything 'except Part 4's scale caveats'. Part 4 is the upgrade section and has no scale requirement -- the scale caveat belongs to 'Not covered here'. What Part 4 actually needs is the previous release's chart and a cluster rebuilt between its cases, which is what it now says. Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>
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- F4's block was not valid shell: 'POD=<a running attempt>' is a redirect, so pasting it errored before kubectl ran. It now derives POD from the cluster and quotes NAMESPACE, and was verified by extracting the block from this file and executing it (bash -n clean, call returned 201). - The reset table's L5 row described the hazard instead of instructing: it now says to remove the second worker's selector label, since leaving it on makes later single-node cases run across two nodes. - H2 could pass without running every step, because the agent treats a script it cannot find as success. The case now says its own assertion is the guard -- a step that did not run leaves no line -- and to check the line count, not just the order. - F5 named the TTL env vars but not how to set them on a chart install; both paths are now given. - Release process step 5 said to bump to -rc.2 and 'repeat until clean', which on a second repeat reuses an existing tag. It now says to take the next RC each time and gives the full tag form. Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>
The first draft claimed CI could not reach three things and then listed 22 cases, most of which chainsaw already asserts. One of the three claims was flatly wrong: 'upgrade from the previous release cannot be tested from one commit' sits next to make migration-test, whose README says it upgrades from the last pre-rename operator and proves state is adopted without re-running packages. helm/helm-upgrade-rollback-test covers the rollback mechanism, and k8s-tests/migration/skyhook-hold.yaml covers the in-flight hold. Checking case by case, roughly fourteen of the twenty-two had real coverage. A release checklist that re-does automated work by hand is worse than no checklist: it costs a day and trains people to skim. So this now opens by telling the releaser to run make test and make migration-test, lists what those cover so it is not re-tested, and keeps eight cases that are genuinely uncovered or covered only as a shape where the behaviour over time is the point: - kubelet-refused attempts (OutOfcpu appears nowhere in k8s-tests) - disruption casualties (DisruptionTarget appears nowhere) - a node deleted mid-run (cleanup-pods is orphaned pods after a state reset, a different path) - re-execution semantics (Idempotence appears nowhere, and this is the fact package authors most need) - TTL collection by outcome, where only the value is asserted today - disable-after-pause, where pause and resume are covered but the interaction is not - a stage timeout firing, where only its presence is asserted - node state across a rollback, which the helm test cannot show because it never drives a package Three of those four hard gaps were found by running the suite by hand, which is the argument for keeping a manual pass at all. Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>
Rescoped: 22 cases → 8, after checking what CI already covers (
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| 1 | kubelet-refused attempts | OutOfcpu appears nowhere in k8s-tests/ |
| 2 | disruption casualties | DisruptionTarget appears nowhere |
| 3 | node deleted mid-run | cleanup-pods sweeps orphaned pods after a state reset — a different path |
| 4 | re-execution semantics | Idempotence appears nowhere, and it is the fact package authors most need |
| 5 | TTL collection by outcome | failure-nodewright asserts the TTL value; nothing shows the cluster acting on it |
| 6 | disable must not resume | pause-suspends-jobs covers pause and resume, not the interaction |
| 7 | stage timeout fires | simple-nodewright asserts stageTimeout is set, not that it fires |
| 8 | node state survives rollback | the helm test never drives a package, so it cannot speak to state |
Cases 1–4 are outright gaps; 5–8 are covered as a shape where the thing worth checking is behaviour
over time — which chainsaw is bad at and a human watching a cluster is good at.
Three of those four hard gaps were found by running the suite by hand, which is the honest argument
for keeping a manual pass at all. Net: -221/+146 lines, 196 total, and every referenced test path,
make target and cross-link verified to resolve.
…n operator changes Auditing the manual release checklist against the suites showed most of it was already covered. Four of the remaining gaps were automatable, so they are tests rather than a document telling someone to do it by hand. New chainsaw tests, all in the core pool: - stage-timeout: a package asks for 600s and is allowed 20s, so a pod reporting DeadlineExceeded proves the deadline fired without the test measuring wall-clock. Also asserts the Job carries no whole-stage deadline, which #402 removed and nothing guarded. - kubelet-refused: package pods carry spec.nodeName, so kubelet admission is the only gate; asking for more CPU than the node has makes every attempt refused with no container statuses at all. Asserts the package never goes erroring -- blaming it would park a stage that never ran a line of script when the node is what needs attention. - disruption-casualty: evicts a running attempt through the eviction subresource so DisruptionTarget is actually set, then asserts the retry budget is untouched and a replacement runs. A plain delete does not set the condition, which is why this needs the raw subresource call. pause-suspends-jobs gains the disable interaction: pause, then add disable and remove pause in one edit. The Job must stay suspended. Pause and resume were covered; the transition between the two annotations was not, and it is where a resume can slip through. All three poll to an outcome rather than a fixed duration -- the first drafts held for a flat 2-3 minutes each, which the pools cannot afford. kubelet-refused tracks the highest status.failed seen instead of waiting for backoffLimit+1, because the operator sweeps a fully-refused Job and recreates it, resetting the counter; the sweep is correct and would have made the test flaky. Separately, operator-ci gains an operator-agent row. agent-ci runs that suite when the agent changes, but nothing ran it when the operator changed -- and the operator is what builds the pod the agent runs in: its args, mounts, copy dir and config.json. Every other suite uses the agentless image, which never reads any of that, so a break in the contract could reach a release unnoticed. AGENT_IMAGE is read from chart/values.yaml so bumping the agent cannot leave the row testing an older one. The manual document drops from eight cases to four. Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>
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Automates three failure-path cases as chainsaw tests, extends a fourth, wires the operator-agent
suite to run on operator changes, and keeps the four things that genuinely still need a human as
docs/contributing/release-validation.md.How it got here
It started as a 22-case manual checklist. Auditing it against the existing suites showed most of it
was already covered — including one thing the document claimed CI could not do (
make migration-testupgrades from the last pre-rename operator and proves packages do not re-run). So the checklist shrank
to 8 real gaps, then to 4 once the automatable ones became tests. The remaining document opens by
telling the releaser to run
make testandmake migration-testfirst.New chainsaw tests (
corepool)stage-timeoutDeadlineExceededproves the deadline fired without measuring wall-clock. Also asserts the Job carries no whole-stage deadline — #402 removed it and nothing guarded its absencekubelet-refusedspec.nodeName, so kubelet admission is the only gate; asking for more CPU than the node has makes every attempt refused with no container statuses. Asserts the package never goeserroringdisruption-casualtyDisruptionTargetis set, then asserts the retry budget is untouched and a replacement runspause-suspends-jobsgains the disable interaction: pause, then add disable and remove pause in oneedit — the Job must stay suspended. Pause and resume were covered; the transition between the two
annotations was not, and that is where a resume slips through.
All four were run individually against a live cluster before pushing.
operator-agentnow runs on operator changesagent-ci.yamlruns that suite when the agent changes. Nothing ran it when the operatorchanged — even though the operator builds the pod the agent runs in: its args, mounts, copy dir and
config.json. Every other suite uses theagentlesspackage image, which never reads any of that,so a break in the contract could reach a release unnoticed.
New
operator-agentrow inoperator-ci.yaml, resolvingAGENT_IMAGEfromchart/values.yamlsobumping the agent in one place cannot leave the row testing an older one. The suite refuses to run
without an explicit
AGENT_IMAGEbecause the Makefile's global default isagentless— which wouldpass every case while executing nothing.
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the pools cannot afford; the three new tests now total ~67s.
kubelet-refusedtracks the higheststatus.failedseen rather than waiting forbackoffLimit + 1. The operator sweeps a fully-refused Job and recreates it, resetting the counter —correct behaviour that would have made a naive exit condition flaky. Caught by running it.
code — which is the argument for keeping the (now much shorter) manual document at all.
RELEASE_NOTES.mdentry: nothing to do at upgrade time.