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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe pull request changes the default runtime-required taint key to Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Mergeability Score: 🟡 Moderate · up to This change updates runtime taint defaults and legacy-key handling, but explicitly pinned legacy configurations may fail to tolerate or remove the new taint in mixed-key clusters, potentially leaving workloads unschedulable; the release guidance also contains a credential-exposure risk when bearer-token access is used with TLS verification disabled. These issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@docs/runtime_required.md`:
- Around line 9-11: Update the prerequisite guidance in the runtime-required
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In `@docs/runtime_required.md`:
- Line 18: Update the warning in the runtime-required documentation to apply
only to unrecognized taint keys, or explicitly to the period after the legacy
skyhook.nvidia.com compatibility shim is removed; preserve the documented
support for both the current nodewright.nvidia.com key and the legacy key during
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- Line 48: Update the legacy-key removal statement in the migration
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…ia.com The taint key is a coordination point with infrastructure the operator cannot see: autoscaler and Karpenter node pools, machine templates, kubelet --register-with-taints arguments, and tolerations on users' own workloads all name it. Flipping the default alone would leave nodes carrying a key nothing removes, sitting unschedulable, which is a cluster-down failure mode for anyone using autoTaintNewNodes. The operator therefore now separates the taint it applies from the taints it recognises. It applies only the configured taint, but tolerates and removes the legacy skyhook.nvidia.com key as well for the deprecation window, and treats a node already carrying either key as gated so autoTaintNewNodes and the post-reboot re-taint do not stack a second taint. Existing taints on existing nodes are never rewritten. Also fixes config/manager/manager.yaml setting RUNTIME_REQUIRED_TAINT_KEY, which the operator never reads, so a kustomize install silently ignored the value in the manifest and fell back to the built-in default. The runtime-required chainsaw suite deliberately stays on the legacy key as the deprecation-window coverage; auto-taint-new-nodes covers the current key. Closes #439 Signed-off-by: Brian Lockwood <lockwobr@gmail.com>
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75-84: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftDocument the trust boundary for
insecureSkipVerify. The metrics job disables server authentication before sending a bearer token. The chart does not enforce a restricted network boundary because its metrics NetworkPolicy allows all ingress and egress. Restrict scrapes to a trusted path, or provide a stable CA and enable certificate verification.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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…ith autoTaintNewNodes The prerequisite claimed a node MUST join the cluster already carrying the runtime-required taint. That is only true for the pre-taint path: with autoTaintNewNodes: true the operator applies the taint itself, which is the documented fallback for exactly the case where you cannot taint at provisioning time. The page contradicted itself two sections later. Spell out both paths, and note that key recognition matters for both since an unrecognised taint is never removed. Same overstatement fixed in the chart README. Signed-off-by: Brian Lockwood <lockwobr@gmail.com>
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41-48: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winLimit the scope of explicit legacy pinning.
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runtimeRequiredTaintis set to the legacy value,GetRuntimeRequiredTaints()returns only that taint because it matcheslegacyRuntimeRequiredTaint. The operator then does not tolerate or remove the newnodewright.nvidia.comtaint. State that this configuration is safe only when all runtime-required nodes use the legacy key, and instruct mixed-key clusters to retain the default configuration.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@chart/README.md`:
- Line 36: Clarify automatic toleration scope so it applies only to NodeWright
package pods, not the controller manager. Update chart/README.md lines 36-36 and
docs/runtime_required.md lines 111-111 to retain the requirement for a
controller manager toleration on tainted system nodes; do not change chart
behavior unless also updating the related chart documentation at line 57.
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In `@docs/runtime_required.md`:
- Around line 41-48: Update the legacy runtimeRequiredTaint documentation to
state that explicitly pinning the legacy value is safe only when all
runtime-required nodes use the legacy taint key; instruct mixed-key clusters to
retain the default configuration so both legacy and new taints are handled.
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…ckage pods "NodeWright pods tolerate it" and "No additional toleration is required" both read as covering every pod the chart installs. They do not: the operator stamps the runtime-required toleration onto package pods only, while the controller-manager pod carries just what controllerManager.tolerations gives it (default []). chart/README.md already said so at line 57, so the table entry contradicted the note below it. A reader could conclude the operator schedules onto runtime-required-tainted nodes unaided, which it does not. Signed-off-by: Brian Lockwood <lockwobr@gmail.com>
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Resolves 12 conflicts where main's rename work (#440 chart resource names, #462 metrics rename, #452 runtime-required taint key) touched files the Jobs work also changed: - Options struct keeps both PublishLegacyMetrics and the embedded JobOperatorOptions. - Pod builders moved to job_builder.go on this branch, so main's edits to createPodFromPackage / createInterruptPodForPackage were ported there: GetRuntimeRequiredToleration -> GetRuntimeRequiredTolerations (plural). - Chart values/deployment/README/RELEASE_NOTES keep both sides' knobs. - Chainsaw metrics assertions take main's nodewright_* names, keeping this branch's set -e and TIMEOUT harness lines. - manager.yaml takes main's RUNTIME_REQUIRED_TAINT spelling (the old RUNTIME_REQUIRED_TAINT_KEY was never read) alongside the JOB_* knobs. Two test fixes the merge required: main's new legacy-taint reboot spec now wires dal (TrackReboots deletes node Jobs on this branch), and the Job admission spec creates its own namespace instead of relying on the suite's, which moved to nodewright with the namespace default. Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>
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Summary
Moves the default runtime-required taint key from
skyhook.nvidia.comtonodewright.nvidia.com, with a deprecation window in which the operator still recognises the legacy key.Closes #439. Part of the rename tracked in #310.
Why this is not just a default bump
The taint key is a coordination point with infrastructure the operator cannot see: cluster autoscaler / Karpenter node pools, machine templates,
--register-with-taintskubelet arguments, and tolerations on users' own workloads all name it. Flipping the default alone would mean nodes come up carrying a key nothing removes, and they sit unschedulable. That is a cluster-down failure mode for anyone usingautoTaintNewNodes, not a cosmetic break.Behavior during the deprecation window
The operator now distinguishes "the taint I apply" from "the taints I recognise":
RUNTIME_REQUIRED_TAINT, now defaulting tonodewright.nvidia.com=runtime-required:NoSchedule).skyhook.nvidia.com=runtime-required:NoSchedule, so package pods still schedule onto legacy-tainted nodes.runtimeRequired: trueNodeWright targeting a node has completed on it.autoTaintNewNodesand the post-reboot re-taint do not stack a second taint on it.Existing taints on existing nodes are never rewritten. A cluster whose provisioner still stamps the legacy key keeps working with no change; a cluster on the new key works immediately. An operator explicitly pinned to the legacy key sees one taint, not a duplicate.
Drive-by fix
operator/config/manager/manager.yamlsetRUNTIME_REQUIRED_TAINT_KEY, which the operator never reads. A kustomize install therefore ignored the value in the manifest and silently fell back to the built-in default. Corrected toRUNTIME_REQUIRED_TAINT.Patterns introduced
legacyRuntimeRequiredTaintfollows the existingMIGRATION-SHIMconstant pattern fromwrapper/zz.migration.0.18.0.go(legacySkyhookMetadataPrefix): a hardcoded transition-only literal rather than a new config knob, since the value can never change and is deleted wholesale at the removal release.GetRuntimeRequiredToleration()becameGetRuntimeRequiredTolerations()(slice), andNodePickernow takes a toleration slice. Call sites updated.Test coverage
Unit:
autoTaintNewNodesskips a node already carrying the legacy taintE2E:
auto-taint-new-nodesmoved to the new key (apply plus removal).runtime-requireddeliberately stays on the legacy key as the deprecation-window coverage, documented in its README so it is not "fixed" later, and flagged for deletion with the legacy key at the removal release.make unit-testsandmake fmt lintpass.Docs
docs/runtime_required.mdgains a rename section covering what to update in autoscaler / node-pool config and the deprecation window.docs/taints.md,docs/nodewright-migration.md, anddocs/cli.mdall previously asserted the taint key "did not move in the rename" and are corrected. Chart README and values, plus operator and chart release notes, updated.Reviewer notes
skyhook.nvidia.comgroup at the removal release". Happy to pin it to a specific release instead if you want a firmer commitment.runtimeRequiredTaintto a custom key now also gets the legacy key removed from nodes their runtime-required NodeWrights target. That is intended (it is the whole point of the window), but it is the one case where behavior changes for someone who never used the default.