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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>
…bs-migration/411-disable-no-resume

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

# Conflicts:
#	operator/internal/controller/skyhook_controller.go
…snapshot (#413)

* fix(operator): merge node-state deltas instead of restamping a stale snapshot

The heavy pass, JobReconciler and PodReconciler are three controllers with
three workqueues, all writing nodewright.nvidia.com/nodeState_<name> — one
annotation whose value is a single JSON document covering every package.
Before the Job and Pod watches became their own controllers they rode the
heavy pass's queue at MaxConcurrentReconciles 1 and could not interleave;
splitting them removed that guarantee without replacing it.

The heavy pass builds its result from a snapshot taken at cluster-state build
time and then patches the whole value unconditionally. A completion recorded
by JobReconcile in between is reverted to in_progress, and nothing re-records
it because the Job is already marked state-recorded: the stage recovers only
by being torn down and re-run.

Locking the write would not have fixed it. The value is computed long before
the write, so a lock just serializes a stale value into place. Instead derive
the pass's delta by diffing its starting snapshot against its result, and
apply only that on top of whatever the annotation holds at write time, under
an optimistic lock with retry. Entries the pass never touched keep whatever
another writer put there.

The patch target is rebuilt from the freshly read node rather than the pass's
own object, deliberately: that object predates any concurrent write, so
diffing against it would emit deletions for keys another writer added since
the snapshot — another NodeWright's nodeState_* among them.

SkyhookReconciler gains the uncached reader NewJobReconciler already takes.
Without it RetryOnConflict re-reads through the informer, rebuilds the same
resourceVersion precondition that just lost, and burns every attempt — which
is how the earlier optimistic-locking attempt produced a conflict storm.

The regression test was verified to fail against the old overwrite behaviour
before being kept.

Refs #411 (item 1).

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

* fix(operator): keep spec fields and the wrapper cache out of the merge's blast radius

Review of #413 found that rebuilding the patch target from the freshly read
node — the step that makes the node-state merge work — quietly turned two
other fields into whole-value restamps, and left the wrapper answering from a
cache the merge had invalidated.

spec.taints and spec.unschedulable were assigned from the pass outright on the
grounds that this controller owns them. It does not: the cluster autoscaler,
node-problem-detector and a human with kubectl all write taints, and
hasSkyhookCordon exists precisely because two Skyhooks can hold a cordon on
one node. With the fresh read as the patch base, an untouched field became an
explicit write — taints are listType=atomic so the list is replaced, and
Unschedulable is omitempty so false diffs as an explicit null. A pass that
never touched either could delete an autoscaler taint or uncordon a node
another Skyhook was draining. Both now replay only what the pass changed.

skyhookNode caches a parsed copy of node state and State() serves it whenever
it is non-nil, so replacing the embedded Node with the merged one left
IsComplete, NextStage and UpdateCondition reading the pre-merge map. That
published a NotReady/Incomplete condition for a node that had just completed
and dropped its MarkComplete event. The wrapper gains InvalidateStateCache,
matching the nodeState = nil precedent Reset and CleanupSCRMetadata already
use, and the merge calls it.

The node condition patch was still based on the pass's build-time snapshot
while being applied to the post-merge object. That re-sent whatever the
kubelet had changed in .status and carried the snapshot's resourceVersion into
the patch body, where the apiserver reads it as a precondition — so any
concurrent write turned it into a 409, and that error gates both the Skyhook's
UpdateCondition and its status patch. It is now based on the post-merge
object, so the diff is exactly the conditions UpdateCondition touches.

The untracked-node branch returned StrategicMergeFrom against a copy of the
object itself, which is an empty patch: a broken invariant would have silently
dropped the write. BuildState tracks and adds a node in the same step so it is
unreachable; it now says so.

Also drops the duplicated node reader in favour of the existing
readNodeForPatch, which is a free function for exactly this reason.

Both new spec-field regressions and the cache-coherence assertion were
verified to fail against the unfixed code before being kept.

Refs #411 (item 1).

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

* test(operator): cover the conflict retry and the uncached read path

These were the last untested part of the node-state merge, called out on the
PR: nothing in the suite forced a conflict, so neither RetryOnConflict nor the
uncached branch of readNodeForPatch ever ran. The optimistic lock is only
worth anything if a conflict is retried AND the retry re-derives against a
fresh read, and neither half was being checked.

The first test forces a conflict on the first patch via an interceptor client
(the pattern job_controller_test.go already uses) and supplies the uncached
reader with a node the cached client does not have: a completion only the
apiserver knows about. It then asserts the patch was retried, that exactly one
uncached read happened (attempt 0 stays cached), and that the retry merged its
delta onto what the uncached read returned rather than onto the stale cache.
That last assertion is what makes the uncached branch load-bearing rather than
an optimisation nobody would notice losing.

The second covers the node being deleted between attempts, which returns nil
rather than an error: a node that went away mid-pass has no state to
resurrect.

Both were verified against sabotaged code before being kept. Disabling the
uncached branch fails both; replacing RetryOnConflict with a single call fails
both.

Refs #411 (item 1).

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

* fix(operator): wrap propagated errors and replay a pass-owned taint edit

CodeRabbit review on #413. Three findings; one was already closed by the
adversarial-review pass, two were not.

Wrap the propagated errors in saveNodeChanges. Five bare `return err` values
from a function that reads, merges and patches, which the coding guidelines
forbid outright. The patch error is wrapped with %w deliberately:
RetryOnConflict decides via apierrors.IsConflict, which unwraps, so the retry
keeps working — and the conflict-retry spec added in 115d1a4 fails if that
ever stops being true, which is how this was checked rather than assumed.

Replay a pass-owned taint edit that a concurrent delete removed. If original
and modified hold the same taint identity with different values and the fresh
read no longer has it, applyTaintChanges dropped the pass's edit: the second
loop only appended identities absent from original. It now appends when the
pass added the taint OR changed the value of one it inherited, while an
identity the pass left exactly as it found it still yields to the concurrent
deletion.

This one is latent rather than live: Taint() early-returns when the key is
already present and RemoveTaint() only removes, so the operator has no path
that edits a taint's value in place and the scenario is unreachable today.
Pinned with specs on both sides of the rule so it stays closed if such a path
ever appears.

Also adds the untracked-node spec CodeRabbit asked for, inverted to match what
that branch now does. Its suggestion — assert the node still changed — was
right for the original code, which diffed the object against a copy of itself
and silently dropped the write. The branch returns an error now, so the spec
asserts that instead: a broken invariant must not look like success.

The retry-loop half of that same finding was already covered by 115d1a4.

Refs #411 (item 1).

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

* fix(operator): compare inherited taints by value, not by struct identity

CodeRabbit review on #413, and a real bug in the taint fix from c4b0cfb.

corev1.Taint carries TimeAdded *metav1.Time, so `originalTaint != taint`
compares pointer identity, not the instant. original and modified are separate
DeepCopies and DeepCopy allocates a fresh *metav1.Time, so every taint that
carries TimeAdded compared as edited even when the pass never touched it — and
the edit-replay branch then resurrected taints another writer had concurrently
deleted. That is the exact failure mode the surrounding code exists to prevent.

Key and Effect are the taint's identity, so Value is the only thing an edit can
change; comparing it sidesteps the pointer entirely. TimeAdded is set by the
system rather than this operator, so it has no business driving a replay
decision either way.

The existing specs missed it because every fixture left TimeAdded nil, where
two nil pointers compare equal. The new one sets it, and fails against the
struct compare.

Refs #411 (item 1).

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

* fix(operator): re-seed the node-state cache instead of nilling it

cli-e2e has failed on every commit since ff2ca87, consistently, on
cli-deployment-policy-reset: the rollout stalls at progressPercent 50 with
status waiting and an empty batchState. This is the cause.

ff2ca87 added InvalidateStateCache, which set skyhookNode.nodeState to nil so
the next State() would re-parse the merged annotation. State() does re-parse
when the cache is nil — but IsComplete, NextStage, GetComplete and
PackageStatus read node.nodeState DIRECTLY and never go through State(). A nil
cache therefore reads as "no package has any state": a node that had just
completed reported incomplete, its MarkComplete event never fired,
RemoveNodePriority was never called, and skyhook.IsComplete stayed false, so
the DeploymentPolicy batch never advanced past the first node.

NodeState.Upsert makes it worse still — it allocates a fresh map over a nil
one, so the next write on that wrapper would have dropped every other
package's entry.

Replaced with ReloadState, which re-parses into the cache rather than leaving
it nil. That is what the review actually asked for; nilling it was my
substitution and it was wrong.

The unit test missed it because it asserted through State(), the one accessor
that tolerates a nil cache by re-parsing. It now also asserts through
PackageStatus, which reads the cache directly, and fails against the nil-cache
version.

Refs #411 (item 1).

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

* refactor(operator): diff against the snapshot, merge only the contended value

Review found the justification for rebuilding the patch target from the freshly
read node does not hold. A two-way strategic merge diff is computed from the
snapshot and the pass's object alone, so a key present in neither -- another
NodeWright's nodeState_*, a foreign label, an autoscaler taint -- cannot appear
in the patch at all. The emitted body for a pass that edits one annotation and
two labels is exactly:

  {"metadata":{"annotations":{"...nodeState_a":"..."},"labels":{"added":"1","drop":null}}}

Rebuilding from the fresh read is what turned every untouched field into an
explicit write, and applyPassChanges/applyMapChanges/applyTaintChanges existed
only to undo that. The taint half did not fully succeed: its first loop
restamped the pass's value over a taint another writer had edited, and dropped
TimeAdded that the apiserver had stamped on a NoExecute taint. Both were
reachable by a pass that changed no taints at all.

So keep the pass's snapshot as the diff base and splice the fresh
resourceVersion into it for the lock. The base serves two roles -- left-hand
side of the diff, and source of the optimistic-lock precondition -- and
MergeFromWithOptimisticLock reads the version from the base, so the two can be
served by different objects. Only the contended annotation value is re-derived.
spec.unschedulable and spec.taints then need no handling whatsoever: unchanged
by the pass means absent from the diff.

That removes 122 lines and both taint regressions with them. Clobbering a
foreign taint when the pass DOES change a taint is pre-existing on main and is
tracked in #447; the structural fix that would delete the delta machinery
outright is #448.

Also guards the merge on the pass having kept the annotation. Reset() deletes it
outright and means it, so re-merging would resurrect the key it just wiped --
a divergence from main that the fresh-read version shared.

The foreign-metadata assertions move off applyPassChanges unit specs onto the
real saveNodeChanges path, where a stored node carries a foreign label, a second
NodeWright's state key, an autoscaler taint and a cordon that this pass never
saw. Verified to fail with the base swapped back to the fresh read.

Refs #411 (item 1).

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

* test(operator): cover the wipe guard and the divergence the sweep clears

Two gaps found auditing what the node-state work actually proves.

The passKeptState guard shipped without a spec. Reset() deletes the annotation
outright, and a delta of pure removals would otherwise be re-marshalled and
written back as "{}" -- resurrecting the key the pass just wiped and leaving a
node that reads as tracked-with-no-packages rather than untracked. Verified to
fail with the guard forced true.

shouldDeleteFinishedJob had four cases and none of them was the one the lost
update actually produces. Absent-entry was covered (a reset or an uninstall) but
not an entry reverted to (this stage, in_progress), which is the regression
shape: a completion clobbered back by the pass. That predicate is the reason a
lost update self-heals rather than stalling, at the cost of re-running the
stage, so it is worth pinning as its own case rather than inferring it from the
absent-entry one.

Refs #411 (item 1).

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

---------

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>
fix(operator): never resume a disabled NodeWright's suspended Jobs
Brings the jobs branch up to main (15 commits behind, 55 ahead). Seven files
conflicted; three needed a semantic resolution rather than a side pick, because
main fixed code that this branch had moved or deleted.

Ported forward, not dropped:

- #450's semantic resource comparison. Main fixed podMatchesPackage to compare
  quantities with apiequality.Semantic instead of reflect.DeepEqual: apimachinery
  rewrites a quantity into canonical form on serialization ("4000m" -> "4"), so a
  pod read back is never byte-equal and reflect.DeepEqual reports a mismatch that
  isn't one, invalidating and recreating forever. That function moved to
  job_builder.go on this branch and still had the pre-fix reflect.DeepEqual, so
  the Jobs path carried the same bug. Taking either side of the conflict would
  have shipped it; the fix is now in job_builder.go where the function lives, and
  the now-unused apiequality import is dropped from skyhook_controller.go.

- #410's skyhook -> nodewright event text. Main renamed every "[skyhook:%s]" in
  controller sources; this branch had added three more in job_controller.go and
  pod_controller.go that main could not reach. Renamed to match.

- Main's "Resource Comparison" spec block. It exercises podMatchesPackage, which
  survives here, so it tests exactly the fix above and is kept alongside this
  branch's "cluster state compartments" block rather than replaced by it.

Side picks, with reasons:

- pod_controller.go / skyhook_controller.go ValidateRunningPackages: main edited
  raw-pod code this branch replaced with the Jobs path. Ours, plus the rename.
- chart/templates/manager-rbac.yaml: main's #371 removed the kube-rbac-proxy
  Role; that deletion auto-merged elsewhere in the file and the conflicting hunk
  is this branch's new least-privilege namespaced Role. Ours.
- strict-order chainsaw: main's script block lacks the "set -e" guard this branch
  added. Ours.
- Both RELEASE_NOTES.md: additive bullets under the same heading describing
  different shipped changes. Both kept.

Also repairs a textual auto-merge artifact: main added six workload_migration
specs calling the 4-argument NewSkyhookReconciler, which this branch widened to
six parameters (uncached reader + clientset). Updated to match.

make unit-tests passes (8 suites, 333 controller specs), golangci-lint 0 issues.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>
The Jobs release notes said a stage killed by its own deadline gets a
last-logs snapshot. It does not, and manual validation on 2026-08-12 and
again on 2026-08-13 found the annotation empty in every package-stage
case: a per-attempt deadline fails the pod in place, so the archive holds
the logs and snapshotFailureLogs deliberately skips.

The annotation is still written for an interrupt Job's whole-stage
deadline, where the Job controller deletes the pod, so the note now says
that instead of promising it for every timeout.

Refs #449, which tracks the fact that the fallback is currently
unreachable for package Jobs at all.

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

docs(operator): correct where a timed-out stage's logs actually live
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The operator migrates package and interrupt execution from raw Pods to batch/v1 Jobs. It adds Job creation, retries, deadlines, retention, failure evidence, pause suspension, resumption, cleanup, and migration handling. It adds namespace-scoped Job and Secret access, pod-log access, controller wiring, API configuration, validation, tests, compatibility guidance, and end-to-end scenarios.

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Inline comments:
In `@chart/README.md`:
- Around line 36-39: Update the settings table near the job TTL and
stage-timeout entries to document controllerManager.manager.env.jobBackoffLimit,
including its default value of "3", retry semantics, maximum attempt count, and
the behavior when set to "0".
- Line 36: Update the controllerManager.manager.env.jobTtlSucceeded description
in chart/README.md at lines 36-36 to state that the success TTL does not apply
to successful explicit uninstall, which deletes its Job and pod immediately.
Update chart/RELEASE_NOTES.md at lines 17-18 to state that successful explicit
uninstall does not retain Job or pod logs.

Apply the same fix in `@operator/RELEASE_NOTES.md` around lines 105 - 110: The
operator release notes also claim all finished work remains available.

In `@docs/designs/2026-07-10-package-execution-as-jobs.md`:
- Line 140: Update the archive-retention statement and related scale guidance to
clarify that pruneFailedAttempts caps only genuine failed child pods during
active handleActiveJob reconciliation; disruption casualties are excluded, and
terminal Jobs may retain additional failed pods if no further active reconcile
occurs.
- Around line 183-191: Update
docs/designs/2026-07-10-package-execution-as-jobs.md lines 183-191 to mark the
package-Job last-logs snapshot as unavailable rather than documenting it as
current behavior; do not implement it. Update docs/kubernetes-support.md line 32
to remove the implication that Kubernetes 1.31+ provides this snapshot.

In `@docs/nodewright-migration.md`:
- Around line 254-256: The legacy-pod check command should not hard-code the
skyhook namespace. Update the kubectl query in the migration documentation to
use the installed operator namespace placeholder or an all-namespace query,
while preserving the existing label selector.

In `@k8s-tests/chainsaw/nodewright/pause-suspends-jobs/chainsaw-test.yaml`:
- Around line 120-127: Update the node-state validation in the
pause-suspends-jobs test to require the targeted nodes’
nodeState_pause-suspends-jobs annotation to equal in_progress while the Job is
suspended. Fail the test when the annotation is missing or has any other value,
while preserving the existing error message and failure behavior for invalid
states.

In `@operator/internal/controller/annotations_test.go`:
- Around line 114-128: Add a test in the annotation specs for a Job whose
packageAnnotationKey value is malformed JSON, asserting that GetPackage and
IsInvalidPackage return errors and InvalidatePackage fails without panicking.

In `@operator/internal/controller/job_builder_test.go`:
- Around line 258-275: The API admission test should create Jobs in the suite’s
configured namespace rather than the hardcoded namespace in opts. Update the
local options used by createJobFromPackage and createInterruptJobFromPackage so
their namespace matches the envtest suite namespace, while preserving the
existing admission and cleanup flow.

In `@operator/internal/controller/job_controller.go`:
- Around line 696-703: The metadata updates currently use full-object updates
that can overwrite newer Job spec fields; in
operator/internal/controller/job_controller.go lines 696-703, take a deep copy
before writing annotationLastLogs and replace r.Update with a metadata-scoped
merge patch; in operator/internal/controller/skyhook_controller.go lines
3074-3084, take a deep copy before InvalidatePackage(obj) and replace the
InvalidPackage r.Update with the same merge-patch pattern.

Apply the same fix in `@operator/internal/controller/skyhook_controller.go` around
lines 3074 - 3084: The invalid-package marker is written through the same
full-object update pattern.

In `@operator/internal/controller/node_state_merge_test.go`:
- Around line 198-212: Move the equivalent SkyhookOperatorOptions builder from
the saveNodeChanges conflict retry Describe block to package scope, then reuse
that helper for both repeated option literals in saveNodeChanges and the
existing conflict-retry setup. Preserve all current option values and ensure all
three Describe fixtures use the shared helper.

In `@operator/internal/controller/pod_controller.go`:
- Around line 68-74: Update ownedPod to accept the operator namespace, reject
pods outside it, and require both the nodewright.nvidia.com/name and
nodewright.nvidia.com/package labels. Pass options.Namespace through
NewPodReconciler when constructing the predicate, and update existing ownedPod
test call sites to provide the namespace.

In `@operator/internal/controller/skyhook_controller_test.go`:
- Around line 1984-2026: Remove the earlier duplicate “should partition nodes
into compartments” test from the Resource Comparison Describe, including its
repeated fixtures and assertions; retain the dedicated “cluster state
compartments” Describe and its test unchanged.

In `@operator/internal/controller/skyhook_controller.go`:
- Around line 2960-2971: The orphaned-node sweep comments around jobNodeName
should state that a pinned node may be absent or no longer selected, since
BuildState and ReportState omit such nodes before ValidateRunningPackages runs.
Keep the deletion behavior unchanged for any node missing from nodesByName.

In `@operator/internal/dal/dal_test.go`:
- Around line 134-210: Convert TestTailAndSanitize and TestGetPodLogTail to
Ginkgo/Gomega specs within the existing suite, replacing t.Run and t.Fatalf with
DescribeTable/It and appropriate matchers. Preserve all current test cases,
inputs, expected outputs, error assertions, UTF-8 checks, and fake-client
behavior, following the structure used by the nearby Job accessors block.
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Comment thread chart/README.md
| controllerManager.manager.env.leaderElection | Enable leader election for the operator controller. Default is "true" and is required for production. | "true" |
| controllerManager.manager.env.logLevel | Log level for the operator controller. If you want more or less logs, change this value to "debug" or "error". | "info" |
| controllerManager.manager.env.reapplyOnReboot | Reapply the packages on reboot. This is useful for systems that are read-only. | "false" |
| controllerManager.manager.env.jobTtlSucceeded | How long a package-stage Job that succeeded is kept before Kubernetes deletes it (`ttlSecondsAfterFinished`), taking its logs with it. Minimum "1m" — the operator fails to start on anything smaller, so "0" is not a way to disable retention. | "1h" |

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Document the explicit-uninstall retention exception consistently. Successful explicit uninstall currently deletes its Job and pod immediately, so its output is not retained for the configured success TTL. Qualify the success-retention description in the chart documentation and release notes for both chart and operator packages, or fix #443 before release.

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  • chart/README.md#L36-L36 (this comment)
  • operator/RELEASE_NOTES.md#L105-L110
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In `@chart/README.md` at line 36, Update the
controllerManager.manager.env.jobTtlSucceeded description in chart/README.md at
lines 36-36 to state that the success TTL does not apply to successful explicit
uninstall, which deletes its Job and pod immediately. Update
chart/RELEASE_NOTES.md at lines 17-18 to state that successful explicit
uninstall does not retain Job or pod logs.

Apply the same fix in `@operator/RELEASE_NOTES.md` around lines 105 - 110: The
operator release notes also claim all finished work remains available.

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Comment on lines +198 to +212
r, err := NewSkyhookReconciler(scheme, c, c, k8sfake.NewClientset(), events.NewFakeRecorder(10),
SkyhookOperatorOptions{
Namespace: "skyhook",
CopyDirRoot: "/var/lib/skyhook",
AgentLogRoot: "/var/log/skyhook",
RuntimeRequiredTaint: "skyhook.nvidia.com=runtime-required:NoSchedule",
AgentImage: "ghcr.io/nvidia/skyhook/agent:1.2.3",
PauseImage: "registry.k8s.io/pause:3.10",
MaxInterval: 10 * time.Minute,
JobOperatorOptions: JobOperatorOptions{
JobTTLSucceeded: time.Hour,
JobTTLFailed: 24 * time.Hour,
JobStageTimeout: time.Hour,
},
})

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Reuse one options helper for all three Describe blocks.

The saveNodeChanges Describe repeats the same SkyhookOperatorOptions literal twice, and saveNodeChanges conflict retry already defines an equivalent opts() helper at lines 331-341. Move that helper to package scope in this file and call it from both places. This keeps the three fixtures from drifting when a new required option is added to Validate().

Also applies to: 287-301

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minimal, and validate.

In `@operator/internal/controller/node_state_merge_test.go` around lines 198 -
212, Move the equivalent SkyhookOperatorOptions builder from the saveNodeChanges
conflict retry Describe block to package scope, then reuse that helper for both
repeated option literals in saveNodeChanges and the existing conflict-retry
setup. Preserve all current option values and ensure all three Describe fixtures
use the shared helper.

Comment on lines +68 to +74
// ownedPod gates on nodewright.nvidia.com/name, so unrelated pods in the namespace never enter
// the workqueue. Job child pods inherit the full package label set, so they match.
func ownedPod() predicate.Predicate {
return predicate.NewPredicateFuncs(func(o client.Object) bool {
return labels.Set(o.GetLabels()).Has(fmt.Sprintf("%s/name", v1alpha1.METADATA_PREFIX))
})
}

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

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tests = Path("operator/internal/controller/skyhook_controller_test.go").read_text()

owned = re.search(r"func ownedPod\(\).*?\n\}", pod, re.S)
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Scope ownedPod to the operator namespace and require both package labels.

The Pod cache is cluster-wide for node drain, so a copied nodewright.nvidia.com/name label in another namespace can enqueue this controller and drive node-state writes. Require nodewright.nvidia.com/name and nodewright.nvidia.com/package, pass options.Namespace into NewPodReconciler, and update the existing ownedPod() test call sites.

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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In `@operator/internal/controller/pod_controller.go` around lines 68 - 74, Update
ownedPod to accept the operator namespace, reject pods outside it, and require
both the nodewright.nvidia.com/name and nodewright.nvidia.com/package labels.
Pass options.Namespace through NewPodReconciler when constructing the predicate,
and update existing ownedPod test call sites to provide the namespace.

Source: Learnings

Comment on lines +1984 to +2026
var _ = Describe("cluster state compartments", func() {
It("should partition nodes into compartments", func() {
skyhooks := &v1alpha1.NodeWrightList{
Items: []v1alpha1.NodeWright{
{
ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{Name: "skyhook-a"},
Spec: v1alpha1.NodeWrightSpec{
DeploymentPolicy: "deployment-policy-a",
},
},
},
}
nodes := &corev1.NodeList{
Items: []corev1.Node{
{ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{Name: "node-a", Labels: map[string]string{"a": "a"}}},
{ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{Name: "node-b", Labels: map[string]string{"a": "a"}}},
{ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{Name: "node-c", Labels: map[string]string{"b": "b"}}},
{ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{Name: "node-d", Labels: map[string]string{"c": "c"}}},
},
}
deploymentPolicies := &v1alpha1.DeploymentPolicyList{
Items: []v1alpha1.DeploymentPolicy{
{
ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{Name: "deployment-policy-a"},
Spec: v1alpha1.DeploymentPolicySpec{
Compartments: []v1alpha1.Compartment{
{Name: "compartment-a", Selector: metav1.LabelSelector{MatchLabels: map[string]string{"a": "a"}}},
{Name: "compartment-b", Selector: metav1.LabelSelector{MatchLabels: map[string]string{"c": "c"}}},
},
},
},
},
}

clusterState, err := BuildState(skyhooks, nodes, deploymentPolicies)
Expect(err).ToNot(HaveOccurred())
Expect(clusterState.skyhooks[0].GetCompartments()).To(HaveLen(3))
Expect(clusterState.skyhooks[0].GetCompartments()["compartment-a"].GetNodes()).To(HaveLen(2))
Expect(clusterState.skyhooks[0].GetCompartments()["compartment-b"].GetNodes()).To(HaveLen(1))
Expect(clusterState.skyhooks[0].GetCompartments()["__default__"].GetNodes()).To(HaveLen(1))
})
})

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the duplicated compartment spec.

The new cluster state compartments Describe repeats the spec that still exists at lines 1942-1981 inside the Resource Comparison Describe. Both specs are named should partition nodes into compartments and assert the same fixtures and expectations. The PR summary states the coverage was moved into a dedicated group, so the original occurrence should have been deleted. Delete the copy at lines 1942-1981 and keep this dedicated group.

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In `@operator/internal/controller/skyhook_controller_test.go` around lines 1984 -
2026, Remove the earlier duplicate “should partition nodes into compartments”
test from the Resource Comparison Describe, including its repeated fixtures and
assertions; retain the dedicated “cluster state compartments” Describe and its
test unchanged.

Comment on lines +2960 to 2971
// Orphaned-node sweep: the node this Job pins to no longer exists. Delete regardless of
// status — an unfinished one churns PodGC<->replacement forever against a missing node,
// and a finished one has no node state left to claim it.
node, nodeExists := nodesByName[jobNodeName(job)]
if !nodeExists {
if err := deleteJobForeground(ctx, r.Client, job); err != nil {
errs = append(errs, fmt.Errorf("error deleting orphaned-node job %s: %w", job.Name, err))
} else {
update = true
}
// else: explicit uninstall — leave found as-is so podMatchesPackage decides
continue
}

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

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checks = {
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        "if selector.Matches(labels.Set(node.Labels))" in state
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        and "CleanupRemovedNodes(skyhook)" in state
    ),
    "cleanup removes node state absent from selected nodes": (
        "change := cleanupNodeMap(status.NodeState, currentNodeNames)" in state
    ),
    "reconcile reports state before validates jobs": (
        controller.index("r.ReportState(ctx, clusterState, skyhook)")
        < controller.index("r.ValidateRunningPackages(ctx, skyhook)")
    ),
    "job sweep uses selected-node map": (
        "for _, node := range skyhook.GetNodes()" in controller
        and "nodesByName[node.GetNode().Name] = node" in controller
        and "node, nodeExists := nodesByName[jobNodeName(job)]" in controller
    ),
}

for name, result in checks.items():
    print(f"{'PASS' if result else 'FAIL'}: {name}")

if not all(checks.values()):
    raise SystemExit(1)
PY

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Mention de-selected nodes in the orphan-sweep comment. BuildState includes only nodes that match the selector, and ReportState removes their stored state before ValidateRunningPackages sweeps Jobs. Update the comments to cover nodes that are absent or no longer selected.

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In `@operator/internal/controller/skyhook_controller.go` around lines 2960 - 2971,
The orphaned-node sweep comments around jobNodeName should state that a pinned
node may be absent or no longer selected, since BuildState and ReportState omit
such nodes before ValidateRunningPackages runs. Keep the deletion behavior
unchanged for any node missing from nodesByName.

Comment on lines +134 to +210
func TestTailAndSanitize(t *testing.T) {
// A rune whose UTF-8 encoding is longer than one byte, used to build inputs
// that a byte-boundary cut would split.
multibyte := strings.Repeat("é", 100) // 2 bytes each → 200 bytes

cases := []struct {
name string
input string
maxBytes int64
want string
wantErr bool
}{
{name: "shorter than cap returns whole", input: "hello", maxBytes: 1024, want: "hello"},
{name: "longer than cap keeps the tail", input: "abcdef", maxBytes: 3, want: "def"},
{name: "zero cap returns empty", input: "abc", maxBytes: 0, want: ""},
{name: "negative cap returns empty", input: "abc", maxBytes: -1, want: ""},
{name: "exact cap returns whole", input: "abc", maxBytes: 3, want: "abc"},
{name: "spans multiple read chunks", input: strings.Repeat("x", 100*1024) + "TAIL", maxBytes: 4, want: "TAIL"},
}

for _, tc := range cases {
t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
got, err := tailAndSanitize(strings.NewReader(tc.input), tc.maxBytes)
if (err != nil) != tc.wantErr {
t.Fatalf("err = %v, wantErr = %v", err, tc.wantErr)
}
if got != tc.want {
t.Fatalf("got %q, want %q", got, tc.want)
}
})
}

// Invalid bytes, including a multibyte rune the tail cut in half, must come
// back as valid UTF-8.
t.Run("output is always valid UTF-8", func(t *testing.T) {
got, err := tailAndSanitize(strings.NewReader(string([]byte{0xff, 0xfe})+"ok"), 1024)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("unexpected error: %v", err)
}
if !utf8.ValidString(got) {
t.Fatalf("result is not valid UTF-8: %q", got)
}
if !strings.HasSuffix(got, "ok") {
t.Fatalf("expected trailing %q in %q", "ok", got)
}

// Cut a 2-byte rune in half by capping to an odd tail length.
cut, err := tailAndSanitize(strings.NewReader(multibyte), 3)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("unexpected error: %v", err)
}
if !utf8.ValidString(cut) {
t.Fatalf("split-rune result is not valid UTF-8: %q", cut)
}
})
}

func TestGetPodLogTail(t *testing.T) {
t.Run("returns the container logs from the clientset", func(t *testing.T) {
d := New(nil, k8sfake.NewClientset())
got, err := d.GetPodLogTail(context.Background(), "skyhook", "pod-1", "step", 1024)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("unexpected error: %v", err)
}
// The fake clientset serves a canned "fake logs" body for GetLogs.
if !strings.Contains(got, "fake logs") {
t.Fatalf("got %q, want it to contain %q", got, "fake logs")
}
})

t.Run("errors when no clientset is configured", func(t *testing.T) {
d := New(nil, nil)
if _, err := d.GetPodLogTail(context.Background(), "skyhook", "pod-1", "step", 1024); err == nil {
t.Fatal("expected an error when clientset is nil, got nil")
}
})
}

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Convert these tests to Ginkgo/Gomega.

TestTailAndSanitize and TestGetPodLogTail use stdlib t.Run and t.Fatalf. The package now owns a Ginkgo suite (dal_suite_test.go), so these cases run outside the suite's reporting and randomization. Use DescribeTable/It with Gomega matchers instead, matching the Job accessors block above.

As per coding guidelines: "Use Ginkgo/Gomega rather than stdlib t.Run".

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In `@operator/internal/dal/dal_test.go` around lines 134 - 210, Convert
TestTailAndSanitize and TestGetPodLogTail to Ginkgo/Gomega specs within the
existing suite, replacing t.Run and t.Fatalf with DescribeTable/It and
appropriate matchers. Preserve all current test cases, inputs, expected outputs,
error assertions, UTF-8 checks, and fake-client behavior, following the
structure used by the nearby Job accessors block.

Source: Coding guidelines

The release notes covered the Jobs migration's features but never its
upgrade story, and the one bullet #305 scoped for it asserted behavior
that does not exist: in-flight legacy pods finishing under an old path
for one minor. Those four accommodations were deliberately dropped in
favour of legacyMigrationHold, which stops the two execution models
overlapping at all — the design doc's Upgrade section already records
this, so the notes were the last place still implying a dual path.

Document what actually happens instead: the hold, the quiet-window
prerequisite, the cordoned-and-stalled node an operator sees if they
ignore it, and the one unsupported sequence the hold does not cover
(unpausing a migrated NodeWright while a pre-upgrade raw pod is still
live). Mirror the prerequisite into the chart notes, where helm upgrade
is what the user actually runs.

Also note the successful-uninstall retention carve-out (#443) next to
the retention bullet it contradicts, and correct the two remaining
comments — suspendUnfinishedJobs and the design doc's pause section —
that still described pause's legacy behavior as a closing migration
window rather than a difference across operator versions.

Add a Validation section to the design doc. docs/plans/ is gitignored,
so the hand-run pass behind #305 (16 Jobs cases, plus the rename pass
that exercised the hold) had no committed home; the repo rule asks for
the verification to be documented, and the not-covered list is part of
that record.

No behavior change.

Signed-off-by: Alex Yuskauskas <ayuskauskas@nvidia.com>
docs: record the Jobs upgrade contract and validation (#305)

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Inline comments:
In `@docs/designs/2026-07-10-package-execution-as-jobs.md`:
- Line 204: Update the migration-hold statement in the package-execution design
to acknowledge that paused or disabled legacy Skyhooks may still have a live raw
pod; state that re-enabling before the raw pod exits can start a Job beside it
on the same copyDir and is unsupported, while retaining the existing
cross-operator-version pause stop-strength explanation.
- Around line 325-345: Reconcile the validation summary with the table below it:
the heading must accurately report 17 cases, 16 passing, and 1 failing, while
preserving all listed case results.

In `@operator/internal/controller/skyhook_controller.go`:
- Around line 1084-1087: Update the comment describing legacyMigrationHold to
scope its protection to active legacy Skyhook rollouts only. State that paused
or disabled Skyhooks bypass the hold and existing raw pods are not suspended, so
unpausing or enabling the migrated NodeWright before pod termination can start a
Job concurrently; remove the claim that the execution models cannot overlap.

In `@operator/RELEASE_NOTES.md`:
- Around line 149-154: Update the uninstall retention documentation to match the
implemented behavior: either retain the successful uninstall Job and pod so logs
remain recoverable, or describe log loss as a known limitation and use the
correct issue reference. Adjust the successful-uninstall exception text without
changing the documented handling of failed uninstalls.
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  • chart/RELEASE_NOTES.md
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  • operator/internal/controller/skyhook_controller.go

- **Resume has an explicit owner and ordering.** Because the pause path only runs for paused Skyhooks and paused Skyhooks skip validation, un-suspension is a separate step for *non-paused* Skyhooks, ordered after validation: invalidate suspended Jobs whose spec changed while paused, *then* clear `suspend` on the survivors. Clearing first would let one stale-spec attempt launch before validation catches it.
- **Everything else is indifferent**: existence gating counts the suspended Job, completion ignores it (Suspended is not terminal), and node state stays `in_progress` (guard (c) of the erroring evidence makes that hold).
- **Interrupts already fired**: suspension can't un-ring a reboot; on resume the replacement pod skips the interrupt via the resource-id flag and completes.
- **Legacy pods can't suspend** — a pre-rename raw pod has no Job, so pause cannot stop one. It never has to: the migration hold keeps the two execution models from running side by side (see [Upgrade and compatibility](#upgrade-and-compatibility)). What stays version-dependent is pause's stop-strength *across operator versions* — a pre-Jobs operator lets an in-flight stage finish — which is the CLI-docs note.

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Correct the migration-hold claim.

The migration hold does not guarantee that a paused or disabled legacy Skyhook has no live raw pod. operator/RELEASE_NOTES.md Lines 192-200 states that re-enabling such a resource before its raw pod exits can start a Job beside it on the same copyDir. Replace “It never has to” with the supported condition and retain the warning for this unsupported case.

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In `@docs/designs/2026-07-10-package-execution-as-jobs.md` at line 204, Update the
migration-hold statement in the package-execution design to acknowledge that
paused or disabled legacy Skyhooks may still have a live raw pod; state that
re-enabling before the raw pod exits can start a Job beside it on the same
copyDir and is unsupported, while retaining the existing cross-operator-version
pause stop-strength explanation.

Comment on lines +325 to +345
**16 cases, 15 pass, 1 fail.**

| Case | Result |
| --- | --- |
| single package | pass — apply then config Jobs `Complete 1/1`, child pods retained and logs still readable, `state-recorded` set at completion |
| multiple packages + `dependsOn` | pass — one Job per (package, stage); the dependency completed before its dependents started |
| erroring, retries exhausted | pass — `failed=4` at `backoffLimit: 3`, `BackoffLimitExceeded`, exactly two archive pods (middle attempts pruned), no churn; editing the package cleared the terminal Job and the stage re-ran |
| stage timeout | pass — attempt killed at its own deadline, pod `Failed`/`DeadlineExceeded`, archive logs readable, per-attempt bound only |
| multiple CRs on one node | pass — no tick ever held unfinished Jobs from both CRs; separate `nodeState_` keys |
| interrupt grouping | pass — one merged interrupt Job for two packages, node cordoned during and uncordoned after, `skipped` sibling promoted to `complete` |
| explicit uninstall | **fail** — entry removed correctly, but the successful uninstall Job and its pod were deleted immediately, losing the logs (#443) |
| CR deletion with `uninstall.enabled` | pass — finalizer ran an uninstall Job during deletion; no `nodewright.nvidia.com/*` metadata left behind, node uncordoned |
| TTL by outcome | pass — succeeded collected first while the failed one remained, node state survived collection, sub-minute TTL rejected at startup |
| kubelet-refused attempts | pass — spent budget, never marked `erroring`, self-healed via sweep and recreate |
| pause / disable | pass — pause set `spec.suspend` and killed the running pod, resume started a fresh one; adding disable while clearing pause left the Job suspended |
| config update mid-flight | pass — ConfigMap not swapped mid-stage; the config stage re-ran afterwards with a new `resource-id` |
| two nodes + interruption budget | pass — never more than one node cordoned, one interrupt Job per node |
| node deleted mid-run | pass — orphaned-node Job foreground-deleted within seconds; the surviving node completed |
| disruption casualty | pass — evicted attempt spent no retry budget and never marked `erroring` |
| upgrade → downgrade | pass — upgrade removed the superseded entry; downgrade kept both, as `uninstall.md` intends |
| unpullable image | pass — bounded by `stageTimeout` rather than hanging indefinitely; the baseline #306 improves on |

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Reconcile the validation totals.

The heading reports 16 cases, 15 pass, and 1 fail. The table contains 17 rows: 16 pass and 1 fail, including unpullable image. Update the heading or table so the recorded test coverage is consistent.

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Reconcile the validation summary with the table below it: the heading must
accurately report 17 cases, 16 passing, and 1 failing, while preserving all
listed case results.

Comment on lines +1084 to +1087
// erroring-evidence guard (c) keeps node state at in_progress. A pre-rename raw pod has no Job and
// so cannot be suspended, but pause never has one of its own to stop: this change ships with the
// nodewright rename, so legacyMigrationHold keeps the two execution models from running side by
// side. See the design doc's Upgrade section.

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printf '%s\n' '--- migration hold and event routing ---'
rg -n -C 12 'legacyMigrationHold|PodReconcile|JobReconcile|Watches\(' \
  operator/internal/controller --glob '*.go'

printf '%s\n' '--- raw-Pod migration and pause handling ---'
rg -n -C 12 'setSuspendOnUnfinishedJobs|UpdatePauseStatus|legacy.*Pod|raw.*Pod|Delete.*Pod' \
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rg -n -C 8 'legacyMigrationHold' operator/internal/controller --glob '*.go' \
  | rg -v '(_test\.go|^[^:]+-[0-9]+-)' \
  | head -n 240

printf '%s\n' '--- reconciler declarations and entry points ---'
rg -n -C 6 'type (PodReconciler|JobReconciler|SkyhookReconciler)|func \(.*\) (PodReconcile|JobReconcile|Reconcile)|New(Pod|Job|Skyhook)Reconciler' \
  operator/internal/controller --glob '*.go' --glob '!**/*_test.go'

printf '%s\n' '--- controller setup and watch handlers ---'
rg -n -C 10 'SetupWithManager|Watches|PodReconcile|JobReconcile|EnqueueRequestsFromMapFunc' \
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printf '%s\n' '--- migration hold implementation ---'
cat -n operator/internal/controller/migration_hold.go | sed -n '1,145p'

printf '%s\n' '--- NodeWright heavy reconcile entry ---'
cat -n operator/internal/controller/skyhook_controller.go | sed -n '360,410p'

printf '%s\n' '--- Pod controller entry and execution logic ---'
cat -n operator/internal/controller/pod_controller.go | sed -n '75,180p'

printf '%s\n' '--- Job controller entry and execution logic ---'
cat -n operator/internal/controller/job_controller.go | sed -n '117,175p'

printf '%s\n' '--- startup wiring for all controllers ---'
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import re

files = {
    "operator/internal/controller/skyhook_controller.go": ["Reconcile"],
    "operator/internal/controller/pod_controller.go": ["Reconcile", "PodReconcile"],
    "operator/internal/controller/job_controller.go": ["Reconcile", "JobReconcile"],
}

def method_body(text, receiver, method):
    pattern = re.compile(
        rf"func \(r \*{re.escape(receiver)}\) {re.escape(method)}\([^{{]*\)\s*(?:\([^{{]*\)|[^{\n]+)?\s*\{{"
    )
    match = pattern.search(text)
    if not match:
        raise SystemExit(f"missing {receiver}.{method}")
    start = match.end()
    depth = 1
    i = start
    while i < len(text) and depth:
        if text[i] == "{":
            depth += 1
        elif text[i] == "}":
            depth -= 1
        i += 1
    return text[match.start():i]

for path, methods in files.items():
    text = Path(path).read_text()
    receiver = {
        "operator/internal/controller/skyhook_controller.go": "SkyhookReconciler",
        "operator/internal/controller/pod_controller.go": "PodReconciler",
        "operator/internal/controller/job_controller.go": "JobReconciler",
    }[path]
    for method in methods:
        body = method_body(text, receiver, method)
        print(f"{receiver}.{method}:")
        print(f"  legacyMigrationHold calls: {body.count('legacyMigrationHold')}")
        print(f"  create calls: {len(re.findall(r'\\b(Create|CreateOrUpdate|CreateOrPatch)\\s*\\(', body))}")
        print(f"  job deletion calls: {len(re.findall(r'\\b(deleteJobForeground|Delete)\\s*\\(', body))}")
        print(f"  node-state write calls: {len(re.findall(r'\\b(patchNodeState|recordPodErroring|recordJobCompletion|recordJobErroring)\\s*\\(', body))}")
PY

printf '%s\n' '--- heavy-pass Job creation and pause handling ---'
rg -n -C 10 'CreateOrUpdate|CreateOrPatch|Create\(|setSuspendOnUnfinishedJobs|legacyMigrationHold|IsPaused|IsDisabled' \
  operator/internal/controller/skyhook_controller.go --glob '*.go' --glob '!**/*_test.go'

printf '%s\n' '--- migration design statements ---'
rg -n -C 8 'Upgrade|pause|disabled|raw pod|side by side|legacyMigrationHold' \
  docs/designs docs/nodewright-migration.md --glob '*.md'

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from pathlib import Path
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files = {
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    "operator/internal/controller/pod_controller.go": ("PodReconciler", ["Reconcile", "PodReconcile"]),
    "operator/internal/controller/job_controller.go": ("JobReconciler", ["Reconcile", "JobReconcile"]),
}

def method_body(text, receiver, method):
    pattern = re.compile(
        r"func \(r \*" + re.escape(receiver) + r"\) " + re.escape(method) +
        r"\([^{}]*\)\s*(?:\([^{}]*\)|[^{\n]+)?\s*\{"
    )
    match = pattern.search(text)
    if not match:
        raise SystemExit("missing " + receiver + "." + method)
    start = match.end()
    depth = 1
    i = start
    while i < len(text) and depth:
        if text[i] == "{":
            depth += 1
        elif text[i] == "}":
            depth -= 1
        i += 1
    return text[match.start():i]

for path, (receiver, methods) in files.items():
    text = Path(path).read_text()
    for method in methods:
        body = method_body(text, receiver, method)
        create_count = len(re.findall(r"\b(Create|CreateOrUpdate|CreateOrPatch)\s*\(", body))
        delete_count = len(re.findall(r"\b(deleteJobForeground|Delete)\s*\(", body))
        write_count = len(re.findall(r"\b(patchNodeState|recordPodErroring|recordJobCompletion|recordJobErroring)\s*\(", body))
        print(receiver + "." + method + ":")
        print("  legacyMigrationHold calls:", body.count("legacyMigrationHold"))
        print("  create calls:", create_count)
        print("  job deletion calls:", delete_count)
        print("  node-state write calls:", write_count)
PY

printf '%s\n' '--- heavy-pass Job creation and pause handling ---'
rg -n -C 10 'CreateOrUpdate|CreateOrPatch|Create\(|setSuspendOnUnfinishedJobs|legacyMigrationHold|IsPaused|IsDisabled' \
  operator/internal/controller/skyhook_controller.go --glob '*.go' --glob '!**/*_test.go'

printf '%s\n' '--- migration design statements ---'
rg -n -C 8 'Upgrade|pause|disabled|raw pod|side by side|legacyMigrationHold' \
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Narrow the migration claim to active legacy rollouts.

legacyMigrationHold runs only in SkyhookReconciler; Pod and Job reconcilers do not create replacement execution. Paused or disabled legacy Skyhooks bypass the hold, and an existing raw pod is not suspended. Unpausing or enabling the migrated NodeWright before that pod exits can start a Job beside it. Align this comment with the documented unsupported transition and avoid claiming that the execution models can never overlap.

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In `@operator/internal/controller/skyhook_controller.go` around lines 1084 - 1087,
Update the comment describing legacyMigrationHold to scope its protection to
active legacy Skyhook rollouts only. State that paused or disabled Skyhooks
bypass the hold and existing raw pods are not suspended, so unpausing or
enabling the migrated NodeWright before pod termination can start a Job
concurrently; remove the claim that the execution models cannot overlap.

Comment thread operator/RELEASE_NOTES.md
Comment on lines +149 to +154
- **A successful `uninstall` stage is the one exception and keeps no logs.**
A successful no-interrupt uninstall's completion *is* the removal of the
package's node-state entry, so its Job is eligible for rerun cleanup the
moment it finishes and never serves out `JOB_TTL_SUCCEEDED`. Starting an
uninstall also clears that package's retained apply/config Jobs. Failed
uninstalls are retained normally (#443).

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Resolve the uninstall retention contract before documenting it.

These lines state that successful uninstall keeps no logs, but the PR validation records successful explicit uninstall as the only failed case because deleting the Job and pod makes output unrecoverable (#443). Retain the Job and pod, or label the log loss as a known limitation with the correct issue reference.

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In `@operator/RELEASE_NOTES.md` around lines 149 - 154, Update the uninstall
retention documentation to match the implemented behavior: either retain the
successful uninstall Job and pod so logs remain recoverable, or describe log
loss as a known limitation and use the correct issue reference. Adjust the
successful-uninstall exception text without changing the documented handling of
failed uninstalls.

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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operator/internal/controller/skyhook_controller.go (1)

1234-1239: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Do not acknowledge the reboot when Job deletion fails.

Line 1237 records the deletion error but continues to persist the reset and advance Status.NodeBootIds. The next reconcile then does not detect the same reboot again. A retained Job from the prior boot can later report completion against the reset node state.

Return before the boot ID update when deleteNodeJobs fails. This keeps reboot cleanup retryable.

Proposed fix
 if err := r.deleteNodeJobs(ctx, skyhook.GetSkyhook().Name, node.GetNode().Name); err != nil {
-    errs = append(errs, fmt.Errorf("error clearing jobs after reboot on node %s: %w", node.GetNode().Name, err))
+    return updates, fmt.Errorf("error clearing jobs after reboot on node %s: %w", node.GetNode().Name, err)
 }
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In `@operator/internal/controller/skyhook_controller.go` around lines 1234 - 1239,
Update the reboot cleanup flow around deleteNodeJobs so any deletion error
returns before persisting the reset or advancing Status.NodeBootIds. Preserve
the error reporting while leaving the reboot unacknowledged, allowing the next
reconciliation to retry cleanup.
docs/cli.md (1)

82-94: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Correct the legacy compatibility contract.

The matrix at Line 70 through Line 81 marks existing commands as full for v0.7.x and earlier. Line 127 also says lifecycle commands can appear to succeed. However, Line 20 through Line 24 require the NodeWright API group, and newLifecycleCmd performs EnsureNodeWrightServed before the version fallback in operator/cmd/cli/app/lifecycle.go. A pre-rename v0.7.x operator serves only skyhook.nvidia.com, so these commands fail preflight. Update the matrix and Line 127, or add a legacy API path.

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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

In `@docs/cli.md` around lines 82 - 94, Correct the legacy compatibility
documentation for lifecycle commands: because newLifecycleCmd calls
EnsureNodeWrightServed before version fallback, pre-rename v0.7.x operators
serving only skyhook.nvidia.com cannot use these commands. Update the
v0.7.x-or-earlier matrix entries and the lifecycle-command behavior statement to
reflect this failure, unless an actual legacy API path is implemented.
k8s-tests/chainsaw/nodewright/failure-nodewright/chainsaw-test.yaml (1)

65-75: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Make the final metrics script fail fast.

The set -e at Line 60 protects only the first script. The next script runs multiple metric checks without set -e. An early failure can be hidden by a later successful command. Add set -e at the start of this second script.

Add fail-fast handling
         content: |
+          set -e
           ../../metrics_test.py nodewright_node_status_count 1 -t nodewright_name=failure-skyhook -t status=erroring

This finding is based on the two adjacent metric script blocks in the supplied file.

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

In `@k8s-tests/chainsaw/nodewright/failure-nodewright/chainsaw-test.yaml` around
lines 65 - 75, Add fail-fast handling to the second metric-check script block by
placing set -e at the beginning of its content before the metrics_test.py
commands, so any failed check terminates the script immediately.
k8s-tests/chainsaw/nodewright/cleanup-pods/chainsaw-test.yaml (1)

65-103: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Use nodewright for the two Job assertions. The operator creates Jobs and Pods in its configured namespace, which is nodewright here. The Pod assertions already use the correct namespace.

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minimal, and validate.

In `@k8s-tests/chainsaw/nodewright/cleanup-pods/chainsaw-test.yaml` around lines
65 - 103, Update the Job assertions in
k8s-tests/chainsaw/nodewright/cleanup-pods/chainsaw-test.yaml at lines 65-103,
111, 150, and 189, and in
k8s-tests/chainsaw/nodewright/cleanup-pods/assert-config-complete.yaml at line
21, changing their Job namespace to nodewright. Keep the existing labels and
assertion behavior unchanged.
k8s-tests/chainsaw/nodewright/simple-nodewright/chainsaw-test.yaml (1)

74-75: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Make all multi-command metrics scripts fail fast.

Each script runs multiple metrics_test.py commands but does not set -e. If an early check fails and a later check succeeds, the shell returns the later command's status and Chainsaw can mark the step successful. Add set -e before the first command in both scripts.

Proposed fix
 content: |
+  set -e
   ../../metrics_test.py ...

Also applies to: 85-87

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In `@k8s-tests/chainsaw/nodewright/simple-nodewright/chainsaw-test.yaml` around
lines 74 - 75, Add set -e before the first metrics_test.py invocation in both
multi-command scripts, including the scripts containing the
nodewright_package_state_count and nodewright_package_stage_count checks, so
execution stops at the first failed command.
k8s-tests/chainsaw/nodewright/taint-scheduling/chainsaw-test.yaml (1)

65-66: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the duplicate blocked-status assertion.

Line 65 and Line 66 run the same nodewright_node_status_count check with the same labels. The second command adds no coverage. Replace it with the intended distinct assertion or remove it.

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minimal, and validate.

In `@k8s-tests/chainsaw/nodewright/taint-scheduling/chainsaw-test.yaml` around
lines 65 - 66, Remove the duplicate nodewright_node_status_count assertion for
the blocked status in the taint-scheduling test, or replace the second identical
command with the intended distinct check if one is defined. Keep one assertion
for nodewright_name=taint-scheduling and status=blocked.
k8s-tests/chainsaw/deployment-policy/linear-strategy/chainsaw-test.yaml (1)

125-127: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

The rollout tests do not fully enforce the current_batch contract.

The linear test accepts the retrieved value as its expected value, and the multi-compartment test omits the metric check.

  • k8s-tests/chainsaw/deployment-policy/linear-strategy/chainsaw-test.yaml#L125-L127: reject missing, zero, and invalid currentBatch values before checking the metric.
  • k8s-tests/chainsaw/deployment-policy/multi-compartment/chainsaw-test.yaml#L145-L148: add nodewright_rollout_current_batch checks for all three compartments.

The consolidation is based on the supplied rollout metric assertions.

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In `@k8s-tests/chainsaw/deployment-policy/linear-strategy/chainsaw-test.yaml`
around lines 125 - 127, The rollout metric assertions do not enforce the
current_batch contract. In
k8s-tests/chainsaw/deployment-policy/linear-strategy/chainsaw-test.yaml lines
125-127, validate that CURRENT_BATCH is present, numeric, and greater than zero
before invoking metrics_test.py, rather than using the retrieved value as an
unchecked expectation; in
k8s-tests/chainsaw/deployment-policy/multi-compartment/chainsaw-test.yaml lines
145-148, add nodewright_rollout_current_batch metric checks for all three
compartments.
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Outside diff comments:
In `@docs/cli.md`:
- Around line 82-94: Correct the legacy compatibility documentation for
lifecycle commands: because newLifecycleCmd calls EnsureNodeWrightServed before
version fallback, pre-rename v0.7.x operators serving only skyhook.nvidia.com
cannot use these commands. Update the v0.7.x-or-earlier matrix entries and the
lifecycle-command behavior statement to reflect this failure, unless an actual
legacy API path is implemented.

In `@k8s-tests/chainsaw/deployment-policy/linear-strategy/chainsaw-test.yaml`:
- Around line 125-127: The rollout metric assertions do not enforce the
current_batch contract. In
k8s-tests/chainsaw/deployment-policy/linear-strategy/chainsaw-test.yaml lines
125-127, validate that CURRENT_BATCH is present, numeric, and greater than zero
before invoking metrics_test.py, rather than using the retrieved value as an
unchecked expectation; in
k8s-tests/chainsaw/deployment-policy/multi-compartment/chainsaw-test.yaml lines
145-148, add nodewright_rollout_current_batch metric checks for all three
compartments.

In `@k8s-tests/chainsaw/nodewright/cleanup-pods/chainsaw-test.yaml`:
- Around line 65-103: Update the Job assertions in
k8s-tests/chainsaw/nodewright/cleanup-pods/chainsaw-test.yaml at lines 65-103,
111, 150, and 189, and in
k8s-tests/chainsaw/nodewright/cleanup-pods/assert-config-complete.yaml at line
21, changing their Job namespace to nodewright. Keep the existing labels and
assertion behavior unchanged.

In `@k8s-tests/chainsaw/nodewright/failure-nodewright/chainsaw-test.yaml`:
- Around line 65-75: Add fail-fast handling to the second metric-check script
block by placing set -e at the beginning of its content before the
metrics_test.py commands, so any failed check terminates the script immediately.

In `@k8s-tests/chainsaw/nodewright/simple-nodewright/chainsaw-test.yaml`:
- Around line 74-75: Add set -e before the first metrics_test.py invocation in
both multi-command scripts, including the scripts containing the
nodewright_package_state_count and nodewright_package_stage_count checks, so
execution stops at the first failed command.

In `@k8s-tests/chainsaw/nodewright/taint-scheduling/chainsaw-test.yaml`:
- Around line 65-66: Remove the duplicate nodewright_node_status_count assertion
for the blocked status in the taint-scheduling test, or replace the second
identical command with the intended distinct check if one is defined. Keep one
assertion for nodewright_name=taint-scheduling and status=blocked.

In `@operator/internal/controller/skyhook_controller.go`:
- Around line 1234-1239: Update the reboot cleanup flow around deleteNodeJobs so
any deletion error returns before persisting the reset or advancing
Status.NodeBootIds. Preserve the error reporting while leaving the reboot
unacknowledged, allowing the next reconciliation to retry cleanup.

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Manual validation re-run on 945b0061 (main merged in) — 15/16 pass

main is merged into this branch (7 commits: #452, #453, #460, #462, #463, #465, #467; 12 conflicts,
resolution described in the merge commit). Unit suite green — 14 suites, 0 failures. The full manual
suite was then re-run from scratch on a fresh cluster.

  • Build: feature/package-as-jobs @ 945b0061, operator run locally against kind (git_sha
    verified from the manager's startup log, defaults backoffLimit 3 / TTL 1h/24h).
  • Cluster: kind, 1 control-plane + 2 workers, k8s v1.35.0. Note the operator namespace is now
    nodewright — main moved the default in feat(cli): default install namespace to nodewright, discover it at runtime #453.
  • Method: every case reset first (CRs, Jobs, pods, ConfigMaps, per-CR node
    annotations/labels/taints/cordons) with a baseline assertion before starting; evidence captured
    mid-flight as well as at the end.
# Case Result Evidence that it passed
1 single package pass no Job-level activeDeadlineSeconds, per-attempt 3600, backoffLimit 3, podReplacementPolicy: Failed; pods retained and logs readable after completion; ttl=3600 + state-recorded set at completion
2 multiple packages + dependsOn pass 6 Jobs, exactly one per (package, stage); dexter reached config/complete on the same tick the dependents started
3 erroring, retries exhausted pass failed=4, BackoffLimitExceeded, ttl=86400, exactly 2 archive pods, no churn over 60s (same UID); both unpark paths — spec edit and kubectl nodewright package rerun — replaced the terminal Job
4 stage timeout pass attempt killed at ~21s not 600s, pod Failed/DeadlineExceeded in place with the SIGTERM readable; raising stageTimeout to 10m cleared the old Job and the new one carried 600
5 multiple CRs on one node pass priority 100 held the node exclusively for 90s, then priority 200 — no tick with unfinished Jobs from both CRs; separate nodeState_ keys
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 #443, third consecutive reproduction — details below
7b CR deletion + full wipe pass finalizer ran an uninstall Job during deletion; stays entry preserved as docs/uninstall.md specifies; a CR whose only package is uninstall.enabled: true left zero nodewright.nvidia.com/* annotations
8 TTL by outcome pass succeeded ttl=60 collected first, failed ttl=180 still present; node state unchanged by collection; replacement Job after the failure TTL; sub-minute TTL refused at startup (job ttl succeeded must be at least 1 minute)
9 kubelet-refused attempts pass OutOfcpu with no container statuses, failed climbed to 4, node state stayed in_progress and never erroring; budget→sweep→recreate self-heal observed
10 pause / disable pass pause set spec.suspend: true and deleted the running pod; resume started a fresh one; disable-added-while-pause-removed held the Job suspended for 64s (#422 behaviour)
11 config update mid-flight pass in-flight config Job invalidated ~6s after the edit (new UID and new resource-id); the ConfigMap itself is not swapped until the stage completes on all nodes, then the stage re-ran and ended colour=red
12 two nodes + interruption budget pass never more than 1 node cordoned across the whole rollout; one interrupt Job per node
13 node deleted mid-run pass orphaned Job foreground-deleted 5s after the node object went away, no replacement; surviving node completed and the CR reached complete
14 disruption casualty pass evicted attempt (eviction subresource, so DisruptionTarget is set) left status.failed empty — no retry budget spent — and never erroring
15 upgrade → downgrade pass upgrade ran the upgrade stage and removed the superseded entry; downgrade keeps both entries, which docs/uninstall.md states is intentional for uninstall.enabled: false
16 unpullable image pass erroring at t+62s with a 60s stageTimeout — bounded, not indefinite (the #306 baseline)

Nothing regressed under the merge: every case landed the same way as the 3e3886ea run.

New issue found and not fixed

The operator never explains a Job it deletes — no log line, no event. deleteJobForeground
(operator/internal/controller/job_controller.go:752) logs nothing at any level and records no
event, so all three delete paths are silent to an operator:

  • orphaned-node sweep (case 13 — the Job was simply gone 5s later)
  • stale-spec / spec-edit clear of a terminal Job (cases 3 and 4)
  • config-invalidation of an in-flight Job (case 11)

The asymmetry is what makes it confusing: Job creation and stage transitions are well covered
(~296 events this run — NodeWright/State, NodeWright/Apply, Node/State, Node/Apply, plus
Job/SuccessfulCreate from the Job controller). Only deletion is unexplained, so on pager duty a
vanished Job is indistinguishable from a TTL collection or a stray kubectl delete. Across the
whole ~70-minute run the operator log contained 10 distinct messages, all controller-runtime
startup plus one benign reconcile error.

Suggested fix: one logger.Info in deleteJobForeground carrying the job name, node and a
caller-supplied reason (orphaned-node, stale-spec, config-update, timed-out-cleared).
Diagnosability only — no lifecycle impact — so P2, in the same family as #443 and #449.

Already-open findings, unchanged

  • #443 (case 7a) — a successful uninstall
    Job and its pod are deleted immediately, so uninstall output is unrecoverable; every sibling stage
    in the same CR kept ttlSecondsAfterFinished: 3600. Entry removal, CR status and the full-wipe
    path were all correct.
  • #449last-logs was absent in cases
    4, 9 and 16. Case 9 (kubelet refuses every attempt, so there is no genuine archive to defer to)
    was the scenario where it should have populated; it did not. That is direct evidence for the
    issue's claim that the annotation never fires for package Jobs at all.

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Skyhook → NodeWright migration suite re-run on this branch — 15/16 pass

The rename-migration suite (M1–M16, docs/plans/2026-08-13-rename-migration-validation.md) was
previously run against main. Re-run here against this branch, so it doubles as the smoke test
for #305: the baseline is a pre-Jobs operator that executes packages as raw pods, and the
upgrade target is the Jobs operator.

  • Baseline: published chart v0.17.1 (pre-rename, skyhook.nvidia.com only, raw-pod execution),
    installed into the skyhook namespace.
  • Target: operator image built from 945b0061, served from a local registry; chart under test is
    this branch's chart/. Running git_sha verified from the manager log after every upgrade.
  • Clusters: 9 fresh kind clusters — the upgrade itself is the thing under test, so cases that
    cannot share a migrated cluster get their own.
  • Evidence: ~/nodewright-migration-evidence/20260813-jobs/.
# Case Result Evidence that it passed
M1 happy path migration pass NodeWright per Skyhook stamped mirrored-from; node metadata present under both prefixes (nodeState_/status_/version_, the status_ label, and all four NotReady/Erroring conditions); package ConfigMap gained the nodewright label keeping the legacy one; selectors preserved as the legacy-prefixed label; no package re-ran — zero Jobs created
M2 legacy CRs read-only pass spec edit and pause/disable annotation both Forbidden with a message naming the NodeWright; unchanged re-apply accepted (GitOps no-op); finalizer edit and delete accepted; deprecation warning on every accepted write
M3 operate the NodeWright pass pause/resume/disable/enable all land on the NodeWright; the legacy object's annotations stay empty throughout
M4 deletion ordering + finalizer pass migrated legacy delete completed in 1s with no manual finalizer removal, NodeWright survived and kept its state. Negative half retested properly: with the operator scaled to 0 a pre-upgrade legacy object hangs in Terminating holding skyhook.nvidia.com/skyhook, and completes 26s after scale-up
M5 DeploymentPolicy + delete ordering pass policy mirrored with the stamp; deleting it while referenced → still referenced by 2 Skyhook(s): [m5-one m5-two]; allowed once the Skyhooks went first; migrated NodeWrights still carry deploymentPolicy: m5-policy
M6 migration hold (in-flight) pass held for 4½ minutes with zero Jobs while a legacy SLEEP_LEN: 600 package ran, requeueing every ~20s with inFlightSkyhooks: [m6-inflight]; released within 18s of deleting the in-flight legacy object
M7 paused/disabled migrate in state pass no hold triggered; all three mirrored, paused/disabled state carried onto the NodeWright, zero Jobs after upgrade; resuming the NodeWright rolled it out normally while the disabled one stayed idle
M8 user-managed NodeWright wins pass pre-created NodeWright kept its own spec and selector, gained no stamp, and the operator logged target exists but is not mirror-owned; backing off
M9 mirror never deletes pass NodeWright survived deletion of its legacy source; re-creating the source produced no duplicate and backed off again
M10 legacy Skyhook created after upgrade pass accepted with the deprecation warning, mirrored, no hold — and rolled out as Jobs (6 Jobs incl. one merged interrupt Job), i.e. a legacy-API CR is executed by the new model end to end
M11 rollback inside the window fail new issue below. Content passes once unwedged: Skyhook complete, no package re-runs, legacy node state byte-identical to the pre-upgrade snapshot, forward re-upgrade migrates cleanly again
M12 prune after the delay pass with legacyCleanupDelay=2m: legacy keys + legacy-migrated-at present immediately after upgrade, still present through 3 minutes of sampling, then all skyhook.nvidia.com operator keys, the legacy label and the legacy conditions gone; nodewright side intact, zero Jobs
M13 custom skyhook.nvidia.com/* keys survive pass a pool=gpu label used as the CR's selector and an owner=team-x annotation both survived the upgrade and the prune; the migrated NodeWright still selects through the legacy-prefixed label
M14 runtime-required taint rename pass Jobs scheduled on a node carrying the legacy taint and one carrying the new key, and both taints were removed on completion; neither was rewritten in place
M15 interrupt mid-flight (outside the guide) noted-only as designed: the interrupt finished under the old operator, the hold engaged (16 cycles, ~20s), no NodeWright work, no reboot, no double-drive. The node stays cordoned while held — unchanged from the previous run
M16 existing skyhook namespace install pass operator still runs in and watches skyhook; package Jobs and ConfigMaps created there; no nodewright namespace created despite main's new default

The #305-relevant result: a Jobs operator inheriting a completed raw-pod rollout re-runs nothing
(M1, M11, M12 all show zero Jobs after upgrade), and a legacy-API CR created afterwards executes
fully through the Jobs model (M10).

New issue found and not fixed

helm rollback to the pre-rename revision wedges, leaving zero Ready operator pods. Reproduced
twice, deterministic; does not self-heal (watched 13 minutes). Rename epic rather than Jobs — but it
is the documented safety net for the whole migration, so flagging it here.

Error: release nodewright failed: resource Deployment/skyhook/nodewright-controller-manager
not ready. status: InProgress, message: Updated: 1/2 — context deadline exceeded

Neither side of the rolling update can become Ready:

Pod Image Ready Why
rollback target operator:v0.17.0 1/2 manager fails healthz — error re-reading certificate: tls: failed to find any PEM data in key input; it cannot read the webhook-cert Secret the post-rename operator wrote
outgoing ×2 this branch's image 0/1 the rollback reverted chart resources under them: deploymentpolicies.nodewright.nvidia.com is forbidden (RBAC back to skyhook-operator-*) and failed calling webhook … nodewright-webhook-service (Service renamed back)

This is the mirror image of the forward-upgrade hazard the chart already handles with the
selectorMigration pre-upgrade hook (chart/RELEASE_NOTES.md); there is no equivalent on the
rollback path.

Workaround, verified:

kubectl -n <ns> delete deploy <fullname>-controller-manager
kubectl -n <ns> delete secret webhook-cert
helm rollback nodewright <rev> -n <ns> --wait     # pass the revision explicitly

After that the pre-rename operator comes up Ready and M11's content passes in full. Note that
helm rollback without a revision targets the previous deployed revision — after a failed
attempt that is the post-rename release, not the baseline.

Verified fixed, no action

  • helm rollback deletes the NodeWright CRD, cascade-deleting every NodeWright #464 (helm rollback deleted the NodeWright CRD and cascade-deleted every NodeWright) — the
    helm.sh/resource-policy: keep fix is in this branch and holds: both nodewright CRDs and the
    NodeWright survived every rollback attempt above.
  • The previous run's M4-negative gap was a harness error, not a product one; retested correctly and
    it passes.

Everything else that turned up was already known and unchanged (the metadata-ConfigMap legacy label,
disabled not surfacing in status on an already-complete CR, and M15's cordon), or checked and
dismissed — e.g. a legacy Skyhook created after the upgrade is create-once, which is by design and
the deny message points at the editable NodeWright.

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