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Docs-only. No behavior change, and no code change: the diff is 28 added lines in docs/runtime_required.md.

Supersedes the original intent of this PR. See #457 for why that turned out not to be a bug.

What this clarifies

docs/runtime_required.md said:

A node is considered "new" if it has no NodeWright annotations.

That is accurate but easy to read as "new to this NodeWright". It is not. The check is for any nodewright.nvidia.com/* annotation, so once any NodeWright has touched a node, auto-taint never treats it as new again.

Two consequences were undocumented:

  • A different NodeWright does not make a node new again. If NodeWright A has run on a node and runtime-required NodeWright B later selects it for the first time, B does not auto-taint it.
  • kubectl nodewright reset does not re-gate a node. Reset clears package state so packages re-run, but the node keeps its other annotations, including the node-scoped autoTaint_<taintKey> marker. So the packages re-run without the runtime-required taint.

The second is the one worth writing down: reset is not a way to re-gate a node, and reading the old wording as per-NodeWright leads you to assume it is.

What was added

  • A "New" means never touched, and it is one-way subsection covering both consequences
  • The explicit sequence for re-applying the taint when that is what you actually want (kubectl taint then reset)
  • How to return a node to genuinely new, framed as a deliberate human action
  • A pointer back to pre-tainting at provisioning as the reliable gate, since autoTaintNewNodes gates nodes arriving in the cluster and is not a general re-gating mechanism

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The runtime-required documentation now states that existing NodeWright annotations prevent automatic re-tainting. It covers behavior after another NodeWright processes a node and after kubectl nodewright reset. It adds commands for manual taint reapplication and annotation removal. It also limits the documented purpose of auto-tainting to initial node gating.

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Mergeability Score: 🟡 Moderate · up to 79f4b

The recovery documentation can make package pods unschedulable under custom taint configuration and can unintentionally reset multiple nodes or remove state owned by other NodeWrights; these instructions should be corrected before merging. A required source-file license header also remains unresolved.

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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning The docs-only change updates one acceptance criterion but does not implement reset re-tainting, remove the dead constant, or add unit coverage [#457]. Implement and test reset-then-retaint behavior, address the dead constant, and retain the documentation update for the selected semantics [#457].
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Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The documentation changes are explicitly required by the linked issue and remain within the pull request scope [#457].
Description check ✅ Passed The description clearly explains the documentation-only changes and the clarified auto-taint semantics.
Title check ✅ Passed The title accurately and concisely describes the documentation change about autoTaintNewNodes semantics.
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operator/internal/wrapper/mock/SkyhookNode.go (1)

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Restore the Apache-2.0 SPDX license header.

The change removes the required header from this Go source file. Restore it with make license-fmt or the component make fmt target. Do not add it manually.

As per coding guidelines, “Every source file must have an Apache-2.0 SPDX license header; use the repository license-formatting tools rather than copying headers manually.”

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Inline comments:
In `@operator/internal/controller/cluster_state_v2_test.go`:
- Around line 3141-3168: Add a getAutoTaintNodes test covering two NodeWrights
selecting the same node: configure the first sorted NodeWright with matching
nodeState_ state and the second without state, then assert exactly one
auto-taint candidate. Use the existing BuildState, autoTaintSkyhook, and
nodeWithAnnotations helpers to exercise the moved seen assignment and preserve
cross-NodeWright selection behavior.

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In `@operator/internal/wrapper/mock/SkyhookNode.go`:
- Line 1: Restore the Apache-2.0 SPDX license header in the generated
SkyhookNode mock by running the repository’s license-formatting target, such as
make license-fmt or the component make fmt; do not add the header manually.
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…nd is one-way

"A node is considered new if it has no NodeWright annotations" is precise but easy
to read as "new to this NodeWright". It is not: the check is for any
nodewright.nvidia.com/* annotation, so once any NodeWright has touched a node,
auto-taint never treats it as new again.

Two consequences were undocumented and surprise people:

- a different NodeWright selecting the node for the first time does not auto-taint
  it, because the node is not new
- `kubectl nodewright reset` does not re-gate a node: it clears package state so
  packages re-run, but the node keeps its other annotations (including the
  node-scoped autoTaint_ marker), so the packages re-run untainted

Document both, show how to re-apply the taint explicitly when that is what you
want, and state that returning a node to "new" is a deliberate human action.
Reinforce that pre-tainting at provisioning is the reliable gate; autoTaintNewNodes
gates nodes arriving in the cluster and is not a general re-gating mechanism.

No behavior change.

Refs #457
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@lockwobr lockwobr changed the title fix(operator): re-taint reset nodes by scoping the auto-taint "new" check per NodeWright docs(operator): clarify that autoTaintNewNodes means never-touched, and is one-way Aug 13, 2026
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Inline comments:
In `@docs/runtime_required.md`:
- Around line 83-90: Update the runtime-required recovery commands to use the
configured runtimeRequiredTaint value rather than a hard-coded taint, and scope
reset to the selected node with kubectl nodewright node reset <node>
--nodewright <nodewright-name> --confirm. Ensure cleanup removes only the
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annotations, since other NodeWrights may own them.

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