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feat(nvca): extend control-plane validator with HA checks, DaemonSet n2n, and route CR type check - #781

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Adds a control-plane role to the cluster-validator. With
VALIDATOR_ROLE=control-plane it checks what a self-managed NVCF control plane
needs: a default StorageClass, the Gateway API and Envoy Gateway, the NVCF
load balancer, pod-network reachability between nodes, and HA readiness of the
control-plane Deployments and quorum StatefulSets. The compute-plane role keeps
the existing GPU and SMB checks.

Additional Details

Role switch

VALIDATOR_ROLE selects the check set. An unrecognized value falls back to
compute-plane with a warning, and the chart schema only accepts
control-plane, compute-plane or empty. The validator prints a
Validator role: <role> line so a launcher can tell which set ran.

Run() takes a dynamic client, used to read the NVCF routes' parentRefs and
the Gateways. Gateway API discovery and Gateway ownership are resolved once per
run and shared by the LoadBalancer and Tier-1 checks, so the two rows judge the
same Gateways.

An unobserved critical check (an RBAC denial, an apiserver error) is reported
as UNKNOWN and blocks the verdict, rather than passing. VALIDATOR_POST_INSTALL
tells the validator the control plane is installed, which turns "nothing found"
into a failure instead of a pre-install pass.

Control-plane checks

  • Default StorageClass (critical): one default class must exist; several
    defaults warn.
  • Gateway API CRDs (critical): gatewayclasses and gateways, plus the route
    types the stack applies (v1 httproutes and grpcroutes, v1alpha2 tcproutes,
    v1beta1 referencegrants).
  • Envoy Gateway (non-critical): the controller has Ready pods. Absent before
    install.
  • Gateway route CR types (non-critical): optional route types such as
    udproutes, needed only when the routes that use them are enabled.
  • External load balancer (non-critical): every NVCF Gateway's proxy Service
    exposed as a LoadBalancer has an address. Other teams' Gateways are ignored.
  • Node-to-node overlay (critical): see below.
  • Tier-1 Deployments and Tier-2 StatefulSets (critical): see below.

Which Gateways are NVCF's

The NVCF Gateways come from NVCF_GATEWAY_NAMES (namespace/name entries; the
launcher passes the stack's Gateways) or, when unset, from the parentRefs of
routes rendered by the nvcf-gateway-routes chart. Envoy proxies are attributed
by their owning-gateway labels, or by GatewayClass for a merged-gateways proxy.
A proxy whose owner cannot be decided is still assessed for readiness: only one
that is not Ready leaves the row UNKNOWN. After install, every NVCF Gateway
must have a proxy.

Node-to-node probe

A DaemonSet in a per-run namespace puts a server pod on every node; it
tolerates every taint. A pod is expected on each Ready, uncordoned node, and a
checker pod on one of them connects to the others.

  • A pod scheduled on a node that never gets a pod IP fails the check (a CNI
    fault).
  • A pod the probe itself could not use (still pulling its image, as its events
    show; an image or container error; unschedulable for capacity; rejected by
    the kubelet) is a coverage gap: the remaining nodes are still probed and the
    gap is a warning.
  • Fewer than two usable nodes is UNKNOWN; exactly one Ready node is not
    applicable, with a warning.
  • The checker's exit code separates a failed connection from a probe image
    without nc. The image can be set with NVCF_N2N_PROBE_IMAGE.

The namespace, DaemonSet and checker are deleted at the end of the run, each
delete with its own time budget. A later run's sweep removes probe namespaces
left by a killed run once they are 10 minutes old.

HA readiness

  • Tier-1 Deployments: every Deployment in the control-plane namespaces must be
    fully Ready. A rollout that is moving (the controller reports a rollout step,
    not a ReplicaFailure) and at or above its readiness floor passes with a
    warning. A Deployment scaled to zero fails, except a third-party one in a
    shared namespace such as cert-manager, which warns.
  • Tier-2 StatefulSets: odd-sized StatefulSets of three or more must have every
    pod Ready on distinct nodes. The stack's quorum components (NATS, OpenBao,
    Cassandra, by name in their namespaces) are also judged below three
    replicas, which fails under highAvailability.mode preferred or enforced
    (NVCF_HA_MODE) and is expected under none. A RollingUpdate with one pod
    down passes with a warning only while that pod can still come up, and the
    placement check still runs.

tier1_deployments and tier2_statefulsets are added to the summary check
keys and pre-initialized in the agent's metrics.

Chart

  • clusterValidator.role, haMode, gatewayNames, openBaoNamespace,
    envoyGatewayNamespace, nodeToNodeProbeImage and tolerations are
    forwarded to the CronJob, in both chart copies.
  • The operator init container always runs the compute-plane set. Under the
    control-plane role it does not write the summary, and a one-shot Job runs the
    CronJob's spec at each install and upgrade so the first summary does not wait
    for the schedule.
  • The validator ClusterRole adds statefulsets, daemonset create/delete, the
    Gateway API route kinds and gateways, and events list.

For the Reviewer

  • internal/clustervalidator/checks.go: the control-plane checks. Tier-1 and
    Tier-2 are split into a scan, a per-object assessment and a verdict
    (tier1Scan, tier2Scan). gatewayOwnership holds the Gateway resolution.
  • internal/clustervalidator/validator.go: Run() and the role switch;
    printSummary adds the new rows.
  • internal/clustervalidator/enforcement.go: bounded, retried pod waits shared
    with the node-to-node probe.
  • deployments/nvca-operator and deploy/helm/nvca-operator: the chart changes
    above; scripts/lint_helm.sh asserts them for both copies.
  • internal/metrics/METRICS.md: how absent control-plane checks and the
    never-ran case should be alerted on.

For QA

Unit tests cover each behavior, and the validator packages pass
golangci-lint v2.3.0 with the subtree config. An earlier revision was run on
a k3d cluster (1 server, 5 agents, full NVCF stack) with
VALIDATOR_ROLE=control-plane, where every control-plane check passed. The
later review rounds were not re-run on a live cluster. QA is useful for the
control-plane role on a multi-node HA install.

The launcher side (the CLI check command) is in #782.

Issues

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Checklist

  • I am familiar with the Contributing Guidelines.
  • I have signed off my commits for Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) compliance.
  • New or existing tests cover these changes.
  • The documentation is up to date with these changes.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Cluster validation supports compute-plane and control-plane checks for gateways, storage, connectivity, workloads, and rollout status.
    • Results distinguish failures from checks that could not be observed, with readiness verdicts and optional summary publication.
    • Control-plane validation runs automatically when its configuration changes. Settings cover roles, gateways, storage, external components, probe images, and tolerations.
    • Validator metrics can be enabled or disabled, with expanded readiness and failure reporting.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Kubernetes checks and probes use bounded retries and respect cancellation, reducing misleading results during API or network issues.
    • Validator cleanup handles leftover probe resources and summaries.
  • Documentation

    • Expanded configuration, execution, metrics, and self-managed installation guidance.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The validator adds control-plane checks, bounded Kubernetes observations, and role-specific readiness summaries. Helm configures validator Jobs and permissions. The operator starts Jobs when validator specs change, cleans up validator resources, and passes the enabled setting to agent metrics.

Changes

Role-aware cluster validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Bounded observations and probe execution
src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/clustervalidator/observe.go, enforcement.go, connectivity.go, config.go, src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/util/k8serr/*
Kubernetes reads and network probes use bounded contexts and retry handling. Probe setup failures are reported separately from observed connectivity results.
Role-specific checks and readiness reporting
src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/clustervalidator/checks.go, suite.go, validator.go, summary.go, src/compute-plane-services/nvca/cmd/cluster-validator/*, src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/clustervalidator/*_test.go
The validator runs role-specific checks, retries critical outcomes, distinguishes unknown and unassessed results from observed failures, and maps readiness and publication outcomes to exit codes.

Helm configuration and stack-derived values

Layer / File(s) Summary
Validator Job configuration and permissions
deploy/helm/nvca-operator/nvca-operator/templates/*, values.yaml, values.schema.json, deploy/helm/nvca-operator/tests/cluster_validator_test.sh
Helm renders validator CronJob and init-container settings, validates role-specific values, and configures role-scoped Kubernetes permissions. The chart test checks rendered settings, RBAC, and schema behavior.
Stack-derived validator settings
deploy/helm/nvca-operator/scripts/render_values_from_stack_env.sh, deploy/helm/nvca-operator/tests/render_values_from_stack_env_test.sh, ai-tooling/dev/skills/nvca-*
The stack renderer writes Gateway names, StorageClass, external components, and probe-image values. Tests cover overrides, repeated renders, and registry-based image selection.

Operator execution and metrics

Layer / File(s) Summary
Operator-triggered runs and cleanup
src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/operator/reconcile/validator_initial_run.go, agent.go, rollout.go, cli.go, nvcaagent_reconcile.go
The operator watches validator CronJob specs and creates an owned Job when the newest owned run does not match the current spec. It also sweeps probe namespaces, removes eligible validator summaries, and propagates enablement settings.
Conditional metrics and test wiring
src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/metrics/*, src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/validator_summary_reconciler.go, deploy/helm/nvca-operator/Makefile, .github/workflows/build-test.yml, src/compute-plane-services/nvca/scripts/lint_helm.sh
Agent metric baselines and summary reconciliation follow validator enablement. Documentation, build declarations, and CI scripts cover validator behavior and chart integration.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~100 minutes

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Operator as NVCAOperator
  participant CronJob as ValidatorCronJob
  participant JobsAPI as KubernetesJobsAPI
  participant ValidatorJob as ClusterValidator
  participant Summary as SummaryConfigMap
  Operator->>CronJob: Read current validator spec
  Operator->>JobsAPI: Inspect owned Jobs and active runs
  Operator->>JobsAPI: Create owned Job for changed spec
  ValidatorJob->>Summary: Publish validation summary
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Two documentation inaccuracies and one possible gap in the control-plane readiness check are still open. None is established as a serious failure. Resolve them, especially the Tier-1 Deployment coverage, before or shortly after merge.

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src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/clustervalidator/checks.go (3)

876-877: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Pin the Gateway API install URL to a version.

The recommendation points at releases/latest/download/standard-install.yaml. latest moves. An operator who follows this text months from now can install a Gateway API version that differs from the one the validator expects, which reproduces the failure the recommendation was meant to resolve. Reference the minimum supported release tag instead.

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/clustervalidator/checks.go` around
lines 876 - 877, Update the Gateway API installation recommendation in the
validator checks to replace the moving releases/latest URL with the minimum
supported Gateway API release tag, preserving the standard-install.yaml asset
path.

936-949: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Consider the Ready condition instead of the Running phase.

Status.Phase == corev1.PodRunning is true for a pod whose container is restarting or failing its readiness probe. The check reports "Installed and Running" for a gateway controller that serves no traffic. Counting pods whose PodReady condition is True gives an accurate signal. The row is non-critical, so this affects the operator's diagnosis rather than the verdict.

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/clustervalidator/checks.go` around
lines 936 - 949, The pod health count in the gateway validation check should use
each pod’s Ready condition being True instead of Status.Phase ==
corev1.PodRunning. Update the running-count loop near EnvoyGatewayOK to count
ready pods while preserving the existing logging, no-pods message, and
non-critical verdict behavior.

1116-1117: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚖️ Poor tradeoff

Node selection takes the first two schedulable nodes.

schedulable[0] and schedulable[1] follow API list order. On a multi-zone cluster those two nodes are frequently in the same zone, so the probe passes while cross-zone overlay traffic is broken. The check reports "Node-to-Node Communication: Verified" for a partially broken overlay.

Selecting two nodes with different topology.kubernetes.io/zone labels when such a pair exists would make the single probe far more informative. Record the chosen pair in the success message so the operator knows what was actually tested.

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/clustervalidator/checks.go` around
lines 1116 - 1117, Update the node selection around nodeA and nodeB so it
prefers a pair from different topology.kubernetes.io/zone labels when available,
while retaining the existing first-two schedulable nodes as a fallback. Include
the selected node names in the successful “Node-to-Node Communication: Verified”
message so the tested pair is explicit.
src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/clustervalidator/checks_controlplane_test.go (5)

270-278: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the init function; it does nothing and its comment is incorrect.

The function builds a slice literal and discards it. Constructing runtime.Object values does not register anything with the fake client's object tracker. fake.NewSimpleClientset resolves types through the generated scheme in k8s.io/client-go/kubernetes/fake, which registers the built-in types in its own package initialization. The tests above already pass storagev1.StorageClass, corev1.Namespace, corev1.Pod, and corev1.Service values to NewSimpleClientset and they work for that reason.

The function also does not keep any import alive: storagev1, corev1, and runtime are each referenced by the tests directly.

The comment states a requirement that does not exist. A future maintainer may copy this pattern into new test files.

🧹 Proposed removal
-
-// init is required to register types with the fake client's object tracker.
-func init() {
-	_ = []runtime.Object{
-		&storagev1.StorageClass{},
-		&corev1.Namespace{},
-		&corev1.Pod{},
-		&corev1.Service{},
-	}
-}
🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In
`@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/clustervalidator/checks_controlplane_test.go`
around lines 270 - 278, Remove the no-op init function and its misleading
comment from the test file. Leave the existing storagev1, corev1, and runtime
imports unchanged where they are still referenced by the tests and
NewSimpleClientset calls.

37-89: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Consolidate the StorageClass cases into a table-driven test.

The four functions share one shape: seed StorageClasses, run checkStorageClass, assert the resulting bool and the recommendations. The repository guideline asks for table-driven tests when several scenarios differ only in inputs and expectations.

The table also makes the missing branch visible: no test covers the List error path. That path is the subject of the checks.go Line 824-830 comment, so a case there would pin the corrected behavior.

♻️ Proposed table-driven form
func TestCheckStorageClass(t *testing.T) {
	tests := []struct {
		name        string
		objects     []runtime.Object
		wantOK      bool
		wantRecommend bool
	}{
		{
			name: "default annotation present",
			objects: []runtime.Object{&storagev1.StorageClass{ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{
				Name:        "standard",
				Annotations: map[string]string{"storageclass.kubernetes.io/is-default-class": "true"},
			}}},
			wantOK: true,
		},
		{
			name: "beta annotation accepted",
			objects: []runtime.Object{&storagev1.StorageClass{ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{
				Name:        "local-path",
				Annotations: map[string]string{"storageclass.beta.kubernetes.io/is-default-class": "true"},
			}}},
			wantOK: true,
		},
		{
			name: "class present but not default",
			objects: []runtime.Object{&storagev1.StorageClass{
				ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{Name: "no-annotation-class"},
			}},
			wantOK: false, wantRecommend: true,
		},
		{
			name:   "no storage classes",
			wantOK: false, wantRecommend: true,
		},
	}
	for _, tt := range tests {
		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
			client := fake.NewSimpleClientset(tt.objects...)
			state := &ValidationState{Log: testLog()}
			checkStorageClass(context.Background(), client, state)

			require.NotNil(t, state.DefaultStorageClassOK)
			assert.Equal(t, tt.wantOK, *state.DefaultStorageClassOK)
			assert.Equal(t, tt.wantRecommend, len(state.Recommendations) > 0)
		})
	}
}

As per coding guidelines: "use table-driven tests for multiple scenarios".

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In
`@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/clustervalidator/checks_controlplane_test.go`
around lines 37 - 89, Consolidate the four StorageClass tests into a
table-driven TestCheckStorageClass using shared setup and assertions, preserving
each scenario’s expected DefaultStorageClassOK and recommendation results. Add a
List-error case by configuring the fake client to return an error for
StorageClass listing, and assert the corrected behavior expected from
checkStorageClass, including its recommendation outcome.

Source: Coding guidelines


253-268: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert that the deferred cleanup deletes the probe pods.

TestCheckNodeToNode_ServerPodCreateFailure covers the create-failure path but does not verify cleanup. Pod cleanup is the fragile part of checkNodeToNode: the server pod runs an infinite nc loop and only the deferred delete removes it. A test that inspects the recorded actions would pin that contract.

Use the fake clientset action log after a run where the server pod is created but never becomes ready.

💚 Proposed additional test
func TestCheckNodeToNode_DeletesProbePodsOnFailure(t *testing.T) {
	client := fake.NewSimpleClientset(
		makeNode("node-1", true, 0),
		makeNode("node-2", true, 0),
	)
	// Creates succeed; the server pod never becomes Ready, so the check
	// bails out after waitForPodReady and the deferred cleanup must run.
	state := &ValidationState{Log: testLog()}
	checkNodeToNode(context.Background(), client, state)

	var deleted []string
	for _, a := range client.Actions() {
		if d, ok := a.(ktesting.DeleteAction); ok && d.GetResource().Resource == "pods" {
			deleted = append(deleted, d.GetName())
		}
	}
	assert.NotEmpty(t, deleted, "the deferred cleanup must delete the probe pods")
}

Confirm the nodeToNodePodTimeout of 90 s does not make this test slow; if waitForPodReady polls for the full timeout, inject a shorter duration or stub the wait helper as the file already does for probes elsewhere.

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In
`@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/clustervalidator/checks_controlplane_test.go`
around lines 253 - 268, Add a cleanup-focused test near
TestCheckNodeToNode_ServerPodCreateFailure that lets probe pod creation succeed
while pods remain unready, then runs checkNodeToNode and inspects
client.Actions() for pod DeleteAction entries. Assert at least one probe pod is
deleted, and use the file’s existing timeout or waitForPodReady test seam to
keep the test from waiting the full nodeToNodePodTimeout.

144-151: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add dynamic fake-client coverage for checkGatewayRoutes.

Test the list-error, empty-list, and populated-list branches, including the HTTPRoute list kind and all-namespaces Namespace("") call. Add the dynamic fake dependency to the clustervalidator_test Bazel target.

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In
`@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/clustervalidator/checks_controlplane_test.go`
around lines 144 - 151, Extend TestCheckGatewayRoutes coverage with a dynamic
fake client for list-error, empty-list, and populated-list cases, verifying
HTTPRoute listing uses the HTTPRoute kind and Namespace(""). Add the required
dynamic fake dependency to the clustervalidator_test Bazel target.

91-106: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Cover the populated FakeDiscovery paths.

Add tests for the all-resources-present and partial-resource cases. Set Resources on the embedded testing.Fake and assert GatewayAPICRDsOK for both outcomes. Add client-go/discovery/fake to BUILD.bazel.

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In
`@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/clustervalidator/checks_controlplane_test.go`
around lines 91 - 106, Extend TestCheckGatewayAPICRDs_AbsentOnFakeClient
coverage with tests using discovery fake clients whose embedded testing.Fake
Resources contain all required Gateway API resources and only a subset,
asserting GatewayAPICRDsOK is true and false respectively. Configure Resources
on the embedded fake for each case, and add the client-go/discovery/fake
dependency to BUILD.bazel.
src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/clustervalidator/validator_test.go (1)

166-184: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a NodeToNodeOK case.

NodeToNodeOK is the second critical control-plane row (validator.go Line 296-299), and no subtest sets it. A change that flips that row to non-critical would pass this suite. The DefaultStorageClassOK case already establishes the pattern.

💚 Proposed additional subtest
	t.Run("node-to-node failure blocks readiness", func(t *testing.T) {
		fail := false
		ok := true
		state := &ValidationState{
			Log:                      testLog(),
			Role:                     RoleControlPlane,
			ControlPlaneHealthy:      true,
			NodesAllReady:            true,
			WebhooksSupported:        true,
			NetworkPoliciesSupported: true,
			DefaultStorageClassOK:    &ok,
			GatewayAPICRDsOK:         &ok,
			NodeToNodeOK:             &fail,
			K8sVersion:               "v1.30.0",
			TotalNodes:               "2",
		}
		err := printSummary(state)
		assert.Error(t, err, "failed node-to-node connectivity must block control-plane readiness")
	})
🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/clustervalidator/validator_test.go`
around lines 166 - 184, Add a `NodeToNodeOK` failure subtest alongside the
existing control-plane readiness cases, following the `DefaultStorageClassOK`
pattern: keep other critical checks healthy, set `NodeToNodeOK` to false, call
`printSummary`, and assert that it returns an error.
src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/clustervalidator/validator.go (1)

121-131: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Consider a parameter struct for Run.

Run now takes four string parameters, one bool, and two clients. configNamespace, configName, summaryNamespace, and role are all string, so a transposed argument compiles and fails only at runtime. A small RunOptions struct would make each call site self-documenting and prevent silent transposition when the next option is added.

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around lines 121 - 131, Introduce a RunOptions struct containing
configNamespace, configName, summaryNamespace, emitMetrics, and role, then
update Run to accept this options value alongside the context and clients.
Update every Run call site to populate fields by name and adjust the
implementation to read from the options struct, preserving existing validation
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In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/cmd/cluster-validator/main.go`:
- Around line 86-108: Update parseRole and its caller to distinguish an unset
VALIDATOR_ROLE from a non-empty unrecognized value, preserving the compute-plane
default for both but logging a warning for the latter. Use the existing logging
mechanism to identify the rejected value, and update the related test
expectations so inputs such as “control_plane” verify the warning behavior.
- Around line 52-56: Declare dynClient as dynamic.Interface before calling
dynamic.NewForConfig, and assign the constructed client only on successful
creation. Preserve the existing warning and nil assignment on failure so
checkGatewayRoutes receives a genuinely nil interface and its guard prevents
List from being called.
- Around line 43-46: Update the Kubernetes client initialization around
internalutil.NewK8sClient so the dynamic client is declared as a
dynamic.Interface and assigned only when client creation succeeds. Preserve the
existing error handling, and ensure the value passed to downstream validation
cannot be a typed-nil dynamic client when initialization fails.

In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/clustervalidator/checks.go`:
- Around line 824-830: Update the StorageClasses().List error handling at
src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/clustervalidator/checks.go#L824-L830 to
leave DefaultStorageClassOK nil and append a warning that the default
StorageClass status is unknown, omitting the critical row instead of marking it
failed. At
src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/clustervalidator/checks.go#L1092-L1098,
update the Nodes().List error handling to leave NodeToNodeOK nil and append a
warning that overlay connectivity is unverified, following the three-state
behavior used by checkControlPlaneHealth and rendered by printSummary.
- Around line 1230-1235: Run gofmt on the composite literal containing the
client container in the clustervalidator checks code, ensuring the contiguous
Name, Image, Command, and Resources fields align to the longest key. Do not
change their values or behavior.
- Around line 1191-1239: Update buildNodeToNodeServerPod and
buildNodeToNodeClientPod so both probe containers use a restricted-compliant
security context: run as non-root, disallow privilege escalation, drop all
capabilities, and use RuntimeDefault seccomp while retaining the non-privileged
port. Also change the managed-by label from nvcf-cli to the cluster-validator
identity used for these pods, consistently in both builders.
- Around line 1119-1129: Update the node-to-node probe setup around the
serverName/clientName generation and pod builders to replace the wrapping
UnixNano suffix with a collision-resistant suffix using
k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/rand, and add the matching Bazel dependency. Set
ActiveDeadlineSeconds on both probe pods so the API server terminates them if
deferred cleanup never runs; preserve the existing cleanup behavior and pod
naming structure.

In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/clustervalidator/validator_test.go`:
- Around line 101-130: Replace the non-asserting
TestRun_ControlPlaneRoleSkipsGPUChecks with a test that verifies role dispatch
state: initialize ValidationState with RoleControlPlane, run the relevant
control-plane check using the existing test logger and fake client, then assert
DefaultStorageClassOK is non-nil and GPUAvailable remains false. Alternatively,
add the proposed TestRun_ControlPlaneRoleRunsControlPlaneChecks alongside the
existing test and remove the unused err assignment.

In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/clustervalidator/validator.go`:
- Around line 177-192: The control-plane validation flow currently runs the
critical checkNodeToNode probe during preflight, where pod creation may be
unauthorized. Update the Run flow and control-plane branch to skip
checkNodeToNode when emitMetrics is false, while preserving it for normal
in-cluster runs; keep the existing checkNodeToNode behavior unchanged otherwise.
- Around line 80-91: The buildSummary path must propagate all six control-plane
results—DefaultStorageClassOK, GatewayAPICRDsOK, EnvoyGatewayOK,
GatewayRoutesOK, ExternalLBOK, and NodeToNodeOK—into ValidatorSummary.Checks.
Add stable CheckKey constants, include them in AllCheckKeys and
clusterValidatorCheckKeys(), and map each pointer only when non-nil; update the
summary tests to cover these entries.

---

Nitpick comments:
In
`@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/clustervalidator/checks_controlplane_test.go`:
- Around line 270-278: Remove the no-op init function and its misleading comment
from the test file. Leave the existing storagev1, corev1, and runtime imports
unchanged where they are still referenced by the tests and NewSimpleClientset
calls.
- Around line 37-89: Consolidate the four StorageClass tests into a table-driven
TestCheckStorageClass using shared setup and assertions, preserving each
scenario’s expected DefaultStorageClassOK and recommendation results. Add a
List-error case by configuring the fake client to return an error for
StorageClass listing, and assert the corrected behavior expected from
checkStorageClass, including its recommendation outcome.
- Around line 253-268: Add a cleanup-focused test near
TestCheckNodeToNode_ServerPodCreateFailure that lets probe pod creation succeed
while pods remain unready, then runs checkNodeToNode and inspects
client.Actions() for pod DeleteAction entries. Assert at least one probe pod is
deleted, and use the file’s existing timeout or waitForPodReady test seam to
keep the test from waiting the full nodeToNodePodTimeout.
- Around line 144-151: Extend TestCheckGatewayRoutes coverage with a dynamic
fake client for list-error, empty-list, and populated-list cases, verifying
HTTPRoute listing uses the HTTPRoute kind and Namespace(""). Add the required
dynamic fake dependency to the clustervalidator_test Bazel target.
- Around line 91-106: Extend TestCheckGatewayAPICRDs_AbsentOnFakeClient coverage
with tests using discovery fake clients whose embedded testing.Fake Resources
contain all required Gateway API resources and only a subset, asserting
GatewayAPICRDsOK is true and false respectively. Configure Resources on the
embedded fake for each case, and add the client-go/discovery/fake dependency to
BUILD.bazel.

In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/clustervalidator/checks.go`:
- Around line 876-877: Update the Gateway API installation recommendation in the
validator checks to replace the moving releases/latest URL with the minimum
supported Gateway API release tag, preserving the standard-install.yaml asset
path.
- Around line 936-949: The pod health count in the gateway validation check
should use each pod’s Ready condition being True instead of Status.Phase ==
corev1.PodRunning. Update the running-count loop near EnvoyGatewayOK to count
ready pods while preserving the existing logging, no-pods message, and
non-critical verdict behavior.
- Around line 1116-1117: Update the node selection around nodeA and nodeB so it
prefers a pair from different topology.kubernetes.io/zone labels when available,
while retaining the existing first-two schedulable nodes as a fallback. Include
the selected node names in the successful “Node-to-Node Communication: Verified”
message so the tested pair is explicit.

In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/clustervalidator/validator_test.go`:
- Around line 166-184: Add a `NodeToNodeOK` failure subtest alongside the
existing control-plane readiness cases, following the `DefaultStorageClassOK`
pattern: keep other critical checks healthy, set `NodeToNodeOK` to false, call
`printSummary`, and assert that it returns an error.

In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/clustervalidator/validator.go`:
- Around line 121-131: Introduce a RunOptions struct containing configNamespace,
configName, summaryNamespace, emitMetrics, and role, then update Run to accept
this options value alongside the context and clients. Update every Run call site
to populate fields by name and adjust the implementation to read from the
options struct, preserving existing validation behavior.
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In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/clustervalidator/checks.go`:
- Around line 1199-1207: The node-to-node probe security context lacks an
explicit nonzero user, causing BusyBox containers to be rejected with
RunAsNonRoot. Update nodeToNodeSecurityContext to set RunAsUser to a nonzero
UID, and update both node-to-node pod builders to assert the resulting RunAsUser
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- Line 1205: Update the inline comment for runAsUser to replace the non-ASCII em
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…cks, route CR check

- Replace two-node pinning in checkNodeToNode with a DaemonSet approach:
  a server pod is scheduled on every schedulable node and a checker pod
  on node[0] verifies reachability to all cross-node server IPs. This
  catches per-node CNI issues that the two-node probe missed.

- Remove the emitMetrics gate on checkNodeToNode. The CLI RBAC bootstrap
  (Req 3) grants the validator SA DaemonSet create/delete before Job
  submission so no separate permission gate is needed.

- Replace checkGatewayRoutes dynamic-client list with a discovery API
  check: verifies httproute, tcproute, grpcroute, udproute CR types are
  registered across all gateway.networking.k8s.io versions. No dependency
  on actual route object names or counts.

- Remove dynClient dynamic.Interface parameter from Run() and main.go
  since no check requires it after the routes check was reworked.

- Add checkTier1Deployments: lists all Deployments in control-plane
  namespaces and fails if any have readyReplicas < spec.replicas.

- Add checkTier2StatefulSets: lists StatefulSets with spec.replicas==3
  and fails if readyReplicas < 3 or any two pods share a node. Covers
  NATS, OpenBao, Cassandra without hardcoding names.

- Add CheckKeyTier1Deployments and CheckKeyTier2StatefulSets to
  summary.go and metrics.go so the gauges appear pre-zeroed on the
  first Prometheus scrape.

Closes #583
Kubernetes rejects DaemonSets with activeDeadlineSeconds in the pod
template spec — it is only valid on Pods and Jobs. Cleanup is handled
by the deferred DaemonSet delete in checkNodeToNode.
Add sweepOrphanN2NDaemonSets to delete nvcf-n2n-server-* DaemonSets
older than 10 minutes at the start of every validator run. DaemonSets
do not support activeDeadlineSeconds so a SIGKILL before defer fires
leaves server pods running on every node indefinitely. The 10-minute TTL
avoids racing with concurrent runs (checker timeout is 90s).

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1155-1204: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Use the DaemonSet's schedulable-node count as the readiness target.

schedulable includes nodes with untolerated NoSchedule taints, but the DaemonSet has no tolerations. waitForDaemonSetPods therefore waits for pods that cannot be scheduled and sets NodeToNodeOK=false. Use DaemonSet.Status.DesiredNumberScheduled, select checkerNode from the Running server pods, and add a regression test for a tainted node.

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In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/clustervalidator/checks.go` around
lines 1155 - 1204, Update the Node-to-Node validation flow around
waitForDaemonSetPods to use the created DaemonSet’s
Status.DesiredNumberScheduled as the readiness target, rather than
len(schedulable), so untolerated tainted nodes are excluded. After readiness,
select checkerNode from a Running server pod before continuing the check. Add a
regression test covering a schedulable list containing a tainted node and verify
NodeToNodeOK remains correct.
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src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/clustervalidator/validator.go (1)

160-160: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Remove one of the two orphan DaemonSet sweeps.

checkNodeToNode already calls sweepOrphanN2NDaemonSets (checks.go Line 1146). This call repeats the same list request for every run, including compute-plane runs that never create the probe DaemonSet. Keep the sweep in checkNodeToNode only, or keep it here only and remove it from checkNodeToNode. Also note that this call site duplicates the 10-minute TTL literal; move it to a named constant next to orphanNamespaceTTL.

Proposed fix
 	sweepOrphanTestNamespaces(ctx, log, client, orphanNamespaceTTL)
-	sweepOrphanN2NDaemonSets(ctx, log, client, 10*time.Minute)
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In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/clustervalidator/validator.go` at
line 160, Remove the duplicate sweep invocation from the validator flow, keeping
sweepOrphanN2NDaemonSets in checkNodeToNode only. Define a named constant for
the 10-minute orphan DaemonSet TTL alongside orphanNamespaceTTL and reuse it at
the retained call site.
src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/clustervalidator/checks.go (2)

1099-1104: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Log the DaemonSet list error in the sweep.

The condition err != nil || len(dsList.Items) == 0 discards the list error. An RBAC gap or an API failure then produces no signal, and orphan probe DaemonSets accumulate silently. Log a warning for the error case before returning.

As per coding guidelines: "all errors must be handled explicitly".

Proposed fix
-	if err != nil || len(dsList.Items) == 0 {
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Warnf("N2N orphan sweep: failed to list DaemonSets in %s: %v", nodeToNodeNamespace, err)
+		return
+	}
+	if len(dsList.Items) == 0 {
 		return
 	}
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In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/clustervalidator/checks.go` around
lines 1099 - 1104, Update the DaemonSet listing logic in the sweep around
AppsV1().DaemonSets(...).List to handle err explicitly: when the list call
fails, log a warning containing the error details, then return; retain the
existing empty-list return behavior separately.

Source: Coding guidelines


1257-1282: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Gate on container readiness and shorten the signature line.

Two points:

  1. The loop accepts a pod when Status.Phase == PodRunning and PodIP != "". The nc listener may not accept connections at that moment, so the checker pod can fail against a starting server. Require ContainerStatuses[i].Ready as well.
  2. Line 1257 exceeds the 120-character limit.

As per coding guidelines: "keep lines within 120 characters".

Proposed fix
-func waitForDaemonSetPods(ctx context.Context, client kubernetes.Interface, ns, selector string, wantCount int, timeout time.Duration) ([]corev1.Pod, error) {
+func waitForDaemonSetPods(
+	ctx context.Context,
+	client kubernetes.Interface,
+	ns, selector string,
+	wantCount int,
+	timeout time.Duration,
+) ([]corev1.Pod, error) {
 	deadline := time.Now().Add(timeout)
 	for {
 		pods, err := client.CoreV1().Pods(ns).List(ctx, metav1.ListOptions{LabelSelector: selector})
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, err
 		}
 		var running []corev1.Pod
 		for i := range pods.Items {
-			if pods.Items[i].Status.Phase == corev1.PodRunning && pods.Items[i].Status.PodIP != "" {
+			if pods.Items[i].Status.Phase == corev1.PodRunning &&
+				pods.Items[i].Status.PodIP != "" &&
+				podContainersReady(&pods.Items[i]) {
 				running = append(running, pods.Items[i])
 			}
 		}

Add the helper:

func podContainersReady(p *corev1.Pod) bool {
	for i := range p.Status.ContainerStatuses {
		if !p.Status.ContainerStatuses[i].Ready {
			return false
		}
	}
	return len(p.Status.ContainerStatuses) > 0
}
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In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/clustervalidator/checks.go` around
lines 1257 - 1282, Update waitForDaemonSetPods to accept pods only when they are
Running, have a non-empty PodIP, and satisfy a podContainersReady readiness
check; add that helper to require at least one container status and every
container to be Ready. Reformat the waitForDaemonSetPods declaration to stay
within 120 characters.

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In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/clustervalidator/checks.go`:
- Around line 1390-1413: The under-replicated Deployment path in the Tier-1
validation check is too critical for transient rollout or readiness states, and
its recommendation does not match the comparison. Update the verdict to fail
only when no replicas are available or when readiness is below the desired count
outside an in-progress rollout, using Deployment status fields such as
AvailableReplicas, UpdatedReplicas, and Replicas; align the recommendation text
with that rule.
- Around line 1163-1165: Replace all U+2014 em dashes with standard ASCII
punctuation in checks.go at lines 1006, 1112, 1163-1165, 1240, 1362, and 1428,
covering the Gateway Routes warning, TTL skip comment, node-to-node skip output,
success message, and the checkTier1Deployments/checkTier2StatefulSets godocs;
use ASCII for the arrow-adjacent separator. Also update the RBAC bootstrap
comment in validator.go lines 189-191. No direct changes are needed beyond these
listed text occurrences.

In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/clustervalidator/validator.go`:
- Around line 90-93: Update the comments for Tier1DeploymentsOK and
Tier2StatefulSetsOK to state that they remain nil for compute-plane roles or
when the corresponding resource-list call fails, while no matching resources set
them to true.

---

Outside diff comments:
In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/clustervalidator/checks.go`:
- Around line 1155-1204: Update the Node-to-Node validation flow around
waitForDaemonSetPods to use the created DaemonSet’s
Status.DesiredNumberScheduled as the readiness target, rather than
len(schedulable), so untolerated tainted nodes are excluded. After readiness,
select checkerNode from a Running server pod before continuing the check. Add a
regression test covering a schedulable list containing a tainted node and verify
NodeToNodeOK remains correct.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/clustervalidator/checks.go`:
- Around line 1099-1104: Update the DaemonSet listing logic in the sweep around
AppsV1().DaemonSets(...).List to handle err explicitly: when the list call
fails, log a warning containing the error details, then return; retain the
existing empty-list return behavior separately.
- Around line 1257-1282: Update waitForDaemonSetPods to accept pods only when
they are Running, have a non-empty PodIP, and satisfy a podContainersReady
readiness check; add that helper to require at least one container status and
every container to be Ready. Reformat the waitForDaemonSetPods declaration to
stay within 120 characters.

In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/clustervalidator/validator.go`:
- Line 160: Remove the duplicate sweep invocation from the validator flow,
keeping sweepOrphanN2NDaemonSets in checkNodeToNode only. Define a named
constant for the 10-minute orphan DaemonSet TTL alongside orphanNamespaceTTL and
reuse it at the retained call site.
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  • src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/clustervalidator/summary_test.go

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@rohithb-hub rohithb-hub changed the title feat(nvca): add control-plane cluster validator role, gateway and storage checks feat(nvca): extend control-plane validator with HA checks, DaemonSet n2n, and route CR type check Aug 18, 2026
- BUILD.bazel: add k8s.io/api/apps/v1 dep (CI failure), remove
  k8s.io/client-go/dynamic and apimachinery/pkg/runtime/schema
  (no longer used after removing dynClient and reworking route check)

- checkNodeToNode: use DaemonSet.Status.DesiredNumberScheduled as the
  waitForDaemonSetPods target instead of len(schedulable). The DaemonSet
  scheduler respects taints and tolerations, so nodes with NoSchedule
  taints that the DaemonSet has no toleration for are excluded from
  DesiredNumberScheduled. Waiting on len(schedulable) would block on
  pods that can never be scheduled. Fall back to len(schedulable) when
  the status field is not populated immediately after creation.

- checkNodeToNode: select checkerNode from a Running server pod instead
  of schedulable[0], so the checker is guaranteed to be on a node where
  the DaemonSet actually scheduled.

- Remove duplicate sweepOrphanN2NDaemonSets call from Run() — the sweep
  is already called inside checkNodeToNode which is the only place that
  creates n2n DaemonSets. Add orphanN2NDaemonSetTTL named constant.

- sweepOrphanN2NDaemonSets: log a warning when the DaemonSet list call
  fails instead of silently discarding the error.
Em dashes: replace U+2014 with ASCII punctuation in all new strings,
comments, and godoc added in this branch (checks.go, validator.go).

Tier-1 rolling update false positive: skip Deployments where a rolling
update is in progress (ObservedGeneration < Generation or UpdatedReplicas
< spec.replicas) to avoid flagging transient readiness drops during
normal rollouts as under-replication failures. Fix recommendation text
to not reference a specific replica count.

Nil comments: correct Tier1DeploymentsOK and Tier2StatefulSetsOK godoc
to state they are nil only when the check did not run or a list call
failed; pre-install (no resources found) yields true, not nil.

Tainted node regression test: add TestCheckNodeToNode_TaintedNodeExcluded
covering a 3-node cluster with one NoSchedule taint. The test captures
the DaemonSet's label set (including the random instance suffix) so the
pod-list reactor returns pods that survive FakePods.List label filtering.
The test proves waitForDaemonSetPods converges on DesiredNumberScheduled=2
rather than hanging on len(schedulable)=3.

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…e the enforcement test image unshadowed

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…y write, and retry an unconfirmed Not-Ready

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…t rollout began as progress, whatever its ordinal

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…ts template or update strategy as well as its update revision

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… it instead of reusing the Envoy row list

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… Gateways in Tier-1, and leave the row unknown when it cannot be told

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…er than writing it on every render

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…e the probe image default comes from on NGC and on a mirror

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