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Extends the cluster-validator binary with a control-plane role that runs
gateway, storage, overlay networking, and HA readiness checks — replacing
the previous GPU/SMB check set and the two-node node-to-node probe with a
DaemonSet-based full-mesh connectivity test.

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Role switch (VALIDATOR_ROLE)

The existing validator always ran GPU/SMB checks, which produce false
failures on a control-plane cluster. A role switch in Run() branches the
check set on VALIDATOR_ROLE. An unrecognized value falls back to
compute-plane for backward compatibility. dynClient dynamic.Interface is
removed from Run() — no check requires it after the route check was
reworked to use the discovery API.

New checks when VALIDATOR_ROLE=control-plane

  • Default StorageClass (critical): verifies a default StorageClass exists for PVC provisioning.
  • Gateway API CRDs (critical): confirms gateway.networking.k8s.io/v1 is registered with gatewayclasses, gateways, httproutes, grpcroutes.
  • Envoy Gateway (non-critical): checks envoy-gateway-system has running pods. Non-critical because Envoy Gateway is installed by nvcf up; expected absent pre-install.
  • Route CR types (non-critical): uses the Kubernetes discovery API to verify httproute, tcproute, grpcroute, udproute are registered as API resources — equivalent to kubectl api-resources | grep route. No dependency on actual route object names or counts.
  • External LB (non-critical): passive scan for LoadBalancer services with an assigned external address.
  • Node-to-node overlay (critical): deploys a server DaemonSet on every schedulable node, then a checker pod on node[0] TCP-connects to each cross-node server pod IP. Validates full-mesh connectivity across all nodes, not just a single pair.

Node-to-node: DaemonSet approach

The previous implementation pinned a server pod to node A and a client pod
to node B, testing only one path and missing CNI issues on any other node.
The DaemonSet approach schedules a server pod on every schedulable node. The
checker pod connects to all cross-node server IPs in one shell script
(nc -z -w 5 19999 || exit 1 && ...). Exit code 0 means all paths are
reachable; non-zero means at least one node is unreachable.

ActiveDeadlineSeconds is forbidden on DaemonSet pod templates (Kubernetes
rejects it). The DaemonSet is cleaned up by a deferred delete using
context.Background() so cleanup runs even when the parent context has
expired. If the validator is SIGKILLed before the defer fires,
sweepOrphanN2NDaemonSets deletes any nvcf-n2n-server-* DaemonSets older
than 10 minutes at the start of the next run, mirroring the pattern used by
sweepOrphanTestNamespaces for netpol-validation namespaces.

HA readiness checks (CP Resilience SDD)

Two new checks from the Self-Hosted Control Plane Resilience SDD:

  • Tier-1 Deployment readiness (critical): lists all Deployments in
    control-plane namespaces (nvcf, sis, api-keys, ess, ncp, nats-system,
    vault-system, cassandra-system, envoy-gateway-system) and fails if any
    have readyReplicas < spec.replicas. No hardcoded Deployment names — any
    new service added to those namespaces is automatically covered.

  • Tier-2 StatefulSet quorum and placement (critical): lists all StatefulSets
    with spec.replicas == 3 in the same namespaces and fails if
    readyReplicas < 3 or any two pods share the same node. Covers NATS
    JetStream, OpenBao Raft, and Cassandra without hardcoding names.

Both pass trivially before nvcf up (namespaces absent) and on non-HA installs
(spec.replicas == 1; no spec.replicas == 3 StatefulSets found). They only
enforce when the Helmfile resilience profile is applied. Two new CheckKey*
constants (tier1_deployments, tier2_statefulsets) are added to summary.go
and metrics.go so the Prometheus gauges appear pre-zeroed on the first scrape.

For the Reviewer

  • internal/clustervalidator/validator.go: Run() loses dynClient param; ValidationState gains Tier1DeploymentsOK and Tier2StatefulSetsOK; printSummary adds Tier-1/Tier-2 rows.
  • internal/clustervalidator/checks.go: DaemonSet node-to-node probe with orphan sweep, checkTier1Deployments, checkTier2StatefulSets, sweepOrphanN2NDaemonSets. checkGatewayRoutes signature changes from dynClient dynamic.Interface to client kubernetes.Interface (discovery API).
  • internal/clustervalidator/summary.go: CheckKeyTier1Deployments, CheckKeyTier2StatefulSets added; AllCheckKeys grows from 16 to 18.
  • internal/metrics/metrics.go: clusterValidatorCheckKeys() updated with two new keys.
  • cmd/cluster-validator/main.go: dynClient removed; parseRole normalises VALIDATOR_ROLE.
  • internal/clustervalidator/checks_controlplane_test.go: TestCheckGatewayRoutes_NilClientSkips replaced with TestCheckGatewayRoutes_MissingCRDs; TestCheckNodeToNode_ServerPodCreateFailure replaced with TestCheckNodeToNode_DaemonSetCreateFailure.

For QA

Tested on k3d ncp-local (1 server + 5 agents, full NVCF stack deployed)
with VALIDATOR_ROLE=control-plane VALIDATOR_PREFLIGHT=true:

  • Default StorageClass (local-path): passed
  • Gateway API CRDs: passed
  • Envoy Gateway (4 pods running): passed
  • Route CR types (httproutes, tcproutes, grpcroutes, udproutes registered): passed
  • External LB (3 services with IPs): passed
  • Node-to-node DaemonSet: 6 server pods across all nodes, checker on agent-0 verified 5 cross-node paths: passed
  • Tier-1 Deployments (18 Deployments all ready): passed
  • Tier-2 StatefulSets (3 quorum StatefulSets, 3 Ready pods on distinct nodes): passed

Orphan sweep verified: manually created an orphan DaemonSet, waited 16
minutes, re-ran validator — sweep deleted it before creating a new DaemonSet
for the current run.

Full end-to-end wiring (VALIDATOR_ROLE in Job env, DaemonSet RBAC) covered
by companion PR #782.

Issues

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  • New or existing tests cover these changes.
  • The documentation is up to date with these changes.

Summary by CodeRabbit

New Features

  • Added role-aware validation for control-plane and compute-plane clusters.
  • Control-plane validation now covers storage, Gateway API, Envoy Gateway, routes, load balancers, node connectivity, and workload high availability.
  • Validation summaries and metrics show checks relevant to the selected role.
  • Added configurable probe images and OpenBao namespace handling.
  • Added explicit unknown statuses, diagnostics, and warnings for unavailable or incomplete checks.

Bug Fixes

  • Unrecognized non-empty roles now default to compute-plane validation with a warning.
  • Improved probe cleanup, security, naming, and bounded waits.
  • Added cleanup for orphaned validation resources.
  • Improved handling of RBAC limitations, rollout stalls, and incomplete readiness information.

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Walkthrough

The cluster validator now supports typed compute-plane and control-plane roles. Control-plane validation adds checks for storage, Gateway API, Envoy Gateway, load balancers, node connectivity, and workload readiness. The CLI warns about unknown non-empty VALIDATOR_ROLE values.

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Role-aware cluster validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
CLI role parsing and build wiring
src/compute-plane-services/nvca/cmd/cluster-validator/main.go, src/compute-plane-services/nvca/cmd/cluster-validator/main_test.go, src/compute-plane-services/nvca/cmd/cluster-validator/BUILD.bazel
parseRole returns a typed role and a recognition flag. main warns about unknown non-empty VALIDATOR_ROLE values and passes the normalized role to Run.
Validation roles and result reporting
src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/clustervalidator/validator.go, src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/clustervalidator/summary.go, src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/clustervalidator/validator_test.go, src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/clustervalidator/summary_test.go, src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/metrics/metrics.go
Run passes the typed role to role-specific checks. Summary output omits checks that do not apply to the role and reports skipped critical control-plane checks as UNKNOWN. Metrics and tests include the eight new check keys.
Control-plane capability and HA checks
src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/clustervalidator/checks.go, src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/clustervalidator/BUILD.bazel
Control-plane checks validate StorageClasses, Gateway API resources, Envoy Gateway readiness, route types, external load balancers, node-to-node connectivity, Tier-1 Deployments, and Tier-2 StatefulSets. Probe namespaces, images, cleanup, rollout states, RBAC states, quorum, and placement are covered.
Control-plane validation coverage
src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/clustervalidator/checks_controlplane_test.go
Tests cover resource checks, probe lifecycle behavior, rollout and RBAC states, StatefulSet quorum and placement, and OpenBao namespace overrides.

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  participant ClusterValidatorCLI
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  participant KubernetesAPI
  participant ValidationSummary
  ClusterValidatorCLI->>clustervalidatorRun: pass normalized role
  clustervalidatorRun->>KubernetesAPI: execute role-specific checks
  KubernetesAPI-->>clustervalidatorRun: return check results
  clustervalidatorRun->>ValidationSummary: build role-specific rows and readiness
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Actionable comments posted: 10

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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.

🤖 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.go`
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
behavior.
🤖 Prompt for all review comments with 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.

Inline comments:
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.

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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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- Around line 1199-1207: The node-to-node probe security context lacks an
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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
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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.

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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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@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
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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
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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.
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Comment thread src/compute-plane-services/nvca/cmd/cluster-validator/main.go Outdated
CheckKeyExternalLB = "external_lb"
CheckKeyNodeToNode = "node_to_node"
// HA readiness checks (CP Resilience SDD).
CheckKeyTier1Deployments = "tier1_deployments"

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@shobham-nv kindly take a look if these are still applicable ?

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Comment thread src/compute-plane-services/nvca/cmd/cluster-validator/main.go
The comment claimed full-mesh validation. The probe is a single-source star from node[0], so record the actual coverage and its limits.
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Several checks could report a broken cluster as healthy, or a healthy cluster
as broken. A 403 took the trivial-pass exit; a rollout wedged on a bad image
was skipped forever rather than failed; node-to-node passed with zero packets
sent; Envoy Gateway counted pods by phase across the whole namespace; the
first default StorageClass short-circuited the multi-default scan; and the
summary published GPU keys from zero values on control-plane runs. In the
other direction, DesiredNumberScheduled was read off the DaemonSet create
response (always zero) so the wait counted tainted nodes, Tier-2 had no
rollout tolerance, and transient List errors were recorded as definitive
failures. Unrun critical checks now render as an explicit UNKNOWN row instead
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Comment thread src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/clustervalidator/checks.go
…g CRDs missing

A per-version ServerResourcesForGroupVersion error was swallowed with continue,
leaving the resource set incomplete. Since the group is already known to exist,
the only effect is that checkGatewayAPICRDs reports the required CRDs as missing
and fails a healthy cluster on a transient throttle or 503. Return the wrapped
error so both callers leave the result unknown.

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

880-1059: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Track Gateway resources by GroupVersion.

discoverGatewayAPIResources stores only resource names, so a resource in any served version satisfies the check. The repository-owned Gateway manifests use HTTPRoute and GRPCRoute at gateway.networking.k8s.io/v1 and TCPRoute at gateway.networking.k8s.io/v1alpha2. If discovery returns those names only under other versions, checkGatewayRoutes and the critical checkGatewayAPICRDs row can report success. The subsequent Helm apply can reject the route objects, leaving traffic unconfigured. Preserve each resource's GroupVersion and validate the exact version/resource pairs used by the charts in discoverGatewayAPIResources, checkGatewayAPICRDs, and checkGatewayRoutes.

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In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/clustervalidator/checks.go` around
lines 880 - 1059, Update discoverGatewayAPIResources to preserve each resource’s
GroupVersion alongside its name, then make checkGatewayAPICRDs and
checkGatewayRoutes validate the chart-required pairs: HTTPRoute and GRPCRoute at
gateway.networking.k8s.io/v1, and TCPRoute at
gateway.networking.k8s.io/v1alpha2. Ensure resources found only under other
versions do not satisfy either check, while retaining the existing status and
reporting behavior.

1521-1674: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Block readiness when Tier-1 Deployment state is incomplete.

checkTier1Deployments skips a non-stalled rollout before checking ReadyReplicas. If all Deployments are skipped, it leaves Tier1DeploymentsOK nil. If another Deployment is ready, it sets the result true. printSummary omits a nil Tier-1 result, and the validator can return NVCF-Ready in both cases.

A forbidden namespace has the same defect. deniedCount prevents only the local pre-install pass. It does not prevent the final success path when another namespace is readable. If every namespace is denied, the nil result is still omitted.

The stalled path is correct. ProgressDeadlineExceeded reaches the readiness check and fails when ReadyReplicas < want. Keep that behavior.

Represent a skipped rollout or denied namespace as an explicit Tier-1 unknown result, and make printSummary treat that critical result as blocking. Set Tier-1 to true only when every namespace was observed and every Deployment passed readiness. Add summary-level tests for only a rollout, mixed ready and rolling Deployments, and partial or complete RBAC denial.

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In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/clustervalidator/checks.go` around
lines 1521 - 1674, Update checkTier1Deployments to set Tier1DeploymentsOK
explicitly false or unknown whenever any Deployment remains in rollout or any
namespace is RBAC-denied; only set it true when all namespaces and Deployments
are observed and ready, while preserving stalled-rollout failure handling.
Update printSummary so a non-true Tier-1 result blocks the overall ready status,
and add summary tests covering rollout-only, mixed ready/rolling, partial
denial, and complete denial cases.

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Keep skipped rollouts unknown and scope placement to ready StatefulSet pods.

checkTier2StatefulSets skips readiness and placement when CurrentRevision differs from a non-empty UpdateRevision. If another qualifying StatefulSet passes, checkedCount > 0 and failures == 0, so the function sets Tier2StatefulSetsOK to true even though the rolling StatefulSet was not assessed. An under-replicated or co-located workload can therefore produce a green control-plane result.

The pod check also lists every Running pod that matches sts.Spec.Selector. It does not require the pod to have the PodReady condition or to be controlled by the current StatefulSet. An unrelated matching pod or an extra unready pod can therefore make a healthy StatefulSet fail placement.

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In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/clustervalidator/checks.go` around
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StatefulSets skipped during rolling updates as unknown, preventing
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Represent invoked UNKNOWN checks in the published summary

In a control-plane run, checkStorageClass, checkTier1Deployments, and checkTier2StatefulSets can run but leave their result pointers nil when list operations fail or all relevant objects are mid-rollout. printSummary renders critical nil results as UNKNOWN without changing readiness, but buildSummary omits those keys from ValidatorSummary.Checks. The reconciler then treats the invoked checks like role-skipped checks and emits no check metric. Preserve the UNKNOWN state in the wire summary, or apply one consistent readiness and wire representation for these outcomes.

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invoked but retain nil result pointers—especially DefaultStorageClassOK,
Tier1DeploymentsOK, and Tier2StatefulSetsOK—are included in
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In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/clustervalidator/checks.go`:
- Around line 880-1059: Update discoverGatewayAPIResources to preserve each
resource’s GroupVersion alongside its name, then make checkGatewayAPICRDs and
checkGatewayRoutes validate the chart-required pairs: HTTPRoute and GRPCRoute at
gateway.networking.k8s.io/v1, and TCPRoute at
gateway.networking.k8s.io/v1alpha2. Ensure resources found only under other
versions do not satisfy either check, while retaining the existing status and
reporting behavior.
- Around line 1521-1674: Update checkTier1Deployments to set Tier1DeploymentsOK
explicitly false or unknown whenever any Deployment remains in rollout or any
namespace is RBAC-denied; only set it true when all namespaces and Deployments
are observed and ready, while preserving stalled-rollout failure handling.
Update printSummary so a non-true Tier-1 result blocks the overall ready status,
and add summary tests covering rollout-only, mixed ready/rolling, partial
denial, and complete denial cases.
- Around line 1676-1808: Update checkTier2StatefulSets to track qualifying
StatefulSets skipped during rolling updates as unknown, preventing
Tier2StatefulSetsOK from becoming true while any remains unassessed. In the
placement check, consider only PodReady=True pods controlled by the current
StatefulSet, require the configured replica count, and then validate distinct
Spec.NodeName values.

In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/clustervalidator/validator.go`:
- Around line 171-373: Update buildSummary so control-plane checks that were
invoked but retain nil result pointers—especially DefaultStorageClassOK,
Tier1DeploymentsOK, and Tier2StatefulSetsOK—are included in
ValidatorSummary.Checks as UNKNOWN rather than omitted. Keep role-skipped checks
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- Line 1601: Update the owner-reference check around pod validation to verify
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Comment on lines +1791 to +1800
// StatefulSets roll one pod at a time, so readyReplicas == want-1
// is the steady state for the whole duration of any image bump,
// PVC resize, or node drain. Warn rather than fail, unless the
// controller has not even observed the current generation.
if sts.Status.UpdateRevision != "" && sts.Status.CurrentRevision != sts.Status.UpdateRevision {
msg := fmt.Sprintf("%s/%s: rolling update in progress (ready: %d/%d); re-run check after rollout completes",
ns, sts.Name, sts.Status.ReadyReplicas, want)
printWarning(log, msg)
state.Warnings = append(state.Warnings, "Tier-2 StatefulSets: "+msg)
rollingCount++

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Regression — this is strictly worse than what it replaced. (Follow-up to the Tier-2 rollout-tolerance comment.)

CurrentRevision only advances when a RollingUpdate completes, so this condition is permanently true for three real states, none of which is a transient rollout:

  1. a wedged rollout (bad image, ReadyReplicas=2/3);
  2. rollingUpdate.partition > 0;
  3. updateStrategy.type: OnDelete — which this repo's OpenBao ships: deploy/helm/openbao/helm/templates/hook-post-01-refresh-jwt-plugin-catalog.yaml:50,81 say verbatim "before the OnDelete StatefulSet is manually rotated".

At a42d058, OpenBao at 2/3 Ready gave failures=["vault-system/openbao: readyReplicas=2 (need 3)"] -> Tier2StatefulSetsOK=false -> critical FAIL, exit 1. Now: rollingCount++, the return at 1847/1877 leaves the pointer nil -> UNKNOWN row -> isReady untouched -> "Cluster is NVCF-Ready (with warnings)", exit 0, and tier2_statefulsets is omitted from the summary so the gauge is deleted.

Tier-1 got deploymentRolloutStalled; Tier-2 got no equivalent, and ProgressDeadlineExceeded is Deployment-only. TestCheckTier2StatefulSets_RollingUpdateWarnsNotFails (checks_controlplane_test.go:709) codifies the new behaviour on an input the old code correctly failed. Nothing covers OnDelete, partition, or a wedged rollout.

A StatefulSet equivalent of the stall detector needs a time bound, since there is no ProgressDeadlineExceeded here — e.g. treat "revision mismatch and ReadyReplicas < want" as stalled once the StatefulSet's UpdateRevision has been current for longer than a grace window, or simply fail when ReadyReplicas < want-1.

Comment on lines +1762 to +1772
for _, ns := range controlPlaneNamespaceSet() {
stsList, err := client.AppsV1().StatefulSets(ns).List(ctx, metav1.ListOptions{})
if err != nil {
// See checkTier1Deployments: a 403 must not reach the trivial-pass
// exit. This fires today, as the validator ClusterRole grants
// deployments and daemonsets but not statefulsets.
if apierrors.IsForbidden(err) {
deniedCount++
continue
}
printWarning(log, fmt.Sprintf("Could not list StatefulSets in %s: %v", ns, err))

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The RBAC half of the earlier finding was answered with this comment rather than with a grant, and the comment is right: it does fire today.

deployments/nvca-operator/templates/rbac.yaml:60-62 is still apiGroups:["apps"] resources:["deployments","daemonsets"] verbs:["get","list"]; lines 71-73 grant storage.k8s.io:["csidrivers"] only. deploy/helm/nvca-operator/.../rbac.yaml is byte-identical (diff -q confirms). Neither chart copy was touched by this PR.

Under the operator SA on a control-plane run:

  1. StatefulSets().List 403s in all 10 namespaces -> Tier-2 permanently UNKNOWN;
  2. StorageClasses().List 403s -> checkStorageClass (826) warns and leaves nil -> critical StorageClass row permanently UNKNOWN;
  3. namespaces/pods do have create+delete, so checkNodeToNode gets past its namespace create and 403s at DaemonSets(ns).Create (1345) — which is not IsForbidden-aware -> printError + NodeToNodeOK=&false -> critical -> NVCF-Not-Ready on every CronJob tick on a healthy cluster, plus a namespace created and deleted each tick.

Note the asymmetry the missing grant creates: the nvcf-cli bootstrap ClusterRole (src/clis/nvcf-cli/internal/selfhosted/clustervalidator.go:190) is read-only, so the same permission error lands one step earlier there and yields a benign UNKNOWN. The identical RBAC gap produces opposite verdicts on the two launch paths.

Three resources are needed: apps/statefulsets get,list; storage.k8s.io/storageclasses get,list; apps/daemonsets create,delete (+ the IsForbidden guard on the Create at 1345).

Comment on lines 362 to 372
for _, c := range checks {
if c.Passed {
switch {
case c.Unknown:
// Surfaced, not silently dropped, but it does not fail the verdict:
// "we could not observe this" is not "this is broken".
printWarning(log, fmt.Sprintf(" %s", c.UnknownMsg))
case c.Passed:
printSuccess(log, fmt.Sprintf(" %s", c.PassMsg))
} else if c.Critical {
case c.Critical:
printError(log, fmt.Sprintf(" %s", c.FailMsg))
isReady = false

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The new UNKNOWN row is log-only — "we could not observe this critical thing" is published as a perfect green SLI.

case c.Unknown: calls printWarning and falls through without touching isReady, so printSummary returns nil, Run returns nil, the Job exits 0, verdict="NVCF-Ready", and buildSummary is called with verdictReady=true (validator.go:219-225). summary.go:255-261 skips nil pointers, and metrics.go:1427 DeleteLabelValues every prior key absent from the new map — so nvca_cluster_validator_check_status{check="tier2_statefulsets"} disappears rather than going to 0.

Net, on the operator chart (where the ClusterRole guarantees Tier-2 and StorageClass are UNKNOWN on every run): ready=1, exit 0, and no series to alert on for two critical preconditions. Revoking a single RBAC verb reaches this.

Converting "wrong answer" to "no answer" was the right instinct for the check functions, but the contract needs to be tri-state on the wire — either VerdictReady=false when a critical check is unknown, or a third value in the summary map — not a bool that only reaches a log line. As it stands, addCP's UNKNOWN path also has zero test coverage: grep 'Status Unknown\|UnknownMsg' *_test.go returns nothing, and *state.NodeToNodeOK == true is never asserted anywhere.

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_, err := client.CoreV1().Namespaces().Get(ctx, envoyGatewayNamespace, metav1.GetOptions{})
if err != nil {
if apierrors.IsNotFound(err) {
printError(log, fmt.Sprintf("Envoy Gateway namespace %s not found", envoyGatewayNamespace))
} else {
printError(log, fmt.Sprintf("Could not check Envoy Gateway namespace: %v", err))
}

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checkEnvoyGateway is the one control-plane check that was not converted — it still turns an unobservable API error into a definite false, and appends nothing to state.Warnings.

This error branch appends only to state.Recommendations, then ok := false; state.EnvoyGatewayOK = &ok. The pod-List branch at 1026 has the same shape.

Two consequences:

  1. A 403 on get namespaces, or an apiserver 500/timeout, publishes envoy_gateway=0 plus a "helm install eg ..." recommendation — asserting Envoy is broken when it was never observed. Every sibling this PR touched (StorageClass, Gateway CRDs, Gateway Routes, External LB) was deliberately converted to leave the pointer nil in exactly this situation.
  2. On a cluster where Envoy simply is not installed yet and everything else passes, this is the only finding, so len(state.Warnings)==0 and printSummary (validator.go:381-395) prints the yellow "Envoy Gateway: Not Found or Not Running" row and then the full-green box plus "Your cluster meets all requirements for NVCF workloads". That is the clean-banner contradiction from the last round, surviving in the one check that was not converted.

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"Tier-1 Deployments: status unknown (RBAC denied Deployment list in one or more control-plane namespaces)")
return
}

if rollingCount > 0 {
// A mid-rollout Deployment was skipped rather than assessed, so the
// ones that did pass cannot stand in for the whole tier. Unknown here
// warns without failing, so a routine upgrade is not reported as an
// outage.

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One paused Deployment makes the critical Tier-1 check permanently UNKNOWN — it can never pass and never fail.

rollingOut (1660) is ObservedGeneration < Generation || UpdatedReplicas < want, and deploymentRolloutStalled (1602) matches only Progressing=False / reason=ProgressDeadlineExceeded. Three states satisfy rollingOut while never producing that reason:

  • kubectl rollout pause sets Progressing={Status: Unknown, Reason: DeploymentPaused};
  • the documented progressDeadlineSeconds: 2147483647 sentinel never sets the condition at all;
  • a wedged deployment controller leaves ObservedGeneration behind Generation.

Any one of them keeps rollingCount >= 1 forever, so this returns with Tier1DeploymentsOK == nil even when every other Deployment is fully Ready — tier1_deployments deleted from the metric, verdict unaffected, indefinitely. Under continuous GitOps reconciliation across 10 namespaces, at least one Deployment is usually mid-rollout, so UNKNOWN is close to the steady state.

TestCheckTier1Deployments_HealthyPeerDoesNotMaskRollingOne certifies the suppression rather than bounding it. Suggest bounding it: assess the Deployments you could assess and report UNKNOWN only when the skipped one is also under-replicated.

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// sweepOrphanN2NNamespaces deletes any nvcf-n2n-validation-* namespaces older
// than ttl, taking the DaemonSet and checker pod inside with them. These are
// left behind when the validator process is killed with SIGKILL (OOM,
// force-delete, node failure) before the deferred cleanup fires. Namespaces
// younger than ttl are skipped in case they belong to a concurrent run.
func sweepOrphanN2NNamespaces(ctx context.Context, log *logrus.Entry, client kubernetes.Interface, ttl time.Duration) {

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Migration gap: the old sweepOrphanN2NDaemonSets (which listed DaemonSets in default) was deleted and replaced by this namespace-only sweep. A DaemonSet orphaned in default by the currently deployed validator is now unreclaimable by any code path — a busybox nc -l -p 19999 pod per node, indefinitely. Worth keeping the old DaemonSet sweep for a release or two.

Also: sweepOrphanN2NNamespaces / createNodeToNodeNamespace are near line-for-line copies of sweepOrphanTestNamespaces / createTestNamespace in this same package.

assert.Nil(t, state.Tier1DeploymentsOK,
"the only Deployment is mid-rollout, so readiness is unknown, not a pass or a failure")
assert.NotEmpty(t, state.Warnings, "rollout in progress must emit a warning")
assert.Contains(t, state.Warnings[0], "rollout in progress")

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assert.NotEmpty followed by state.Warnings[0] on the next line (same pattern at :720). assert does not stop the test, so on a regression this indexes an empty slice, panics, Go aborts the whole package, and the 12 tests scheduled after it — every RBAC-denial, five-replica, unowned-pod and partial-denial guard — silently never run. require.NotEmpty fixes it.

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printError(log, fmt.Sprintf("Tier-2 quorum/placement failures (%d):", len(failures)))
for _, f := range failures {
printInfo(log, " "+f)
}
state.Recommendations = append(state.Recommendations,
"Ensure Tier-2 StatefulSets (NATS, OpenBao, Cassandra) have 3 Ready pods each on distinct nodes.")

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Stale after generalising to any odd spec.replicas >= 3: a 5-member Cassandra at 4/5 Ready is told to "have 3 Ready pods each", a target it already exceeds. The header one line up also counts failures strings, so one StatefulSet with three co-located pods renders "failures (2)".

// checkGatewayAPICRDs verifies that the Gateway API CRD set is installed and
// registers all four required resource types. Without these CRDs neither the
// Gateway controller nor nvcf-cli can create routing objects.
func checkGatewayAPICRDs(ctx context.Context, client kubernetes.Interface, state *ValidationState) {

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make lint fails on the touched code: unused-parameter: 'ctx' here and at checks.go:1061. Both functions are PR-introduced and both were rewritten by this delta without dropping the dead ctx. nvca/AGENTS.md:103 states "make lint # Must pass (golangci-lint)"; no GitHub workflow invokes golangci-lint, so this breaks the documented local gate rather than CI.

Threading ctx into the discovery calls fixes the lint and makes them cancellable — today they are not, and Run has no deadline.

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// Non-critical: route CR types are installed by nvcf up and are expected to
// be absent on a fresh cluster before install.
func checkGatewayRoutes(ctx context.Context, client kubernetes.Interface, state *ValidationState) {
log := state.Log
printHeader(log, "Gateway Route CR Types")

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checkGatewayRoutes now evaluates exactly the same gatewayRouteRequirements set as the critical checkGatewayAPICRDs, so its non-critical row can never be false without the critical one already firing — and it pays a second full discovery walk (2x ServerGroups + N x ServerResourcesForGroupVersion) to compute a strictly redundant answer. Either give it a distinct requirement set or drop it and keep the single critical check.

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