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The gang scheduler queue label key is a compile-time constant, kai.scheduler/queue. That key is itself a deploy-time setting of KAI Scheduler (one key per deployment), and the NVIDIA Run:ai platform ships the same engine pinned to runai/queue, so on a Run:ai cluster the label NVCRE applied was ignored and gangScheduler could not target a queue.

  • add optional gangScheduler.queueLabelKey to the shared GangSchedulerSpec, covering Certification and WorkloadRun in one change; empty resolves to kai.scheduler/queue in code, the same way queue defaults to default-queue; specs without gangScheduler render byte-identically, and existing gang-scheduler specs change only by the pod-template label copy added below
  • validate the key at the API server: qualified-name pattern with the name segment bounded inline, MaxLength=317, and a CEL rule capping the optional prefix at 253 characters (the one bound a single RE2 pattern cannot express); envtest cases prove the accept and both reject paths against the real CRDs
  • stamp the queue label on the pod template metadata in addition to the Job template metadata at every write site (certification runtimes, torch, MPI launcher and worker), so queue assignment does not depend on Trainer/JobSet label propagation; this also makes the existing docs sentence about pod labels true
  • docs: every gangScheduler example gains the Run:ai variant (schedulerName: runai-scheduler, queueLabelKey: runai/queue, queue must name an existing queue), plus guidance to run in a namespace associated with a Run:ai project and a note that Run:ai validates the queue rather than falling back to a default; label-placement wording corrected; ADR-076 in docs/designs/

Verified with three renders against a baseline nvcrectl built from main: a cert without gangScheduler renders byte-identical; a cert with gangScheduler and no queueLabelKey renders today's output plus the pod-template copy of the same label; a cert with queueLabelKey: runai/queue carries the label at both metadata levels with zero kai.scheduler/queue occurrences. Existing gang-scheduler goldens gained only the pod-template label (the unit-test projections also grew a field that reports it). Full unit and integration suites green; make verify-doc-links clean.

Note for merging: this and #331 both regenerate the two CRD YAMLs and add a row to docs/designs/README.md; whichever lands second needs a trivial branch update.

Related Issue

Closes #322

Type of Change

  • 🐛 Bug fix
  • ✨ New feature
  • 💥 Breaking change
  • 📚 Documentation
  • 🔧 Refactoring
  • 🔨 Build/CI

Component(s) Affected

  • API / CRDs
  • Controller / Reconcilers
  • Catalog / Workloads
  • CLI (nvcrectl)
  • Helm / Deployment
  • Documentation / CI
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  • Tests pass locally
  • Manual testing completed
  • No breaking changes (or documented)

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  • make manifests generate run (if *_types.go was modified)
  • Golden files updated (if integration test output changed)
  • Documentation updated (if needed)
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Adds GangSchedulerSpec.QueueLabelKey with Kubernetes label-key validation and Run:ai documentation. Propagates the configured key through WorkloadRun and runtime configuration. Applies queue labels to both replicated Job templates and nested pod templates. Updates Torch and MPI template construction. Extends certification, platform, and workflow projections to record both label locations. Adds platform override handling to dry-run rendering and avoids redundant MPI package installation.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: asivanadi0

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to b666e

Configurations using valid resource domains containing kubernetes.io cannot be admitted. Correct the validation before merge to preserve supported NIC resource configuration.

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Out of Scope Changes check ⚠️ Warning The pull request includes behavior changes unrelated to issue #322, including MPI SSH package-installation behavior, the initContainers runtime key, and dry-run --platform override handling in workloa… Remove the unrelated runtime and dry-run platform changes from this pull request, or link them to explicit issues and split them into separate pull requests.
Linked Issues check ❓ Inconclusive The reviewable changes address the linked issue objectives, but the generated Certification and WorkloadRun CRD manifests and relevant golden outputs are excluded by path filters, so their updates can… Provide the excluded generated CRD manifests and relevant expected JSON files, or otherwise verify that they contain the queueLabelKey schema and updated label projections. Excluded files include helm/cluster-readiness-engine/crds/nvcre.nvi…
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly describes the primary change: making the gang-scheduler queue label key configurable.
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the configurable queue label key, Run:ai support, pod-template labels, validation, documentation, and testing changes.
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed Docstring coverage is 92.86% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 14 functions across 9 files. (4 skipped: 4 …
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Provide the excluded generated CRD manifests and relevant expected JSON files, or otherwise verify that they contain the queueLabelKey schema and updated label projections. Excluded files include helm/cluster-readiness-engine/crds/nvcre.nvidia.com_certifications.yaml, helm/cluster-readiness-engine/crds/nvcre.nvidia.com_workloadruns.yaml, and the listed testdata expected.json files.

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COMMENT review — not an approve / request-changes gate.

Checked against HEAD e89dc0c on feat/322-queue-label-key (single commit). Branch is behind main by 1 (diverged: ahead 1 / behind 1 — the landed failure-log work from #316). Reviewed the diff as-is; did not rebase. CI (Lint/Build/Test/UAT/Verify/DCO) is green. Author already flags the CRD/README collision with #331 for whoever lands second.

What looks right

  • Config shape matches the real gap. schedulerName was already free-form; the only Run:ai miss was the hardcoded kai.scheduler/queue key. Optional queueLabelKey with a code default (mirroring queuedefault-queue, no CRD +kubebuilder:default) keeps file-based nvcrectl render consistent with the controller and leaves stored objects without the field untouched.
  • Both write paths. ApplyGangSchedulerToDependencies and applyGangScheduler (torch + MPI launcher/worker) resolve through gangSchedulerQueueLabelKey and stamp the queue under that key on Job template metadata and pod template metadata. That also fixes the pre-existing docs/code lie where the queue lived only on the Job template while docs claimed pod template labels. Conditional pod-template metadata when the label map is empty preserves byte-identical no-gangScheduler renders.
  • CRD validation is mostly the right split. Qualified-name Pattern with the name segment length inlined + MaxLength=317 + CEL prefix <= 253 is exactly what RE2 cannot express alone; envtest pins accept (runai/queue) and both reject paths (trailing-hyphen name, 254-char prefix). Shared GangSchedulerSpec covers Certification and WorkloadRun CRDs in one change.
  • Goldens / docs / ADR. New Run:ai cases under apply-deps, render, workloadrun build-workflow-spec, and validation; existing gang goldens only grow the pod-template copy. ADR-076 (skipping 075 after the #288/#309 collision) + index row, and every gangScheduler example site gets the Run:ai variant with the “queue must exist / no default fallback” note. Plumbing at both RuntimeConfig fill sites is the one-liner it should be.

1. queueLabelKey Pattern rejects explicit empty (unlike queue)

queue is validated as ^$|^[a-zA-Z0-9]… so an explicit empty string is legal and the code default still applies. queueLabelKey’s pattern is:

^([a-z0-9]…*/)?[a-zA-Z0-9]([-a-zA-Z0-9_.]{0,61}[a-zA-Z0-9])?$

with no ^$| alternative. Omitted field is fine (+optional / absent from the object), but queueLabelKey: "" fails OpenAPI validation even though gangSchedulerQueueLabelKey("") would correctly resolve to kai.scheduler/queue. That breaks the “same defaulting contract as queue” story the ADR and field docs advertise.

Please add the empty alternative (and a one-line validation case that "" is accepted), or document that empty is rejected and only omission means default — but then the code-default parallel with queue should be called out as intentional asymmetry, not sameness.

2. ADR-076 promises a docs mention that is not in the how-tos

ADR Alternatives Considered (namespace-level runai/enforce-scheduler-name) ends with: “The Run:ai docs section will mention it as an alternative to setting schedulerName explicitly.” The Run:ai blocks in certify-a-cluster.md / run-workloadrun.md cover project namespace + existing-queue validation, but never mention that annotation. Either add the one-liner the ADR committed to, or drop the promise from the ADR so the design record matches the shipped docs.

Residual (non-blocking)

  • Render projection still reads QueueLabel only from the hardcoded kai.scheduler/queue key (render_gang_scheduler_test.go), so the Run:ai golden correctly shows "queueLabel": "" while the real key sits in templateLabels / podTemplateLabels. Honest given the comments, but easy to misread later; a key-aware projection (or dropping queueLabel now that the sorted label lists exist) would age better.
  • Under Run:ai, omitting queue still code-defaults to default-queue, which the same docs say Run:ai will not accept as a fallback. The examples always set an explicit queue; a single caution next to the default sentence would close the loop.
  • No WorkloadRun-shaped envtest for queueLabelKey — fine while the schema is shared; Certification cases exercise the CRD.

Happy to re-review once the empty-string validation contract and the ADR/docs annotation line are aligned. Leaving as COMMENT — not approving yet.

Signed-off-by: Ebot Ndip-Agbor <endipagbor@nvidia.com>
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Both items plus two of the residuals in 99fb9a3, and the branch is rebased onto main.

  1. The queueLabelKey pattern now starts ^$| like queue, so explicit empty and omitted both mean the code default. A new envtest case proves queueLabelKey: "" is accepted by a real API server (the CEL prefix rule passes vacuously on empty, there is no slash to split on), and ADR-076 states the pattern and the empty-equals-omitted contract verbatim.
  2. Both Run:ai how-to blocks carry the runai/enforce-scheduler-name line the ADR promised, with the caveat that the annotation does not translate the queue label key.
  3. The render projection resolves queueLabel through the spec's queueLabelKey now, so the Run:ai golden shows team-a instead of an empty string with the value buried in the label lists.
  4. The docs warn next to the default-queue sentence that Run:ai will not accept the fallback, so queue should always name a real queue. Left the WorkloadRun-shaped envtest out per your note, the schema is shared.

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Looks like this needs a rebase onto main before re-review (conflicts after the recent main merges).

Resolve overlapping doc table rows and the validation test comment, and
propagate the override matrix count from PR 331 into the queue-label-key
golden added on this branch.

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236-236: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Match the reserved domain at a label boundary. The CEL contains('kubernetes.io/') check rejects notkubernetes.io/rdma, although the extended-resource pattern accepts it. Use startsWith('kubernetes.io/') plus contains('.kubernetes.io/') to reject only the reserved domain and its subdomains. Apply the same correction to Certification and run make manifests generate.

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[Feature]: Gang scheduling on Run:ai clusters: configurable queue label key

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