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Refs #469. This is the ADR only; the implementation follows in its own PR once the design is agreed.

A placed workload pod that never becomes Ready leaves the Job at InProgress=True(WorkloadRunning) until timeoutPerJob. The motivating case is ADR-093's: a worker whose sshd refuses every session stays 0/1, the launcher gate never releases, and the probe output exists only in kubectl describe pod. The same gap covers a placed pod that never starts (ImagePullBackOff, a wedged init container).

ADR-106 adds a WorkloadPodsNotReady reason on the Job tier, next to the ADR-083 scheduling-stall detector. It folds in the corrections from the review on #469:

  • Detection is any placed pod (phase Pending or Running, not terminating) with ContainersReady=False, read from the same podread.JobPods list checkSchedulingBlocked already reads. There is no launcher gate: the list is worker-only under ADR-102. ADR-083 takes precedence.
  • Message comes from the pod's newest Unhealthy Event, with the pod's own fields as the fallback. For a Pending pod it is containerStatuses[].state.waiting. The Event is read once per episode, live through r.APIReader, with an involvedObject.name field selector and a UID check. Never through the cache.
  • RBAC: get and list on core events are added by hand to manager-role.yaml, since make manifests writes no RBAC (ADR-092).
  • Workflow and report: no new Workflow reason. schedulingBlockedMessage gains a case returning job <name> pods not ready: <msg>, so ReasonJobSchedulingBlocked carries it and the report's Blocked: line shows it with no report change.
  • Grace reuses schedulingStallGraceSeconds.
  • Timeout keeps counting. The reason is set on the same setJobInProgress call that stamps workloadStartTime, so a Job that is not Ready on its first running-path observation still times out. A test case pins this.
  • Restart safety: a new status.workloadPodsNotReadySince, normalized in cmd/integration/integration_test.go the same way schedulingBlockedSince is.
  • Tests: the message projection is a testutil golden under pkg/controller/testdata/. There are two integration cases: Running but not Ready, and ImagePullBackOff.

The number is 106. Main is at 102. 103 is claimed by #543 and #552, 104 by #510 and #551, and 105 by #447.

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…r become Ready

Issue NVIDIA#469. A placed workload pod that never becomes Ready, such as an
MPI worker whose sshd refuses every session (ADR-093) or a worker stuck
in ImagePullBackOff, leaves the Job reporting WorkloadRunning until
timeoutPerJob. This record proposes a WorkloadPodsNotReady reason on the
Job tier next to the ADR-083 scheduling-stall detector: any placed pod
with ContainersReady=False past schedulingStallGraceSeconds, the message
taken from the pod's Unhealthy Event through a live APIReader read, the
start time stamped in the same status write, and the Workflow relay
through ReasonJobSchedulingBlocked so the report does not change.

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The pull request adds ADR-106, which proposes how to detect and report placed workload pods that remain unready. It describes detection criteria, diagnostic messages, grace and timeout behavior, status and event updates, RBAC changes, and planned tests. It also adds ADR-106 to the design index. The pull request documents proposed behavior; it does not implement it.

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  • NVIDIA/cluster-readiness-engine#469 describes placed workload pods that remain unready while the Job stays in progress until timeoutPerJob. ADR-106 proposes reporting this state at the Job tier.
  • NVIDIA/cluster-readiness-engine#357 concerns stale CRD schemas pruning new status fields during chart upgrades. ADR-106 proposes adding an optional Job status field, but does not implement the schema update.

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ADR-104 is taken by the network attachments ADR in #510, and the open
PRs #447 and #556 hold 105 and 106, so this ADR moves to 107.

Signed-off-by: Kayne Tu <[email protected]>
The Event read rule sat in nvcre-manager-role, which is bound
cluster-wide under both rbac.scope values, so a namespaced install would
still let the controller read Events in every namespace. Put the rule in
nvcre-run-role next to pods/log, the other workload content read
ADR-092 scoped, so it follows rbac.scope. The manager role is unchanged,
and the namespace access check does not gain the verb, since the read is
best effort.

Signed-off-by: Anpoo Sivanadi <[email protected]>
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I went through the record against the code at 91418924. Every code citation in it is exact, the load-bearing claims hold (isJobTimedOut keys on job.Status.SchedulingBlockedSince and never on the Workflow reason, failTimedOutJob's attribution gate is on that same field, and blockedReasons already carries JobSchedulingBlocked, so the Blocked: line really does need no report change), ADR-106 is free, and the README row is in order.

The one thing I would rather settle here than in the implementation PR is the grace budget in decision 4. Five minutes covers one apt-get install openssh-server attempt: both steps in sshdInstallCommand are bounded at 120s, so a single attempt caps at 4 minutes. It does not cover the retry path. If attempt 1's install reaches its limit, the attempt ends at about 4 minutes and any attempt 2 longer than about 60s crosses the window. docs/operations/troubleshooting.md calls that normal ("A failed attempt followed by a successful one needs no action"), and no shipped catalog entry sets schedulingStallGraceSeconds (git grep schedulingStallGrace -- pkg/catalog/ is empty). So a multi-node NCCL run on a non-AWS platform, where the worker image is nvcr.io/nvidia/pytorch:26.01-py3 and the apt bootstrap runs, would print Blocked: job <name> pods not ready: ... and leave a permanent Warning Event on a run that then succeeds. Would you either widen the grace on the three communication entries, which decision 4's own escape hatch allows, or say in the record why reporting a one-retry install is acceptable? The 16-minute ceiling does not bear on this: that path ends in exit 1 and a worker that never becomes Ready, which is exactly what the detector should report.

Two smaller things.

  1. Decision 1's widened Pending predicate cannot tell a pod that is still starting normally from one that is stuck. TrainJobAdapter.GetStatus returns WorkloadRunning unconditionally after the suspend check (pkg/workload/trainjob.go:176-188), before any pod exists, so the episode starts as soon as the kubelet admits the pod and the whole image pull sits inside the grace window. The text decision 3 relays for a pod that is merely pulling is node: ContainerCreating: with an empty message. Decision 1's rationale lists only terminal waiting reasons as the gap being closed, so it would help to say which Pending states it means to report, or to give the Pending case its own window.

  2. The run-role.yaml bullet adds a list verb, but that template's header comment says "None of these resources is listed: the controller reads each one by name." The implementation section does not name the comment among the artifacts it updates. Worth adding, with one line on why this read is a list: a field-selected Event list has no name to get by.

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…ds chart (#551)

* docs(designs): add ADR-104 for a separate cluster-readiness-engine-crds chart

Helm installs a chart's crds/ directory only on first install, so a plain
helm upgrade runs the new controller against the old CRD schema and the API
server silently prunes the fields it lacks. nvcrectl works around this; direct
Helm, Helmfile and default Flux installs do not.

The ADR proposes publishing the CRDs as their own chart, moving the main
chart's CRDs into a conditional crds subchart (crds.enabled, default true),
adopting existing CRDs with --take-ownership (plus --force-conflicts on Helm 4
where another writer applied them), having nvcrectl skip its CRD apply when a
Helm release owns them, and signing the new chart like the main one. It amends
ADR-064 decision 1.

Status is Proposed, for maintainer review before implementation.

Refs #357

Signed-off-by: Kayne Tu <[email protected]>

* docs(designs): tighten ADR-104 upgrade order and Argo CD migration

CRD-first upgrades are safe only for additive schema changes: a field is
removed from the CRDs only once the previous release's controller no longer
writes it, since its writes would be pruned on upgrade and on rollback.

The Argo CD migration now disables automated pruning on the main Application
while crds.enabled is switched off, and checks that the CRDs Application
tracks the CRDs first. While both Applications render the CRDs either may
hold tracking, so ordering alone does not keep the main Application from
pruning them. The sequence is listed as untested until the docs are
validated against it.

Refs #357

Signed-off-by: Kayne Tu <[email protected]>

* docs(designs): spell out ADR-104's Argo CD handoff, skip-crds and partial upgrades

Argo CD: with self-heal, either Application can reclaim tracking of the CRDs
while both render them, so the handoff is now explicit: the CRDs Application
uses ServerSideApply=true, pruning on the main Application is off while
crds.enabled is switched off, the CRDs Application syncs last, and pruning
returns only once it alone tracks the CRDs.

nvcrectl: when a Helm release owns the CRDs, setup init also passes
--skip-crds to helm upgrade --install, so a first install of the main release
does not re-apply the subchart's CRDs and strip the CRDs chart's ownership on
Helm 4.

Partial upgrades: Helm applies the CRDs one at a time, so a conflict leaves
some upgraded. The docs now describe that state, why it is safe under the
upgrade order, and the recovery: rerun with --force-conflicts, then upgrade
the main chart.

Refs #357

Signed-off-by: Kayne Tu <[email protected]>

* docs(designs): require complete, live ownership before nvcrectl skips CRDs

crds.keep leaves the Helm ownership annotations on the CRDs after helm
uninstall, so "any CRD carries meta.helm.sh/release-name" could match a
release that no longer exists, and nvcrectl would stop reconciling the CRDs
for good. nvcrectl now skips its apply, and passes --skip-crds, only when all
seven CRDs name the same release and helm status confirms it exists. In every
other case it applies the CRDs as today, warning when ownership is split.

Also fixes a stray comma in the nvcrectl implementation note.

Refs #357

Signed-off-by: Kayne Tu <[email protected]>

* docs(designs): skip nvcrectl's CRD apply only for a deployed CRDs release

helm status returns a release whatever its state, so after a partial CRDs
upgrade the release is failed yet still matched, and nvcrectl would upgrade
the controller over partly upgraded CRDs. nvcrectl now skips its apply only
when the owning release is deployed. A failed or pending-* release stops
setup init before any change, with the release status and decision 6's
recovery: applying the CRDs itself could downgrade CRDs the failed upgrade
already moved.

Refs #357

Signed-off-by: Kayne Tu <[email protected]>

* docs(designs): state the pass criterion for ADR-104's Argo CD migration check

The Argo CD handoff is still unvalidated with automated pruning on. Before
the deployment guidance ships, it is run end to end on a cluster with
existing NVCRE objects, and passes only if all seven CRDs and every existing
object survive the handoff and the re-enabling of pruning.

Refs #357

Signed-off-by: Kayne Tu <[email protected]>

* docs(designs): have nvcrectl honor crds.enabled=false

Decision 3 says crds.enabled=false turns the CRDs off in every tool, but
decision 7 had nvcrectl apply them whenever no Helm release owned them, even
when the operator set crds.enabled=false through setup init. nvcrectl now
skips fetching and applying the CRDs when the release's effective values, from
this run or kept from an earlier one, set crds.enabled=false. The stop for a
failed or pending-* owning release still applies.

Refs #357

Signed-off-by: Kayne Tu <[email protected]>

* docs(designs): scope crds.enabled to rendering, align nvcrectl release states

helm show crds ignores dependency conditions, so crds.enabled=false turns the
CRDs off wherever Helm renders the chart (install, upgrade, template, Argo CD,
Flux) but not for scripts built on helm show crds. Decision 3 now says so and
requires such a script, like AICR's apply-crds.sh, to be retired in the same
change that sets the value; nvcrectl already reads the value itself.

The nvcrectl implementation note said every non-deployed status stops setup
init, contradicting decision 7. Both now list the states: deployed skips the
apply, failed or pending-* stops, and uninstalled (kept by
helm uninstall --keep-history) or no release applies the CRDs as today.

Refs #357

Signed-off-by: Kayne Tu <[email protected]>

* docs(designs): renumber the CRDs chart ADR to 107

ADR-104 is taken by the network attachments ADR in #510, and the open
PRs #447 and #556 hold 105 and 106, so this ADR moves to 107.

Signed-off-by: Kayne Tu <[email protected]>

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Signed-off-by: Kayne Tu <[email protected]>
…ready-adr

Conflict in docs/designs/README.md, the ADR index: keep both new rows,
106 (workload pods that never become ready) from this branch and 107
(separate CRDs chart) from main, in number order.

None of the files ADR-106 cites changed on main, so its line
references are unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Anpoo Sivanadi <[email protected]>
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@ndipebot thanks for the review. I merged main into the branch (no force-push), and the only conflict was the ADR index in docs/designs/README.md, where main added ADR-107 next to this branch's ADR-106, so I kept both rows in number order. None of the files ADR-106 cites changed on main, so the line references you checked are still exact, and make verify, make lint, go build and go vet pass locally. Could you re-approve when you have a moment?

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One more merge of main after #510 landed: the ADR index now also has the 104 row from #510, so the table lists 104, 106 and 107 in number order. Docs only, and make verify passes.

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I re-checked the record against the moved main and it holds. All twelve code citations still land on the exact lines named, including pkg/catalog/loader.go:67, pkg/controller/job_controller.go:867 and :911, pkg/controller/workflow_controller.go:1266 and :1303, pkg/report/report.go:560 and pkg/controller/cache.go:327. git log 7951cad..ecc15c27 over pkg/controller/, pkg/report/, pkg/podread/ and pkg/workload/ returns only #510 and a Helm pullPolicy fix, so nothing that landed changed the readiness or timeout handling the record describes. Decision 6 still stands: the attribution gate is job.Status.SchedulingBlockedSince at workflow_controller.go:1824 and :1844, not the Workflow reason. ADR-106 is still free (main carries 100, 101, 102, 104 and 107) and the README table reads 104, 106, 107 in number order. The RBAC point CodeRabbit raised is properly fixed at 91418924: manager-role.yaml keeps only create and patch on events for the recorder, and the read moved next to pods/log in nvcre-run-role.

The two questions I asked last time are still open. git log ecc15c27..pr/556 is four commits, and the only two authored for this branch, bad41e67 and 91418924, both predate my review, so the ADR text has not moved.

Decision 4's five minute grace against the sshd install retry path. pkg/platform/runtime.go:405 still budgets "4 minutes for the first attempt and 6 for each retry, 16 in all", defaultSchedulingStallGrace is still 5 * time.Minute (job_controller.go:76), and no shipped catalog entry sets schedulingStallGraceSeconds. One attempt that runs to its limit and then retries crosses the window, so a run that eventually succeeds still leaves a permanent Warning Event and a Blocked: line in the report. Is the intent that a category whose image installs sshd has to widen the field itself, and if so should the record name which entries need it?

Decision 1's widened Pending predicate. TrainJobAdapter.GetStatus returns WorkloadRunning before any pod exists, and pkg/workload/trainjob.go has not changed on main since 7951cad, so a slow first image pull sits inside the grace window and comes out the other side as a not-Ready episode. Is a long pull meant to be reported that way, or should decision 1 say what separates "still starting" from "stuck"?

Three smaller things are inline. None of them blocks a Proposed record, but all three are cheaper to settle here than in the implementation PR.


The order is the reverse of ADR-083's, for the reason ADR-083 gives: there kube-scheduler writes its own diagnosis into `PodScheduled`, so the condition is the better source; here the kubelet writes only the container name into `ContainersReady`, and the probe output is in the Event.

**The Event read is live, once per episode, and scoped to one pod.** It goes through `r.APIReader` as a `corev1.EventList` in the Job's namespace with field selectors `involvedObject.name=<pod>` and `reason=Unhealthy`, and keeps only Events whose `involvedObject.uid` is the pod's UID, so an Event left by a deleted pod of the same name is never relayed. The newest wins by `series.lastObservedTime`, then `lastTimestamp`, then `eventTime`. It is read only on the reconcile that is about to raise the reason; later reconciles in the same episode keep the condition message they already wrote. It must not be a cached read: a cached Event read starts a cluster-wide informer that needs `list` and `watch` in every namespace, which loops on forbidden under `rbac.scope: namespaced` (issue #424), and it is why `ClientOptions` (`pkg/controller/cache.go:327`) keeps ConfigMaps and PVCs out of the cache. A failed read is logged and falls through to the pod's own fields, so a missing permission degrades the message, never the detection.

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This says the Event is read only on the reconcile that raises the reason, and that later reconciles keep the message they already wrote. Line 61 says the final setJobInProgress takes its reason and message from the not-ready result, and setJobInProgress (job_controller.go:1470) passes message straight into setExclusiveCondition with no keep-the-existing rule. podsNotReadyMessage(pod, events) is specified at line 60 as pure, so a later reconcile handed no events returns the fallback and overwrites the probe text. The ADR-083 analogue recomputes blockMsg every reconcile (job_controller.go:862) precisely because its message is derived from the pod condition and is stable, which this one is not.

Could the record name the mechanism? For example: when the InProgress condition already carries WorkloadPodsNotReady for the same pod, reuse the existing message rather than recomputing, pinned by a case where the second reconcile has no Event available.

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Agreed. "Keep the message" had no mechanism behind it, and setJobInProgress (job_controller.go:1494 on current main) passes the message straight through, so the fallback would overwrite the probe text. Decision 3 now says that the running branch reuses the relayed text from the existing InProgress condition when it already carries WorkloadPodsNotReady for the same chosen pod and that pod is still Running. It recomputes only the (<n> of <m> pods not Ready) suffix, which the controller wrote itself. A change of chosen pod, or the pod leaving Running, recomputes the message, with a fresh Event read only if the new pod is Running. podsNotReadyMessage stays pure. A Pending pod's text is recomputed every reconcile, the way blockMsg is at :873, since it comes from the pod and is stable. The Testing plan pins it with the case you suggested: a second reconcile with no Event in the live fake keeps the probe text, and a second reconcile whose chosen pod changed reads again.

- In the `default` (running) branch, after the stall check: the final `setJobInProgress` takes its reason and message from the not-ready result, and one extra mutation sets or clears `workloadPodsNotReadySince` next to the existing `workloadStartTime` stamp. The Warning Event is emitted when the reason moves to `WorkloadPodsNotReady`.
- `restartFromCheckpoint` clears the marker with `workloadStartTime`.
- `+kubebuilder:rbac:groups="",resources=events,verbs=get;list`, for the record only.
- **`helm/cluster-readiness-engine/templates/run-role.yaml`**: a rule granting `get` and `list` on `events` in the core group, next to the `pods/log` read. Added by hand: `make manifests` writes no RBAC (ADR-092). ADR-092 put the controller's other read of workload content, pod logs, in `nvcre-run-role`, so this grant follows `rbac.scope` the same way: cluster-wide under `cluster`, and only in bound namespaces under `namespaced`. The Job is created in its Workflow's namespace, which that binding already covers. `nvcre-manager-role` is unchanged: it is bound cluster-wide under both scopes, and binding it per namespace would break its cluster-scoped grants. The namespace access check (`pkg/controller/namespace_access.go`) does not gain the verb, because the read is best effort (decision 3): a narrower custom Role without it degrades the message and does not hold the Workflow. The helm RBAC goldens under `test/helm/` and ADR-092's role table are updated with it.

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This would be the first list verb nvcre-run-role has ever carried, and three places say otherwise without being on the update list.

run-role.yaml:11 says "None of these resources is listed: the controller reads each one by name." ADR-092:78 made that deliberate: "list is dropped ... The controller never lists any of the four." values.yaml:49 tells the operator "Its reads, its own CRDs and events are granted cluster-wide by nvcre-manager-role", which stops being true once an Event read follows rbac.scope. The pods/log precedent is get only (run-role.yaml:43-45), so it does not cover the verb that is actually new.

I would add the run-role.yaml header and the values.yaml rbac: preamble to this bullet's update list, and say here why list is acceptable: the read is uncached, so it starts no informer and does not reopen #424.

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Good catch, thanks. The bullet now says outright that this is the first list verb nvcre-run-role carries, against ADR-092's choice to drop list. It also explains why that's acceptable here: the read goes through r.APIReader, so it's uncached, starts no informer, needs no watch and doesn't reopen #424, and each call is one namespaced list filtered to one pod. The update list now includes the run-role.yaml:11 header comment and the rbac: preamble at values.yaml:50. I've reworded the preamble so events stay with nvcre-manager-role only for the recorder's create and patch. It also includes ADR-092's role table and its "list is dropped" bullet. While checking I found two more places that describe the run role as writes plus pods/log: ADR-000's Controller Patterns paragraph (000-adr.md:398) and the RBAC pitfall in AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md (line 141). Both are on the list now too.

- `podsNotReadyMessage(pod, events)`, a pure function that applies decision 3's order and the 1 KiB cap. The Event read sits in a small `unhealthyEvents(ctx, pod)` helper over `r.APIReader`.
- In the `default` (running) branch, after the stall check: the final `setJobInProgress` takes its reason and message from the not-ready result, and one extra mutation sets or clears `workloadPodsNotReadySince` next to the existing `workloadStartTime` stamp. The Warning Event is emitted when the reason moves to `WorkloadPodsNotReady`.
- `restartFromCheckpoint` clears the marker with `workloadStartTime`.
- `+kubebuilder:rbac:groups="",resources=events,verbs=get;list`, for the record only.

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get looks unused. Decision 3 specifies a field-selected EventList, nothing in the record reads an Event by name, and no name is available to read by. Drop get from the marker and from the rule at line 64, or add a sentence saying why it is kept.

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Right, nothing reads an Event by name, and there's no name to read by. I dropped get from the marker (now verbs=list), from the run-role.yaml rule, and from the Consequences line that said the role gains get and list. The rule bullet now has one sentence saying why it is list only.

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Decision 4: Jobs whose worker runs the sshd install set
schedulingStallGraceSeconds to 1020, covering the three NCCL entries
that render mpi-worker-sshd-args.yaml and MPI WorkloadRuns built via
BuildMPIRuntime, with a test next to TestSSHDWorkerInvariants. The
default stays at 5 minutes and the cost is recorded in Consequences.

Decision 1: a candidate pod whose waiting reasons are only
ContainerCreating, PodInitializing or empty is still starting and does
not count. Other waiting reasons, or a running container that is not
Ready, count, timed per pod.

Also takes the three inline notes: keep the existing message when the
same pod is still Running, state that list on nvcre-run-role is new and
uncached, and drop the unused get. Citations re-pointed to current main.

Signed-off-by: Anpoo Sivanadi <[email protected]>
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Thanks for checking it again against the moved main. You're right that the ADR text hadn't changed since your first review. 8410974c answers both questions in the record and also takes the three inline notes. Since #529 and #555 moved some lines, I re-pointed the citations to current main: job_controller.go:1112 for the JobPods read, :879 and :928 for the ADR-083 return and the workloadStartTime stamp, podread.go:180, cache.go:378, and trainjob.go:197-209 for GetStatus.

Decision 4, the grace against the sshd retry path. Yes, the intent is that a Job that installs sshd widens the field itself, and the record now names which ones. Every Job whose worker runs sshdInstallCommand sets schedulingStallGraceSeconds: 1020. That is the 16 minute worst case at pkg/platform/runtime.go:405, plus one 30s probe period and a margin. There are two places:

  1. The three entries that render _lib/nccl/mpi-worker-sshd-args.yaml: nccl-all-gather, nccl-all-reduce and nccl-alltoall (line 31 of each), set in their jobTemplate.spec.
  2. A WorkloadRun whose runtime comes from BuildMPIRuntime (workloadrun_controller.go:572), set on the JobSpec it builds at :747. The catalog alone would miss that path.

A check next to TestSSHDWorkerInvariants will fail for a worker that runs the install in a Job with a smaller grace, so a new entry can't ship without it. After 1020s the install has either finished or hit exit 1, so anything still not Ready is what the detector should report.

I didn't change the default. A 17 minute default would also delay images that ship sshd, and it would delay every ADR-083 report. The cost of doing it per Job is real, and the record now lists it under Consequences: on those three entries and on MPI WorkloadRuns, an unschedulable workload is reported after 17 minutes instead of 5. ADR-083 pauses the clock from the first observation, so no budget is lost, only the earlier report. If that turns out to matter, the separate grace field is still listed under Alternatives as the way out. I also looked at excluding the install phase. Nothing on the pod tells an install in progress apart from an sshd that can't serve sessions, and moving the install to an init container would change the layout ADR-093 pins.

Decision 1, still starting versus stuck. A slow first pull shouldn't be an episode. The record now uses the kubelet's own waiting reasons to tell the two apart. A candidate pod (the same four conditions as before) is still starting, and doesn't count, while nothing in it is running and every waiting reason is ContainerCreating, PodInitializing or empty. Those are the constants the kubelet reports while it pulls and sets up the sandbox (upstream pkg/kubelet/kubelet_pods.go). So a long pull never opens an episode, even though GetStatus returns WorkloadRunning before any pod exists. A pod counts in one of two cases:

  1. Stuck waiting, on any other reason, such as ErrImagePull, ImagePullBackOff, CreateContainerConfigError or CrashLoopBackOff. Its grace runs from workloadPodsNotReadySince.
  2. Started but not Ready, meaning an init container or a not-ready container is running. Its grace runs from that container's own state.running.startedAt.

The per-pod start time is also what makes 1020s hold for a gang. On a node that already has the image cached, the worker starts installing minutes before one that is still pulling 20 GB, and a single Job-level window would charge the late pod for the early one's head start. The tradeoff is in Notes. A pod that sits in ContainerCreating for good, such as a volume that never mounts, still waits out timeoutPerJob as it does today. The Testing plan gains cases for ContainerCreating, PodInitializing, a running container on each side of grace, and two pods started minutes apart.

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