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7 changes: 4 additions & 3 deletions src/compute-plane-services/nvsnap/CONTRIBUTING.md
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Expand Up @@ -18,10 +18,11 @@ The criu-v2 engine builds from public inputs only:
in the base image's `cuda-cli-builder` stage, on the public CUDA driver
checkpoint API (`cuCheckpointProcess*`, driver 570+ at runtime). Works for
x86-64 and arm64 - no committed binaries.
- The Go agent and `nvsnap_cr.so`: this repository.
- The Go agent: this repository.

The legacy LD_PRELOAD injection stack (patched uvloop/libuv/libzmq) is not used
by criu-v2 and is not required to build.
The legacy LD_PRELOAD injection stack (patched uvloop/libuv/libzmq plus the
interception library) was removed once criu-v2 replaced it. The implementation
is preserved at the tag `archive/nvsnap-injection-stack`.

## Build

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9 changes: 2 additions & 7 deletions src/compute-plane-services/nvsnap/README.md
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Expand Up @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ workload:
A node-level **agent** (DaemonSet) performs capture/restore using
`/proc` + cgroup inspection — runtime-agnostic, not tied to any container
runtime API. A **server** provides a REST API, web UI, and checkpoint
catalog. An optional **admission webhook** auto-injects restore plumbing
catalog. An optional **admission webhook** injects restore plumbing

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git show c3e9ba93dadc4d71d400c925676fc53ad102c491:src/compute-plane-services/nvsnap/deploy/helm/nvsnap/templates/agent-daemonset.yaml | rg -n -C 7 'inject|init-image|libuv|pyzmq|nvsnap'
git show c3e9ba93dadc4d71d400c925676fc53ad102c491:src/compute-plane-services/nvsnap/cmd/agent/main.go | rg -n -C 5 'auto.inject|AutoInject|init.image'
git show c3e9ba93dadc4d71d400c925676fc53ad102c491:src/compute-plane-services/nvsnap/internal/agent/webhook_integration.go | rg -n -C 6 'AutoInject|auto.inject'

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set -eu
base=c3e9ba93dadc4d71d400c925676fc53ad102c491
for spec in \
  "src/compute-plane-services/nvsnap/cmd/agent/main.go" \
  "src/compute-plane-services/nvsnap/deploy/helm/nvsnap/templates/agent-daemonset.yaml" \
  "src/compute-plane-services/nvsnap/internal/agent/webhook_integration.go" \
  "src/compute-plane-services/nvsnap/internal/webhook/mutate.go"; do
  echo "===== $spec (base) ====="
  git show "$base:$spec" | nl -ba | sed -n '1,240p' | rg -n -C 8 'flag\.Parse|Parse\(|Args|AutoInject|webhook-image|Mutator|autoInjectPatches|NewMutator|config\.Webhook|args:|builder\.image'
done
echo "===== relevant base Helm values/defaults ====="
git ls-tree -r --name-only "$base" src/compute-plane-services/nvsnap/deploy/helm/nvsnap | rg 'values|agent-daemonset|webhook'
for f in $(git ls-tree -r --name-only "$base" src/compute-plane-services/nvsnap/deploy/helm/nvsnap | rg 'values'); do
  echo "--- $f ---"
  git show "$base:$f" | nl -ba | rg -n -C 5 'uvloop|libuv|libzmq|builder|webhook|agent:'
done

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Confirm migration for separately configured auto-injection deployments.

The base Helm chart passes the four image references as positional arguments, but the agent declares them as --webhook-image-* flags. Normal chart deployment therefore leaves config.Webhook.AutoInject empty, so annotated pods do not receive auto-injection. Separately configured agents that pass these flags can still serve the documented nvsnap.io/auto-inject contract.

Before removing this path, confirm that those customer or BYOC deployments and workloads are migrated.

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In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvsnap/README.md` at line 47, Align the base Helm
chart’s four image arguments with the agent’s --webhook-image-* flags so
config.Webhook.AutoInject is populated and annotated pods receive
auto-injection. Preserve the nvsnap.io/auto-inject contract for separately
configured deployments until their migration is confirmed.

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Agreed on the distinction, and it is a fair correction to how I worded the PR.
The claim that holds is narrower than "non-functional": it is non-functional for
any deployment produced by this repository. An agent started by hand with the
four --webhook-image-* flags set would serve the annotation contract.

What I can verify here, I have:

  • Nothing in the repository passes those flags. The only occurrences of
    webhook-image- on main are the four flag.StringVar declarations
    themselves. The chart and both DaemonSet manifests pass the images as bare
    positional arguments, and nothing reads flag.Args().
  • nvsnap.io/auto-inject appears nowhere in docs/ or fern/, so it is not a
    documented public surface, and nothing outside the nvsnap subtree references
    it.

What I cannot verify from here is whether some out-of-band deployment sets the
flags explicitly. That confirmation is already requested in the PR description
and is the one open item on this change. Worth noting the failure mode if such a
deployment does exist: removal makes the annotation silently inert rather than an
error, so the pod would start without the injected stack instead of failing
loudly. If that risk is judged material, the cheap mitigation is to keep the
annotation recognised for one release and log a warning when it is set, rather
than to keep the stack.

Flagging for whoever owns BYOC onboarding rather than resolving it myself.

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@balajinvda, thanks for clarifying. I agree that repository-produced deployments did not activate auto-injection. The remaining concern is limited to agents configured outside this repository.

The PR description identifies confirmation with BYOC onboarding as an open item. I’ll leave this thread open for that confirmation. If those deployments exist, the annotation could become silently inert after removal. A warning for one release is a reasonable mitigation if the owner judges that risk material. I am not asking to restore the image-flag wiring.

You are interacting with an AI system.

into workload pods.

Deeper design docs:
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -172,8 +172,7 @@ optional webhook). Full guide, options, and troubleshooting:
│ └─ peer-cascade HTTP server │
│ │
│ GPU Pod (unmodified image) │
│ ├─ NIM / vLLM / SGLang / TRT-LLM │
│ └─ libnvsnap_intercept.so (PRELOAD) │
│ └─ NIM / vLLM / SGLang / TRT-LLM │
└───────────────────────────────────────┘
│
L1 same-node ─► L2 shared PVC ─► L3 object store
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- **go-criu RPC, not CLI CRIU** — engines like vLLM run 900+ threads; CLI
CRIU's per-thread ptrace detach takes minutes and often hangs, while RPC
is seconds regardless of thread count.
- **`libnvsnap_intercept.so` (LD_PRELOAD)** — `io_uring` (via uvloop/libuv)
and `libzmq` epoll don't survive CRIU restore cleanly. Rather than fork
every engine, the library reinitializes them on a restore marker.
- **Forked CRIU** — 26 patches for Kubernetes container support, io_uring,
and the CUDA plugin. See [docs/THIRD-PARTY-FORKS.md](docs/THIRD-PARTY-FORKS.md).

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -257,7 +253,6 @@ The full endpoint list (including agent-side cascade endpoints) is in
```text
cmd/ binary entry points (agent, server, restore-entrypoint, gpu-restore, CLI)
internal/ agent, server, webhook, CRIU, checkpointstore (Go)
lib/nvsnap_intercept/ LD_PRELOAD interception library (C)
deploy/helm/nvsnap/ Helm chart
deploy/k8s/ manifests + sample workloads
docker/ Dockerfiles
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#
# <component> is one of:
# base server blobstore l2-wait # self-contained / CRIU
# uvloop libzmq libuv pyzmq # dependency builders (clone forks)
# agent init # layer on the base + dep images
#
# Tags come from scripts/versions.sh (the single source of truth). The
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push_img "$base_img"
;;

# ── dependency builders (context = the cloned fork) ─────────────────
uvloop)
img="$REG/uvloop-builder:$NVSNAP_UVLOOP_VERSION"
if [ "${NO_SKIP:-0}" != "1" ] && exists "$img"; then echo "[build-image] $img exists; skipping."; exit 0; fi
guard_ref NVSNAP_UVLOOP_REF "$NVSNAP_UVLOOP_REF"
tmp="$(mktemp -d)"; trap 'rm -rf "$tmp"' EXIT
clone_fork "$tmp/src" "$NVSNAP_UVLOOP_REPO" "$NVSNAP_UVLOOP_REF"
bud -f "$ROOT/docker/uvloop/Dockerfile" -t "$img" "$tmp/src"
push_img "$img"
;;
libzmq)
img="$REG/libzmq-builder:$NVSNAP_LIBZMQ_VERSION"
if [ "${NO_SKIP:-0}" != "1" ] && exists "$img"; then echo "[build-image] $img exists; skipping."; exit 0; fi
guard_ref NVSNAP_LIBZMQ_REF "$NVSNAP_LIBZMQ_REF"
tmp="$(mktemp -d)"; trap 'rm -rf "$tmp"' EXIT
clone_fork "$tmp/src" "$NVSNAP_LIBZMQ_REPO" "$NVSNAP_LIBZMQ_REF"
bud -f "$ROOT/docker/libzmq/Dockerfile" -t "$img" "$tmp/src"
push_img "$img"
;;
libuv)
img="$REG/libuv-builder:$NVSNAP_LIBUV_VERSION"
if [ "${NO_SKIP:-0}" != "1" ] && exists "$img"; then echo "[build-image] $img exists; skipping."; exit 0; fi
guard_ref NVSNAP_LIBUV_REF "$NVSNAP_LIBUV_REF"
tmp="$(mktemp -d)"; trap 'rm -rf "$tmp"' EXIT
clone_fork "$tmp/src" "$NVSNAP_LIBUV_REPO" "$NVSNAP_LIBUV_REF"
bud -f "$ROOT/docker/libuv/Dockerfile" -t "$img" "$tmp/src"
push_img "$img"
;;
pyzmq)
# pyzmq builds against the libzmq source: context holds both
# libzmq-src/ and pyzmq-src/ (see docker/pyzmq/Dockerfile).
img="$REG/pyzmq-builder:$NVSNAP_PYZMQ_VERSION"
if [ "${NO_SKIP:-0}" != "1" ] && exists "$img"; then echo "[build-image] $img exists; skipping."; exit 0; fi
guard_ref NVSNAP_PYZMQ_REF "$NVSNAP_PYZMQ_REF"
guard_ref NVSNAP_LIBZMQ_REF "$NVSNAP_LIBZMQ_REF"
tmp="$(mktemp -d)"; trap 'rm -rf "$tmp"' EXIT
clone_fork "$tmp/pyzmq-src" "$NVSNAP_PYZMQ_REPO" "$NVSNAP_PYZMQ_REF"
clone_fork "$tmp/libzmq-src" "$NVSNAP_LIBZMQ_REPO" "$NVSNAP_LIBZMQ_REF"
bud -f "$ROOT/docker/pyzmq/Dockerfile" -t "$img" "$tmp"
push_img "$img"
;;

# ── agent: app layer over base + dep images (context = repo root) ───
agent)
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trap 'rm -f "$ROOT/cuda-checkpoint-wrapper.sh"' EXIT
bud -f docker/agent/Dockerfile.app \
--build-arg BASE_IMAGE="$REG/nvsnap-agent-base:$NVSNAP_BASE_VERSION" \
--build-arg UVLOOP_IMAGE="$REG/uvloop-builder:$NVSNAP_UVLOOP_VERSION" \
--build-arg LIBUV_IMAGE="$REG/libuv-builder:$NVSNAP_LIBUV_VERSION" \
--build-arg LIBZMQ_IMAGE="$REG/libzmq-builder:$NVSNAP_LIBZMQ_VERSION" \
-t "$img" .
push_img "$img"
;;

# ── init: assembles dep + agent images (context = repo root) ────────
init)
build "$REG/nvsnap-init:$NVSNAP_INIT_VERSION" \
-f docker/init/Dockerfile \
--build-arg UVLOOP_IMAGE="$REG/uvloop-builder:$NVSNAP_UVLOOP_VERSION" \
--build-arg LIBUV_IMAGE="$REG/libuv-builder:$NVSNAP_LIBUV_VERSION" \
--build-arg LIBZMQ_IMAGE="$REG/libzmq-builder:$NVSNAP_LIBZMQ_VERSION" \
--build-arg PYZMQ_IMAGE="$REG/pyzmq-builder:$NVSNAP_PYZMQ_VERSION" \
--build-arg AGENT_IMAGE="$REG/nvsnap-agent:$NVSNAP_APP_VERSION"
;;

*)
echo "unknown component: $COMPONENT" >&2
exit 2
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flag.StringVar(&config.Webhook.Path, "webhook-path", "/mutate",
"HTTP path the in-agent webhook listens on")

// BYOC auto-inject: image refs the webhook stamps into the four
// init containers when a pod has nvsnap.io/auto-inject: "true". All
// four must be set for the auto-inject branch to fire; otherwise
// the webhook fails open (admits the pod unchanged).
flag.StringVar(&config.Webhook.AutoInject.Uvloop, "webhook-image-uvloop", "", //nolint:staticcheck // deprecated field intentionally bound for flag back-compat
"Image ref for the auto-inject get-uvloop init container (multi-python uvloop wheels)")
flag.StringVar(&config.Webhook.AutoInject.LibUV, "webhook-image-libuv", "",
"Image ref for the auto-inject get-libuv init container")
flag.StringVar(&config.Webhook.AutoInject.LibZMQ, "webhook-image-libzmq", "",
"Image ref for the auto-inject get-libzmq init container")
flag.StringVar(&config.Webhook.AutoInject.Agent, "webhook-image-agent", "",
"Image ref for the auto-inject get-nvsnap init container (nvsnap-agent — must match running agent)")

// nvsnap#147: nvsnap-l2-wait init container ref. When set, the
// webhook prepends a nvsnap-l2-wait init container on restore pods
// that polls nvsnap-server until the L2 PVC promote is ready.
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hostPath mounts from there onto function pods. No
cross-registry mirror required. */ -}}

{{- define "nvsnap.builder.image" -}}
{{- /* args: ctx, name (e.g. "uvloop-builder"). Same mandatory-tag rule
as nvsnap.image — if nvsnap.builderTag is empty the user has to
set it explicitly. */ -}}
{{- $reg := .ctx.Values.nvsnap.imageRegistry -}}
{{- if not .ctx.Values.nvsnap.builderTag -}}
{{- fail (printf "nvsnap.builder.image: nvsnap.builderTag is required (rendering %q)" .name) -}}
{{- end -}}
{{- printf "%s/%s:%s" $reg .name .ctx.Values.nvsnap.builderTag -}}
{{- end }}

{{/*
Image-pull-secrets block, rendered if any are configured. Used at the
PodSpec level (not Deployment-level — Kubernetes requires it on pods).
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- --webhook-mount-prep-init-image={{ .Values.webhook.mountPrepInitImage | default (include "nvsnap.agent.image" .) }}
- --webhook-agent-host-port={{ .Values.webhook.agentHostPort | default 8081 }}
{{- end }}
# BYOC auto-inject: when a pod carries nvsnap.io/auto-inject: "true"
# the webhook stamps in the sitecustomize plumbing using these
# images. All four must be set; the agent image MUST match
# this DaemonSet's image so libnvsnap_intercept.so build-IDs
# line up at restore time.
- {{ include "nvsnap.builder.image" (dict "ctx" . "name" "uvloop-builder") }}
- {{ include "nvsnap.builder.image" (dict "ctx" . "name" "libuv-builder") }}
- {{ include "nvsnap.builder.image" (dict "ctx" . "name" "libzmq-builder") }}
- {{ include "nvsnap.agent.image" . }}
{{- end }}
securityContext:
privileged: true
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imagePullSecrets:
- nvsnap-pull-secret

# Tag used for dependency builder images (uvloop-builder, libuv-builder,
# libzmq-builder). The agent passes these to its in-process webhook so
# it can auto-inject the right init container into BYOC workload pods.
# Must match what's actually been built+pushed to imageRegistry —
# there's no AppVersion fallback (see _helpers.tpl).
builderTag: "v0.0.1"

# ─── NvSnap Agent (DaemonSet on GPU nodes) ───────────────────────────────

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- --webhook-listen=:8443
- --webhook-cert=/etc/nvsnap/webhook/tls.crt
- --webhook-key=/etc/nvsnap/webhook/tls.key
# BYOC auto-inject — when a pod carries
# nvsnap.io/auto-inject: "true", the webhook stamps in
# the sitecustomize plumbing using these images. All four
# must be set or the webhook fails open. Agent image MUST
# match this DaemonSet's container image so the
# libnvsnap_intercept.so build-ID lines up at restore time.
- nvcr.io/0651155215864979/ncp-dev/uvloop-builder:v0.0.1
- nvcr.io/0651155215864979/ncp-dev/libuv-builder:v0.0.1
- nvcr.io/0651155215864979/ncp-dev/libzmq-builder:v0.0.1
- nvcr.io/0651155215864979/ncp-dev/nvsnap-agent:v0.2.42
securityContext:
privileged: true # Required for CRIU and containerd access
env:
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