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What this PR does / why we need it:
Introduces a new blog post and a comprehensive lab guide on implementing soft-slicing with Volcano and HAMi-core on Ascend vNPU. Removes outdated event landing pages and updates existing content for clarity.

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  • npm run lint and npm run format:check pass
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  • Chinese translation updated if English docs changed (or noted why not)
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Documentation

  • Added an advanced Lab 13 tutorial for configuring and validating Volcano scheduling with Ascend vNPU soft slicing.
  • Added deployment examples for scheduler configuration, device setup, vNPU workloads, binpacking, monitoring, troubleshooting, and cleanup.
  • Added English and Chinese blog posts covering configuration, verification, and operational guidance.
  • Added related documentation tags and tutorial navigation entries.
  • Marked selected meetup articles as unlisted.

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  • Removed outdated COSCUP 2026 and Open Source Summit Korea event landing pages.

…rce Summit Korea

Signed-off-by: Jimmy Song <jimmy@dynamia.ai>
- Introduced new YAML configurations for HAMi device plugin and vNPU Pods.
- Created a comprehensive lab guide detailing the setup and verification of soft-slicing with Volcano and HAMi-core.
- Updated the overview to include Lab 13, highlighting its focus on building Volcano and ascend-device-plugin from source on Ascend 310P3 ARM servers.

Signed-off-by: Jimmy Song <jimmy@dynamia.ai>
…AMi-core soft slicing

Signed-off-by: Jimmy Song <jimmy@dynamia.ai>
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The PR adds bilingual Volcano HAMi-core Ascend vNPU soft-slicing documentation, a complete Lab 13 tutorial with Kubernetes examples, tutorial navigation and tags, and unlists three older blog posts. It also removes two event landing pages.

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Ascend vNPU documentation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Architecture and technical article
blog/volcano-ascend-vnpu-soft-slicing/index.md, i18n/zh/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/volcano-ascend-vnpu-soft-slicing/index.md, i18n/zh/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/tags.yml
Adds bilingual coverage of vNPU slicing, Volcano scheduling modes, HAMi-core integration, deployment, verification, metrics, troubleshooting, and related links.
Lab prerequisites and component builds
tutorials/labs/volcano-ascend-vnpu.md, i18n/zh/docusaurus-plugin-content-docs-tutorials/current/labs/volcano-ascend-vnpu.md
Documents environment checks, cleanup, Volcano compilation, Ascend device-plugin image preparation, driver compatibility, image packaging, and containerd import.
Scheduler and device-plugin deployment
tutorials/labs/examples/13-volcano-ascend-vnpu/*, tutorials/labs/volcano-ascend-vnpu.md
Adds Volcano and HAMi ConfigMaps, test Pod manifests, deviceshare configuration, Ascend RuntimeClass setup, and device-plugin deployment steps.
Workload validation and tutorial wiring
tutorials/labs/volcano-ascend-vnpu.md, i18n/zh/docusaurus-plugin-content-docs-tutorials/current/overview.md, i18n/zh/docusaurus-plugin-content-docs-tutorials/current/tags.yml, sidebars-tutorials.js, tutorials/overview.md
Documents memory isolation, binpack co-location, metrics, troubleshooting, cleanup, and results. Registers Lab 13 in tutorial navigation and metadata.

The coscup-2026 and opensource-summit-korea landing pages were deleted. Three Chinese HAMi meetup posts were marked unlisted.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 455d1

The PR adds runnable Ascend/Volcano tutorial examples with a small reported-memory inconsistency and Pods that lack baseline privilege restrictions. These bounded risks warrant owner follow-up, but the PR remains mergeable with explicit awareness.

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Inline comments:
In
`@tutorials/labs/examples/13-volcano-ascend-vnpu/02-hami-device-node-config.yaml`:
- Line 18: Update the vDeviceCount setting in the Ascend 310P3 device-node
configuration from 8 to 7, matching the driver’s maximum supported vNPUs per
card.

In `@tutorials/labs/examples/13-volcano-ascend-vnpu/03-ascend-vnpu-check.yaml`:
- Around line 11-18: Restrict both validation Pods by adding the same container
security context to the npu containers in
tutorials/labs/examples/13-volcano-ascend-vnpu/03-ascend-vnpu-check.yaml lines
11-18 and
tutorials/labs/examples/13-volcano-ascend-vnpu/04-ascend-vnpu-check-2.yaml lines
12-19: disable privilege escalation and configure a non-root UID that retains
the required Ascend device permissions.

In `@tutorials/labs/volcano-ascend-vnpu.md`:
- Around line 731-741: In tutorials/labs/volcano-ascend-vnpu.md lines 731-741,
revise the “Isolation is enforced per container” claim and evidence to state
only quota visibility/configuration, unless adding a workload allocation test
that demonstrates enforcement. Apply the identical evidence or wording change in
i18n/zh/docusaurus-plugin-content-docs-tutorials/current/labs/volcano-ascend-vnpu.md
lines 731-741; keep both translations consistent.
- Around line 361-365: Use a stable WEBSITE_ROOT (or return to the website
checkout) for manifest paths in tutorials/labs/volcano-ascend-vnpu.md at lines
361-365, 444, 521, and 612, and apply the same fix at the corresponding lines in
i18n/zh/docusaurus-plugin-content-docs-tutorials/current/labs/volcano-ascend-vnpu.md.
Ensure all scheduler and lab manifest commands resolve from the website checkout
regardless of the current directory.
- Around line 101-102: Update the label-inspection commands using kubectl at
tutorials/labs/volcano-ascend-vnpu.md lines 101-102 and
i18n/zh/docusaurus-plugin-content-docs-tutorials/current/labs/volcano-ascend-vnpu.md
lines 101-102 to use JSON-producing output, such as -o json or -o
jsonpath-as-json, so python3 -m json.tool can parse the result; apply the same
correction to the commands at lines 558-559 in both files.
- Around line 219-220: Update the kubectl download URL in both
tutorials/labs/volcano-ascend-vnpu.md (lines 219-220) and
i18n/zh/docusaurus-plugin-content-docs-tutorials/current/labs/volcano-ascend-vnpu.md
(lines 219-220) from v1.31.0 to v1.28.15, leaving the surrounding installation
commands unchanged.
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containers:
- name: npu
image: quay.io/ascend/vllm-ascend:v0.18.0-310p
command: ["sleep", "infinity"]
resources:
limits:
huawei.com/Ascend310P: "1"
huawei.com/Ascend310P-memory: "8192"

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Restrict both validation Pods. Both manifests allow privilege escalation and can run as root. These tutorial manifests are copy-pasteable cluster workloads.

  • tutorials/labs/examples/13-volcano-ascend-vnpu/03-ascend-vnpu-check.yaml#L11-L18: Add securityContext.allowPrivilegeEscalation: false. Run as a non-root UID that has required Ascend device permissions.
  • tutorials/labs/examples/13-volcano-ascend-vnpu/04-ascend-vnpu-check-2.yaml#L12-L19: Apply the same container security context.
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[medium] 2-18: Minimize the admission of root containers

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In `@tutorials/labs/examples/13-volcano-ascend-vnpu/03-ascend-vnpu-check.yaml`
around lines 11 - 18, Restrict both validation Pods by adding the same container
security context to the npu containers in
tutorials/labs/examples/13-volcano-ascend-vnpu/03-ascend-vnpu-check.yaml lines
11-18 and
tutorials/labs/examples/13-volcano-ascend-vnpu/04-ascend-vnpu-check-2.yaml lines
12-19: disable privilege escalation and configure a non-root UID that retains
the required Ascend device permissions.

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…310P3

- Adjusted vDeviceCount in the device node config from 8 to 7 to match the physical card capacity.
- Updated lab documentation to reflect the use of Volcano master and ascend-device-plugin v1.4.0.
- Changed instructions for pulling the ascend-device-plugin image and clarified asset verification steps.
- Revised commands and notes for deploying Volcano and configuring the HAMi-mode deviceshare.
- Ensured consistency in references to the plugin and its components throughout the documentation.

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In `@blog/volcano-ascend-vnpu-soft-slicing/index.md`:
- Line 176: Reconcile the allocatable-memory values throughout the document:
replace the repeated 43,054 MiB value with the evidence-backed total of 43,050
MiB, or explain the 4 MiB discrepancy wherever 43,054 MiB is intentionally
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@rootsongjc rootsongjc changed the title Add blog post and lab guide for Volcano + HAMi-core soft slicing docs: add blog post and lab guide for Volcano + HAMi-core soft slicing Aug 18, 2026

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