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Summary

  • Add a standalone DeepSeek-V4-Pro nightly/manual workflow for a dedicated GCP runner label; existing nightly workflows and production runners are unchanged.
  • Deploy the upstream GB200 recipe with only the GCP shared-cache, Arm toleration, and same-NVLink-clique adaptations.
  • Run a small AIPerf smoke (concurrency 1, 128 input tokens, 16 output tokens), upload diagnostics/results, and clean up the isolated namespace.
  • Keep scheduled execution gated by DEEPSEEK_V4_PRO_NIGHTLY_ENABLED until the dedicated runner is provisioned.

Validation

  • actionlint and shellcheck
  • python3 scripts/check_action_pins.py
  • Kustomize render plus GCP server-side dry-run for the deployment and benchmark Job
  • Isolated live run created the namespace, bound the shared cache, and admitted the upstream DGD/ComputeDomain. It was stopped before workload start because no four unreserved GB200 nodes were available in one clique; reserved Pinedrift nodes were not used. Cleanup completed.

Related Issues

  • Linear: OPS-8599
  • Confirmed — no related GitHub issue

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added automated DeepSeek V4 Pro deployment and smoke-test configurations.
    • Added scheduled and manually triggered nightly validation with isolated environments.
    • Added support for shared model-cache storage and GPU-aware workload placement.
    • Added configurable smoke-test parameters, including timeouts, concurrency, and benchmark settings.
    • Added automatic collection of test results and diagnostics for failed runs.
  • Chores

    • Updated CI path filtering and runner validation to recognize the new workflows.

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Adds DeepSeek V4 Pro deployment and smoke-test manifests, a Kubernetes execution script, and a scheduled or manually triggered workflow. The changes also update CI path matching and the accepted nightly runner label.

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DeepSeek V4 Pro nightly smoke testing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Deployment and smoke manifests
.github/ci/deepseek-v4-pro/deploy/kustomization.yaml, .github/ci/deepseek-v4-pro/smoke/kustomization.yaml
Adds GB200 deployment patches and benchmark settings for shared model-cache storage, GPU-clique placement, scheduling, timeouts, and smoke-test inputs.
Smoke-test execution and cleanup
.github/scripts/run_deepseek_v4_pro_smoke.sh
Adds namespace creation, token secret generation, PVC and deployment readiness checks, benchmark execution, diagnostics, artifact collection, and cleanup.
Nightly workflow wiring
.github/workflows/deepseek-v4-pro-nightly.yml, .github/filters.yaml, .github/actionlint.yaml
Adds scheduled and manual workflow execution on the dedicated runner, artifact upload, CI path matching, and the accepted runner label.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 10357

The new smoke workflow cannot reach its workload readiness check, and it can report success without benchmark results. Correct both checks before relying on this workflow.

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In @.github/scripts/run_deepseek_v4_pro_smoke.sh:
- Around line 149-150: Make artifact collection fail the smoke when kubectl cp
fails by removing the failure suppression after the kubectl cp invocation. After
copying, validate that the expected AIPerf artifact directory exists, using the
existing ARTIFACT_DIR path, and print an error to stderr followed by a nonzero
exit when it is missing.
- Around line 121-138: Update both Kubernetes pod selectors in the worker-count
loop and PodScheduled wait to use the legacy label
nvidia.com/dynamo-component-type=worker instead of the prefill/decode selector,
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  • .github/actionlint.yaml
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Comment thread .github/scripts/run_deepseek_v4_pro_smoke.sh
Comment on lines +149 to +150
"${KUBECTL[@]}" -n "${NAMESPACE}" cp \
"${pod}:/tmp/aiperf/." "${ARTIFACT_DIR}/" || true

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

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🏁 Script executed:

sed -n '1,190p' .github/scripts/run_deepseek_v4_pro_smoke.sh
sed -n '1,120p' .github/ci/deepseek-v4-pro/smoke/kustomization.yaml
sed -n '1,100p' .github/workflows/deepseek-v4-pro-nightly.yml
sed -n '1,180p' recipes/deepseek-v4/deepseek-v4-pro/vllm/disagg/gb200/perf.yaml

Repository: ai-dynamo/dynamo

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🏁 Script executed:

nl -ba .github/scripts/run_deepseek_v4_pro_smoke.sh | sed -n '140,160p'
nl -ba .github/ci/deepseek-v4-pro/smoke/kustomization.yaml | sed -n '10,35p'
nl -ba .github/workflows/deepseek-v4-pro-nightly.yml | sed -n '25,55p'

Repository: ai-dynamo/dynamo

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Fail when benchmark artifact collection fails.

Line 150 suppresses kubectl cp failures. Job completion does not guarantee that the AIPerf results were copied to the runner. The workflow only warns when no upload files exist, so the smoke can succeed without the expected results.

Remove || true and verify the expected artifact directory:

Proposed fix
-    "${pod}:/tmp/aiperf/." "${ARTIFACT_DIR}/" || true
+    "${pod}:/tmp/aiperf/." "${ARTIFACT_DIR}/"
+[[ -d "${ARTIFACT_DIR}/deepseek-v4-pro-smoke/c1" ]] || {
+    echo "AIPerf artifacts were not collected" >&2
+    exit 1
+}
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"${KUBECTL[@]}" -n "${NAMESPACE}" cp \
"${pod}:/tmp/aiperf/." "${ARTIFACT_DIR}/" || true
"${KUBECTL[@]}" -n "${NAMESPACE}" cp \
"${pod}:/tmp/aiperf/." "${ARTIFACT_DIR}/"
[[ -d "${ARTIFACT_DIR}/deepseek-v4-pro-smoke/c1" ]] || {
echo "AIPerf artifacts were not collected" >&2
exit 1
}
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In @.github/scripts/run_deepseek_v4_pro_smoke.sh around lines 149 - 150, Make
artifact collection fail the smoke when kubectl cp fails by removing the failure
suppression after the kubectl cp invocation. After copying, validate that the
expected AIPerf artifact directory exists, using the existing ARTIFACT_DIR path,
and print an error to stderr followed by a nonzero exit when it is missing.

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[P1] The results copy can never work, so the smoke test uploads no AIPerf data. .github/scripts/run_deepseek_v4_pro_smoke.sh:149. Line 141 waits for the Job to finish, so the pod is always in phase Succeeded, and kubectl cp cannot enter a finished pod. Removing || true alone will turn the nightly red every run. Please keep the results on the mounted PVC.

Measured, with a running-pod control

I copied the shape of the rendered smoke Job into a test Job. It uses restartPolicy: Never and the image python:3.12-slim, and it writes results under /tmp/aiperf/. I then ran the exact sequence from lines 141 to 150. The control copies from a pod that is still running.

pod phase kubectl cp exit files copied
Succeeded (subject, the state line 141 waits for) 1 0
Running (control, same image, same path, same command) 0 1

The subject prints:

error: cannot exec into a container in a completed pod; current phase is Succeeded

I got the same result with client v1.31.5 and with client v1.36.3, against server v1.31.5. The failure comes from the API server, not from the client version.

Three things make the miss silent:

  1. || true turns exit 1 into exit 0. I measured rc=0 after it.
  2. .github/ci/deepseek-v4-pro/smoke/kustomization.yaml:35-36 moves ARTIFACT_ROOT to /tmp/aiperf/deepseek-v4-pro-smoke. Upstream recipes/deepseek-v4/deepseek-v4-pro/vllm/disagg/gb200/perf.yaml:47-48 writes under /opt/models, which is the model-cache PVC. The overlay moves the results off the PVC, so the failed copy is the only way out of the pod.
  3. kubectl logs at line 145 still works on a finished pod. So aiperf.log and the diagnostics files do land in the artifact directory, and if-no-files-found: warn stays quiet.

Every run uploads the log and the diagnostics, and never the AIPerf results.

I am not posting a suggestion block, because the obvious one is wrong. If you only drop || true, the copy still fails and the job goes red every night.

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Review of the DeepSeek V4 Pro nightly smoke

Hold. One P1 and two P3. The P1 is a reply on the existing CodeRabbit thread, because that thread already raised the line.

I also retracted one of the two CodeRabbit findings. The pod selector in this pull request is correct, and the suggested change to =worker selects zero pods. That reply carries the measurement.

What I checked and what came back clean

Both kustomizations render. kubectl kustomize --load-restrictor=LoadRestrictionsNone exits 0 for deploy and for smoke. Every JSON patch target resolves, the affinity and toleration additions land, and the PVC name replacement reaches all four places. The strategic merge on the Job replaces the four environment values and the claim name without adding a second container or a second volume.

The image the recipe names resolves. nvcr.io/nvidia/ai-dynamo/vllm-runtime:1.2.0-deepseek-v4-cuda13-dev.3 returns HTTP 200 from the registry, and a deliberately bogus tag returns HTTP 404.

The filter change is sound. The repository's own node test-filters.js passes 71 of 71 on the head tree and on the base tree. The coverage mode lists 18 uncovered files, all of them pre-existing, and none from this pull request.

CODEOWNERS needs no change. who_owns.py routes all three new paths to @ai-dynamo/dynamo-ops-codeowners through the existing .github/ entry. python3 scripts/check_action_pins.py exits 0.

kubectl wait --for=condition=Ready dynamographdeployment/... at line 137 has a real condition to match. The operator sets a condition of type Ready at deploy/operator/internal/controller/dgd_workload_program.go:131 and :172.

The secret does reach the right namespace. kubectl create secret -n NS --dry-run=client -o yaml writes metadata.namespace into the manifest. The apply at line 102 carries no -n, but it still lands in the test namespace. On a cluster I made sure that default stays empty.

The pull-request/14893 mirror branch exists and points at the head commit, so the matrix has run. No check is red.

One thing I looked at and dropped. Nothing pre-merge renders the two new kustomizations. Recipe Check is gated on the examples filter, which .github/ci/** does not set, and it skipped on this pull request. A rename under recipes/deepseek-v4/ will break the nightly with no pre-merge signal. It is a real gap, but it is thin next to the P1, so I am only noting it here.

# dispatch remains available for bring-up on the dedicated runner.
if: github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' || vars.DEEPSEEK_V4_PRO_NIGHTLY_ENABLED == 'true'
runs-on: dynamo-gcp-dev-02-nightly-v1
timeout-minutes: 150

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[P3] The job timeout leaves no room for the waits inside the script. .github/workflows/deepseek-v4-pro-nightly.yml:24. The five waits in the script add up to exactly 150 minutes, which is the value of timeout-minutes. A slow run dies on the runner timeout instead of the script's own message. Please raise the job timeout.

The budget, added up from the script defaults

The waits run one after another, so they add.

step default minutes
PVC_TIMEOUT_SECONDS at line 15 300 5
worker-count loop at lines 121 to 127, 60 turns of sleep 5 300s 5
SCHEDULING_TIMEOUT at line 13 10m 10
DEPLOY_TIMEOUT at line 12 100m 100
PERF_TIMEOUT at line 14 30m 30
total 150
timeout-minutes at line 24 of the workflow 150
headroom 0

DEPLOY_TIMEOUT is not padding. The startup probe in the recipe allows failureThreshold: 540 at periodSeconds: 10, which is 5400 seconds, or 90 minutes, at recipes/deepseek-v4/deepseek-v4-pro/vllm/disagg/gb200/deploy.yaml:68-74. A first launch can genuinely use most of the 100 minutes.

Nothing is left for checkout, image pulls, the two kubectl kustomize renders, diagnostics collection, or the namespace delete in cleanup.

"${KUBECTL[@]}" label namespace "${NAMESPACE}" \
app.kubernetes.io/managed-by=github-actions \
app.kubernetes.io/name=deepseek-v4-pro-smoke \
ops.nvidia.com/issue=OPS-8599 \

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[P3] An internal ticket ID goes into a Kubernetes label. .github/scripts/run_deepseek_v4_pro_smoke.sh:91. .ai/linear-ticket-refs.md says that source code which ships to main must not carry internal Linear IDs, and it exempts only Markdown. No pre-commit hook catches this. Please drop the ops.nvidia.com/issue label, or use a GitHub issue number.

Measured: the rule is real, unenforced, and this is the only label value carrying an ID

.ai/linear-ticket-refs.md is explicit. Internal IDs are unresolvable for external readers, the rule applies to anything that ships to main, and only *.md is exempt. Bare IDs stay fine in the pull request title and body, which is where this one already appears.

I read every hook id in .pre-commit-config.yaml. None of them checks for ticket references, so nothing fails today.

I also counted how common this already is. My first count was wrong, because I used \b in a pattern that git grep -E reads as POSIX, where \b has no meaning. With a POSIX-safe pattern the real counts are:

tree matches outside Markdown
merge base 13ca6fd 39
head 1035796 40

So this is a nit, not a new precedent. The existing 39 are all comments and docstrings. This one is different in kind. It is a label value written onto a live namespace. The ID therefore appears in cluster metadata as well as in the file.

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