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Slice 7 of 8 of #17615, which stays open as the complete, CI-validated source of truth for the Multi-Cluster Services (KEP-1645) port. Review this PR for the three docs-site pages and the navigation entries; the other slices are listed under Issues and Ongoing Work.

Three pages for three readers: the Kubernetes-tab deployment guide (install the chart, export a Service, verify the import, run the Global Discovery Service in --pool-discovery mcs mode), the configuration reference (flags, metrics, labels, conditions of the three binaries), and the developer-guide design page for the registry (consistency model, merge rules, leases, DynamoDB layout). The pool relay page gains one cross-link.

Key Changes

  • Add docs/fern/pages/kubernetes/kv-aware-routing/multi-cluster-services.md (deployment guide).
  • Add docs/fern/pages/reference/components/global-discovery-mcs-configuration.md (reference).
  • Add docs/fern/pages/developer-guide/knowledge-base/modular-components/router/multi-cluster-services-registry.md (design).
  • Add the three navigation entries to docs/fern/index.yml; link the pool relay page to the deployment guide.
  • Claim the three pages under global-router in .github/codeowners/areas.yaml and regenerate CODEOWNERS.

Depends on (not in this PR)

Links point at the parent branch estroz/mcs-port-module (#17615), where every piece is present together.

Validation

On this branch alone: docs_lint.py --scan docs 0 errors; after generating the API reference pages as pre-merge does, fern check 0 errors and fern docs broken-links passes. build_codeowners.py --strict 7321/7321 owned, emit_codeowners.py no diff.

Every slice of #17615 was validated together at 0fd4c96b on the parent branch, from a fresh checkout of deploy/global-discovery-mcs:

  • make lint 0 issues; make test (unit plus envtest, -race, coverage gate 85 on ./internal/...) 95.7 percent; make test-integration against amazon/dynamodb-local all pass; make proto-check and make check no drift; Docker linter and tester stages exit 0.
  • Chart: make -C deploy/helm/charts/global-discovery-mcs lint test, 57 unittest cases; server-side dry run and a real install, upgrade and uninstall.
  • CI metadata: build_codeowners.py --strict 100 percent owned, emit_codeowners.py no diff, test-filters.js 87/87.
  • Docs: docs_lint.py 0 errors, fern check 0 errors, fern docs broken-links passes.
  • End-to-end on three kind clusters (make e2e E2E_PHASES="1 2 3"): 99 passed, 0 failed, 1 known gap (pool region equals cluster id until feat(global-router): take a pool's region from its EndpointSlice label in the mcs backend #17604 lands).

Issues and Ongoing Work

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added an experimental Global Discovery Service for finding pools and router replicas across clusters, with support for Kubernetes Multi-Cluster Services and Karmada discovery.
    • Added service registration, discovery endpoints, health checks, and deployment configuration.
    • Added shared HTTP server capabilities for graceful shutdown, request tracking, TLS, and connection timeouts.
  • Documentation
    • Added setup, configuration, and reference guides for multi-cluster service discovery and updated guidance for cross-cluster Relay Services.

atchernych and others added 30 commits October 26, 2026 11:33
…ts share

dynamo-global-common holds the types that more than one Global Router
component needs, so each is defined once:
- a pool's identity and location (PoolKey, PoolId and its deriver,
  PoolLocation), from the shared crate on the global-router-v2 test branch;
- the JSON of the Global Discovery Service's HTTP API: the POST /pools body
  and its lease reply, and the pool and router lists. Today the service and
  its client each define these;
- how a router names a PoolRelay on a trusted network (address_identity),
  which the service writes into each pool's relay_identity;
- Global Router replicas, and list-and-watch events and snapshots, which
  the service and the client in #17208 both define today.

The JSON does not change. PoolKey now reads and writes
{"site_id", "namespace", "dgd_name"} and checks each field while reading.
A lease reply parses only when the heartbeat interval is above zero and
below the lease, as in the client in #17208, and the lease is at most a
day.

Co-authored-by: Sachal Malick <s@chal.ai>
Co-authored-by: Jacob Ioffe <jioffe@nvidia.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Tchernych <atchernych@nvidia.com>
Review feedback: the comments on `round_trip`, `PoolLocation` and
`Snapshot` repeated the name or the fields right below them.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Tchernych <atchernych@nvidia.com>
…c comments

- A `POST /pools` body with an empty or blank `model` no longer parses, as
  with an invalid pool key, so the PoolRelay gets a 422 instead of
  registering a pool that no request can match.
- The crate docs said the service writes the API's JSON and its clients
  read it; the registration body goes the other way.
- `pool.rs` no longer refers to a source adapter that is not on main, or
  calls the V1 derivation the POC one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Tchernych <atchernych@nvidia.com>
The one-day cap made the shared `Lease` stricter than the client in #17208:
once that client reads the shared type, a reply with a longer lease would
fail to parse. The cap only protects the service's own clock arithmetic, so
the service now bounds the lease it grants (#17371), and `Lease` keeps the
checks a client needs: the interval is above zero and below the lease.

Also drops `LeaseError`'s doc comment, which restated its use.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Tchernych <atchernych@nvidia.com>
A pool's listing named its PoolRelay by one address. On a dual-stack
cluster the PoolRelay's pod has two, and it connects to a router from
whichever family the router's address uses, so a router matching one
address could turn the right PoolRelay away. `relay_identities` now lists
each of them.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Tchernych <atchernych@nvidia.com>
round_trip fails unless the parsed value serializes back to the same
JSON, so the field assertions after it could not catch anything more.
A lease of u64::MAX seconds already shows that a lease has no upper
bound, so the 48-hour case goes too.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Tchernych <atchernych@nvidia.com>
dynamo-global-discovery-service starts as a library: which Global Router
pools exist, and which Global Router replicas a PoolRelay connects to.

Following the Global Router coding standards:
- The contract comes first: the store traits in pool_discovery
  (PoolDirectory, PoolRegistrar, ReplicaDirectory), on the
  dynamo-global-common types.
- The stores sit below it: in memory (registrations with leases), and MCS
  (pools and router replicas from the EndpointSlices that Karmada or a
  standard MCS implementation imports).

The HTTP service that serves them is added separately.

The code is the discovery work from #15933 and #15949, in the crate layout
of the global-router-v2 test branch. It leaves out the router-side pieces
those PRs had (relay admission, state connections, router discovery
modes): routers now read pools from the service, and relay connections
belong to the router.

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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Tchernych <atchernych@nvidia.com>
- When the EndpointSlice watch keeps failing, for example after its RBAC is
  removed, the cache served its last view as complete indefinitely. It
  still serves that view, and the service stays ready, but after a minute
  of failures it reports the view as Estimated, so GET /pools says
  "complete": false, and it logs the failures as errors.
- A misnamed router port, Service or namespace left GET /routers empty with
  nothing in the log. A router EndpointSlice without the named port is now
  logged, and so is a relist that lists nothing, which also catches a
  cluster without the expected ServiceImports.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Tchernych <atchernych@nvidia.com>
… list

Review feedback:
- list_and_watch returns a stream that yields nothing until the first
  complete list. That is deliberate, as dynamo_runtime's Kubernetes
  discovery also waits to be ready, but it was undocumented. The cancel
  token ends the wait, and the watch's failures are logged.
- The error logged after a minute of watch failures claimed to list the
  last view as incomplete even before there was a view.
- A test comment only restated the next line.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Tchernych <atchernych@nvidia.com>
…ache

- The watcher's lists, including its relists after a watch error, were
  quorum reads from etcd (kube's default, ListSemantic::MostRecent), paged
  500 at a time. They now use any_semantic(): the API server answers from
  its watch cache, and the watch catches up from there. Discovery needs
  nothing stronger, and the pool watch covers every imported EndpointSlice
  in the cluster.
- The one list made before the cache syncs uses match_any() for the same
  reason.
- The pool and router indexes each had a copy of the Ready filter; both now
  use one ready_endpoints helper.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Tchernych <atchernych@nvidia.com>
… them

The previous commit asked the watcher for lists from the API server's
cache with any_semantic(), but kube sends resourceVersion=0 only when no
page size is set, and the watcher pages 500 at a time by default. Its
lists therefore stayed paged quorum reads from etcd. With paging off they
are served from the watch cache in one response, as client-go's reflector
lists. The cache keeps only what it derives from each slice, so the larger
response costs little.

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Signed-off-by: Anna Tchernych <atchernych@nvidia.com>
… who makes it

The MCS store's module doc said the operator creates each PoolRelay
Service's `ServiceExport`, but no operator code does. It now says what the
store needs, and what `relay_identity` is for: routers do not check it yet.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Tchernych <atchernych@nvidia.com>
From an independent review against the Global Router coding standards:

- A failing EndpointSlice watch is now reported correctly. The cache
  cleared its failure clock on `Init`, which kube sends before each relist
  attempt, so a list that kept failing never made the view `Estimated`.
  And kube resumes a watch without an event, so after one error a healthy
  watch turned `Estimated` a minute later. Now errors spanning a minute
  mark the view stale, and two minutes without one count as recovery.
  `Init` no longer reaches kube's backoff, which it reset, so a failing
  list backs off instead of retrying every 800 ms.
- `register` takes the `PoolRegistration` a PoolRelay sends and returns
  the `Lease`, and pools are listed as `PoolListing`. The store's own
  record type and its unused revision are gone.
- A pool binds to a PoolRelay pod and lists every address of it in
  `relay_identities`, so a dual-stack PoolRelay matches from either family.
  A router replica in an IPv4 and an IPv6 slice is served at its IPv4
  address, whatever the slices are named.
- The memory store reports a list as exact once a lease has passed since
  it started.
- With Karmada, a Service name over 57 characters loses its cluster from
  the slice names. Such slices are now logged rather than skipped silently,
  and the limit is documented.
- `hub`, `endpoints` and `mcs` are private. `EndpointSliceReplicaDirectory`
  is `McsReplicaDirectory` with `new`, `PoolDiscoveryError` is
  `DiscoveryError`, the store types implement `Debug`, and the contract's
  docs no longer name stores or HTTP routes.
- A relist no longer copies the whole view to check whether it is empty.

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Signed-off-by: Anna Tchernych <atchernych@nvidia.com>
- Bind the Ready PoolRelay pod with the lowest address, from the current
  slices only, so every service instance admits the same PoolRelay.
- Tell watchers when completeness changes: a Resync when a failing watch
  turns the view Estimated, and when it recovers, by an event or by
  silence. The memory store publishes one when its first lease passes.
- Ask the API server to end each watch after 50 s, so a server that stops
  answering fails within the client's read timeout.
- Drop a failed relist's slices, so the next relist starts over.
- Count only a slice's named TCP port, and not port 0, for router replicas.
- Test that a relist that keeps failing backs off without its Init.

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Signed-off-by: Anna Tchernych <atchernych@nvidia.com>
- A relist ends a run of watch errors only when it completes. Its first
  slice no longer announces the view from before the outage as Exact.
- An error after a quiet spell ends the old run, and announces it, before
  starting a new one, even if the quiet timer has not fired yet.
- The per-attempt budget behind RECOVERED_AFTER counts the client's
  connect timeout as well as its read timeout.
- The watch loop takes any event stream, so a test checks that its timer
  ends a run of errors that falls silent.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Tchernych <atchernych@nvidia.com>
Copy lib/http-server (dynamo-http-server) unchanged from #17178 at
0953287, so the Global Discovery Service can serve on it: TLS and mTLS,
graceful draining, write timeouts and connection handling. #17178 also moves
dynamo-llm onto this crate; this copy leaves dynamo-llm as it is.

The files are byte-identical to #17178's, so the two PRs carry the same
crate. Its 56 tests pass on main.

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Co-authored-by: Sachal Malick <s@chal.ai>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Tchernych <atchernych@nvidia.com>
Adds the global-discovery-service binary, which serves pool discovery for
the Global Router over HTTP: POST /pools (a PoolRelay registers its pool,
and each call is also its heartbeat), GET /pools, GET /routers and
GET /healthz. --store picks the store: memory, karmada or mcs.

It serves on dynamo-http-server, which adds optional TLS and mTLS
(--tls-cert-path, --tls-key-path, --tls-client-ca-cert-path). On shutdown
it lets requests in flight finish.

The service grew from the POC in #16714, through #15949. It leaves out
checking who calls POST /pools: V1 trusts the network, so no store used the
caller. A pool's relay_identity, which routers use to admit its PoolRelay,
still comes from MCS. An invalid pool key or a blank model in POST /pools
is a 422, like any other invalid body, because both are checked while the
JSON is read.

Co-authored-by: Sachal Malick <s@chal.ai>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Tchernych <atchernych@nvidia.com>
…l Discovery Service

Copied from the POC in #16714 and updated for this crate's binary:
- container/Dockerfile.global-discovery-service builds
  global-discovery-service from dynamo-global-discovery-service into a
  CPU-only Debian image, as the POC did for its own binary.
- container/global-discovery-service.yaml deploys it on the hub with the
  Karmada store, the router Service global-router and its port http, as
  the test deployment in #17278 does. It needs only read access to
  EndpointSlices. Logging is set with DYN_LOG, which the service reads,
  instead of RUST_LOG.

The Dockerfile is owned by the global router and ops teams, like other
component Dockerfiles, and the manifest by the global router team.

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Signed-off-by: Anna Tchernych <atchernych@nvidia.com>
…ifest's prerequisites

- --pool-service-suffix rejected a value given as a separate argument, as
  every suffix starts with a hyphen ("-pool-gateway"), and accepted an
  empty one, which made every imported Service a pool. It now takes the
  former and refuses the latter.
- The manifest says what the Karmada store needs: a ServiceImport in this
  cluster for each pool's PoolRelay Service and for the router Service, or
  a kubeconfig for the Karmada control plane. It also says what the
  --router-* arguments must name.
- A preStop sleep keeps the service answering while the Pod leaves the
  Service's endpoints. The service has no in-flight requests to drain, so
  it stops accepting connections as soon as it gets SIGTERM.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Tchernych <atchernych@nvidia.com>
The shared `Lease` no longer caps the lease at a day (#17330), because a
client should follow any lease it is given. The service still needs a
bound: its stores add the lease to the current time, which a lease near
`u64::MAX` seconds would overflow. `--lease-duration-secs` now refuses
anything over a day at startup, as its help already said.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Tchernych <atchernych@nvidia.com>
…ough

The stores now take the `PoolRegistration` a PoolRelay sends, return the
`Lease`, and list `PoolListing` (#17331), so the service no longer converts
to and from a record type of its own. `GET /pools` lists each pool's
`relay_identities`, and the Kubernetes stores use `McsReplicaDirectory`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Tchernych <atchernych@nvidia.com>
The Kubernetes stores count a failing watch as recovered after 120 s
without an error, which holds only if each failed attempt ends within
90 s. kube's defaults are 30 s to connect and 295 s to read. The client
now connects within 10 s and reads within 75 s, and a compile-time check
keeps the two under 90 s. The stores' watches end after 50 s, so a
working watch never reaches the read timeout.

Also give DiscoveryStore a Debug impl.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Tchernych <atchernych@nvidia.com>
Main now has #17355, which adds empty lib/global-* crates, lib/global-common
among them, and routes lib/global-*/** to the Global Router team. Where both
sides changed the same lines, main's version is kept: the workspace members,
the CODEOWNERS glob, and the crate's package metadata and summary line. This
branch keeps its modules, dependencies, workspace dependency entry and
Cargo.lock entry.

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Signed-off-by: Anna Tchernych <atchernych@nvidia.com>
…ery-service

The base now has main, with #17355's empty lib/global-* crates, among them
lib/global-discovery-service, and its lib/global-*/** code-owner rule. Where
both sides changed the same lines, main's version is kept: the workspace
members, the code-owner rule, and the crate's package metadata and summary
line. This branch keeps its modules, dependencies and Cargo.lock entries.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Tchernych <atchernych@nvidia.com>
…obal-discovery-http

The base now has main, with #17355's Global Router crates. Both sides added
workspace members next to each other: keep main's lib/global-* block whole
and put lib/http-server just before it. The crate's summary line is main's,
as in the base. Cargo.lock is the base's plus this branch's entries.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Tchernych <atchernych@nvidia.com>
Main now has the Global Discovery Service client from #17208 in
lib/global-discovery-client, which the next commits move onto this crate's
types, and the PoolRelay rename from #17215. No conflicts.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Tchernych <atchernych@nvidia.com>
From Neelay Shah's review:
- PoolKey's first field is cluster_id, not site_id, in Rust and in JSON.
  It is the cluster ID the pool's PoolRelay runs with (--cluster-id,
  DYN_CLUSTER_ID), so a pool key and its relay share one name. Where MCS
  also reports the pool, that ID must be the cluster's name in the
  ClusterSet, and the doc says so. Pool IDs do not change: the deriver
  hashes the values, not the field names.
- PoolLocation drops cluster, which the key carries.
- ReplicaEndpoint, ReplicaId and ReplicaEvent become RouterReplica,
  RouterReplicaId and RouterReplicaEvent, since relays and workers have
  replicas too. Their JSON does not change.
- WatchEvent::Added becomes Upserted, Lease::lease_duration() becomes
  duration(), and Capacity.count becomes workers, in JSON too.

Lease is now #[must_use], as the client's copy was, so the client keeps
that check when it moves onto this type.

From the review threads: a test, from Dmitry Tokarev's review, that a
reader skips unknown fields and fills missing lists, and two duplicate
assertions removed. A pre-push review added a test that a reply without
its list does not parse, so an empty body never reads as "no routers".

Co-authored-by: Dmitry Tokarev <191198572+dmitry-tokarev-nv@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Tchernych <atchernych@nvidia.com>
Neelay Shah and Jacob Ioffe asked on #17208 that its client move onto
dynamo-global-common in this PR, so two PoolKey definitions never sit on
main together. lib/global-discovery-client drops its own copies of the
JSON types, router replicas and watch events. It re-exports the shared
types its calls send and return, with their error types; the watch types
come from dynamo-global-common. Its calls and errors do not change.

What it sends follows the shared types: the key's cluster_id, a location
without cluster, and capacity in workers. A PoolKey is built with
PoolKey::new, which checks its fields.

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…ery-service

The base renamed the shared types after review (PoolKey's cluster_id,
RouterReplica, WatchEvent::Upserted, Lease::duration, Capacity.workers,
no PoolLocation.cluster), moved the discovery client onto them, and
merged main. No conflicts; the next commit follows the renames.

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Signed-off-by: Anna Tchernych <atchernych@nvidia.com>
The base renamed them after review: PoolKey::cluster_id (was site_id),
RouterReplica, RouterReplicaId and RouterReplicaEvent (were
ReplicaEndpoint, ReplicaId and ReplicaEvent), WatchEvent::Upserted (was
Added), Lease::duration (was lease_duration) and Capacity.workers (was
count), in JSON too. PoolLocation has no cluster field, so nothing sets
it. Lease is #[must_use], so tests that only register drop the lease
explicitly.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Tchernych <atchernych@nvidia.com>
atchernych and others added 4 commits October 29, 2026 08:38
…gistration-storage

--store mixed two choices. It is now one flag for each:
- --pool-discovery: where the pool and router lists come from. Either
  the registrations PoolRelays send (registrations, the default), or the
  EndpointSlices MCS imports, named the Karmada way (karmada) or the
  standard way (mcs). karmada and mcs are the values of the operator's
  mcsImplementation in #17412.
- --registration-storage: where registrations are kept. Only memory for
  now; DynamoDB or Kubernetes can come later.

--help groups the flags that work with only some --pool-discovery values,
and such a flag given with another value fails at startup instead of
being ignored, for example --router with karmada. The service's
DiscoveryStore is now DiscoveryBackend, the backend behind the API, since
pools from MCS are not stored. The manifest uses --pool-discovery=karmada.

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…eview

- DiscoveryBackend is now PoolDiscoveryBackend: dynamo_runtime, a
  dependency of this crate, already has a public DiscoveryBackend, for
  Dynamo's own discovery.
- A flag for another --pool-discovery value fails whatever set it, not
  only the command line. A test checks that every flag either works with
  every value or sits under one of the two --help headings, so a new flag
  cannot skip the check. In this PR karmada and mcs take no
  registrations, so --registration-storage sits under the registrations
  heading too.
- With karmada or mcs, clap itself requires --router-namespace,
  --router-service and --router-port-name, so every mistake in the flags
  gives a clap error and exit code 2.
- The 501 for POST /pools no longer says the pools come from MCS: the
  HTTP layer does not know why a backend takes no registrations. lib.rs
  no longer lists the endpoints, which service.rs documents.
- The tests check the error kind and the flag named, and each router
  flag's requirement on its own. Breaking the refusal, counting defaults
  as given, dropping a heading or a requirement, or swapping the modes
  each fails a test.

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… stores

What implements the pool discovery contract is a backend: MCS is read,
not stored into. The crate, contract and MCS docs now say "backend". The
memory backend's docs still call MemoryPoolStore a store, since it does
keep registrations.

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…obal-discovery-http

The base now calls the discovery implementations backends, not stores.
lib.rs conflicted: kept this PR's list, which adds the HTTP service and
PoolDiscoveryBackend; both sides had the same backends line.

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Detailed inline review feedback. Correctness findings, non-blocking suggestions, and coverage requests are identified separately in the comments.

--namespace mcs-system --create-namespace \
--set registry.enabled=false \
--set controller.enabled=true \
--set 'controller.registryUrls={https://mcs-registry.example.internal:9090}' \

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[P2] Make the installation commands configure matching transports

The shown registry installation is plaintext, but the controller connects with HTTPS

The preceding Helm commands leave registry.tls.secretName unset, so the registry serves plaintext. This command then configures an HTTPS client.

The guide mentions certificate flags, but the supplied installation commands do not configure those flags, a certificate Secret, or TLS termination. Following the commands through an ordinary internal TCP load balancer therefore produces a TLS client connecting to a plaintext server, preventing controller registration.

Requested change

Provide a complete, consistent transport example.

For the production path, show the registry certificate Secret, its Helm configuration, the expected certificate hostname and any required controller CA trust.

If retaining a plaintext evaluation path, pair the URL with the explicit opt-in:

controller:
  registryUrls:
    - http://mcs-registry.example.internal:9090
  registryAllowInsecureHttp: true

Document TLS termination explicitly if the endpoint is expected to terminate TLS outside the registry.

Validation

Execute the registry and controller installation instructions as one sequence and verify successful registration using the transport configuration actually shown.

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Confirmed, the guide mixed a plaintext registry with an HTTPS client. It now has two consistent sequences: a production one with the registry certificate Secret (registry.tls.secretName), the SANs the certificate needs, and the controller CA trust (controller.registryTlsCa.configMapName), and an evaluation one with http:// plus the explicit controller.registryAllowInsecureHttp=true opt-in. We also added where TLS termination at a load balancer fits, and rendered each helm install sequence with helm template against the chart (in f5d56c8).

2. **Monotonic generations.** A generation of `max(previous + 1, unix milliseconds)` puts
generation order and wall-clock order in agreement, which is the order last writer wins uses.
A controller that fails over to another region writes above everything it wrote before.
3. **Full-state writes.** Every put replaces a whole record and controllers resync periodically,

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[P2] Distinguish implemented guarantees from intended repair and typical timing

The correctness argument relies on periodic resync that is not implemented

Resyncer.Start performs startup resync, retries failures and then waits for explicit triggers. After a successful resync, there is no timer. Reconnect and re-registration can cause another resend, but neither is guaranteed while the connection and registration remain healthy.

Routine heartbeats do not supply an equivalent mechanism: they do not invalidate the relevant export hashes or advance the payload timestamps used in the import fingerprint.

Consequently, a missing unchanged record is not guaranteed to be repaired by a bounded "next write."

The surrounding argument also states stronger guarantees than the mechanisms establish:

  • Millisecond-derived application generations do not determine DynamoDB's internal last-writer-wins timestamps or guarantee that a restarted writer exceeds every earlier generation.
  • Typical replication latency plus a polling interval does not establish a hard five-second cross-Region visibility bound.

These are limitations of the claimed guarantees, not a claim that every ordinary sequential write is reordered.

Requested change

Either implement the stated bounded repair mechanism or describe the actual trigger-based behavior and its limitations. Present expected latency separately from guaranteed bounds.

This documentation issue supports the controller recovery finding; it is not another independent production failure.

Validation

Each claimed repair mechanism should correspond to an implemented trigger or timer and coverage showing recovery while source objects remain unchanged.

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Fair on all three points. The Resyncer was trigger-driven (startup, registry reconnect, re-registration), so the page now says that, lists what is guaranteed, what is typical (3 to 6 s propagation, 2 s refresh, about 10 s heartbeat) and that drift repair without a trigger was not covered. The periodic export and import resyncs that #17633 now adds will be reflected here once that slice settles. We also reworded the generation text to what it establishes: writer-local monotonicity and agreement with wall-clock order in practice, not DynamoDB's internal timestamps (in f5d56c8).

…outer

Slice 7 of 8 of #17615, the port of the Multi-Cluster Services layer of
the Global Router. Docs-site pages: the Multi-Cluster Services deployment guide, the global-discovery-mcs configuration reference and the registry design page.

Relates to #17601

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Signed-off-by: Eric Stroczynski <estroczynski@nvidia.com>
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Minor Always notify when the inflight count reaches zero; the stage check can lose the drain wake-up.
Major Return to the repository root after building.
Major Match the example Service to MCS discovery.
Major Include the MCS dependencies before merging.

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Review comments at
@docs/fern/pages/kubernetes/kv-aware-routing/multi-cluster-services.md:
- Line 77: Update the build instructions around `cd deploy/global-discovery-mcs`
so the directory change does not affect the later `helm install` commands: run
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- Line 11: Ensure the MCS module and chart referenced by
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Review comments at @docs/fern/pages/kubernetes/kv-aware-routing/pool-relay.md:
- Around line 321-322: Update the pool-relay Service example and its export
instructions to name the exported Service <DGD name>-pool-relay, matching Global
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- Around line 176-184: Update InflightPermit::drop to call
inflight_zero.notify_waiters() on every transition of inflight_inference from 1
to 0, removing the ServiceStage::Ready condition while preserving the existing
atomic decrement and ordering.
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The pull request adds a Global Discovery Service with memory and Kubernetes discovery backends, an HTTP server crate, and Kubernetes deployment resources. It also adds Multi-Cluster Services guides and reference documentation.

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Global Discovery Service

Layer / File(s) Summary
HTTP server package and request utilities
lib/http-server/*, Cargo.toml
Adds a reusable HTTP server crate, request helpers, and serializable frontend load types.
HTTP lifecycle and connection handling
lib/http-server/src/disconnect.rs, lib/http-server/src/lifecycle.rs, lib/http-server/src/server.rs, lib/http-server/src/write_timeout.rs
Adds connection monitoring, inflight request tracking, graceful shutdown, TLS handshake limits, and connection and transfer write deadlines.
Discovery contracts and memory backend
lib/global-discovery-service/src/pool_discovery*, lib/global-discovery-service/src/backends.rs, lib/global-discovery-service/src/backends/memory.rs, lib/global-discovery-service/src/backends/stream.rs
Adds pool, replica, registration, and watch interfaces. Adds in-memory pool registration, static router replicas, and watch-stream helpers.
Kubernetes MCS discovery
lib/global-discovery-service/src/backends/kubernetes*
Adds Standard MCS and Karmada EndpointSlice selection, caching, and pool and router-replica directories.
HTTP API and executable wiring
lib/global-discovery-service/src/service.rs, lib/global-discovery-service/src/main.rs
Adds pool registration and listing, router listing, and health endpoints. The executable selects a backend, configures TLS, and handles shutdown signals.
Deployment resources and repository ownership
container/Dockerfile.global-discovery-service, container/global-discovery-service.yaml, .github/codeowners/areas.yaml, CODEOWNERS, Cargo.toml
Adds the service image and Kubernetes deployment resources, updates workspace membership, and adds ownership rules.
Multi-Cluster Services guides and reference
docs/fern/index.yml, docs/fern/pages/developer-guide/.../multi-cluster-services-registry.md, docs/fern/pages/kubernetes/kv-aware-routing/*, docs/fern/pages/reference/components/global-discovery-mcs-configuration.md
Adds MCS registry, deployment, and configuration documentation, plus a Relay Service guidance update and documentation navigation entries.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

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  • Fix comments: Fix CodeRabbit comments on this PR

**Experimental.** NVIDIA Dynamo includes an implementation of the Kubernetes Multi-Cluster Services
(MCS) API ([KEP-1645](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/sig-multicluster/1645-multi-cluster-services-api),
`multicluster.x-k8s.io`) in
[`deploy/global-discovery-mcs`](https://github.com/ai-dynamo/dynamo/tree/main/deploy/global-discovery-mcs).

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Major · Stability & Availability · Heavy lift

Include the MCS dependencies before merging.

The module and chart are absent from this checkout. Their links fail the Docs link check across all three new pages, and readers cannot run the installation commands. The check resolves main links against the PR checkout. Merge or rebase on the dependency slices first. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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CRDs, and push it to a registry your clusters can pull from:

```bash
cd deploy/global-discovery-mcs

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Major · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Return to the repository root after building.

This cd persists in the shell. The later helm install commands use a chart path relative to the repository root, so they cannot find the chart. Run the build in a subshell or return to the root before those commands. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Comment on lines +321 to +322
Multi-Cluster Services API can make a Relay Service visible in the other clusters instead; see
[Deploy Multi-Cluster Services](multi-cluster-services.md).

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Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win

Match the example Service to MCS discovery.

This page creates a Service named pool-relay. If readers follow the linked guide to configure Global Discovery Service, its default -pool-relay suffix does not match that name, so the pool is omitted. Name the exported Service <DGD name>-pool-relay and update the export instructions accordingly. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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if self
.observer
.inflight_inference
.fetch_sub(1, Ordering::AcqRel)
== 1
&& self.observer.stage() != ServiceStage::Ready
{
self.observer.inflight_zero.notify_waiters();
}

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Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win

Always notify when the inflight count reaches zero; the stage check can lose the drain wake-up.

InflightPermit::drop runs an RMW on inflight_inference and then a load of stage. start_draining stores stage and then wait_inflight_zero_or_timeout loads inflight_inference. This is a store-buffering pattern. With Release/Acquire ordering, each side can see the old value of the other side's variable. When that happens, the drop sees Ready and does not notify, and the waiter still sees a count of 1. Shutdown then waits for the full DYN_HTTP_GRACEFUL_SHUTDOWN_TIMEOUT_SECS even though no request is in flight.

To fix this, call notify_waiters() on every 1→0 transition. Notify synchronizes through its internal lock. Either the waiter is registered before the notify and is woken, or it registers after the notify and then sees the count at 0. The added cost is one uncontended lock each time the count reaches zero.

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--- "a/lib/http-server/src/lifecycle.rs"
+++ "b/lib/http-server/src/lifecycle.rs"
@@ -173,15 +173,14 @@
 
 impl Drop for InflightPermit {
     fn drop(&mut self) {
-        if self
-            .observer
-            .inflight_inference
-            .fetch_sub(1, Ordering::AcqRel)
-            == 1
-            && self.observer.stage() != ServiceStage::Ready
-        {
+        if self
+            .observer
+            .inflight_inference
+            .fetch_sub(1, Ordering::AcqRel)
+            == 1
+        {
             self.observer.inflight_zero.notify_waiters();
         }
     }
 }
 
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if self
.observer
.inflight_inference
.fetch_sub(1, Ordering::AcqRel)
== 1
&& self.observer.stage() != ServiceStage::Ready
{
self.observer.inflight_zero.notify_waiters();
}
if self
.observer
.inflight_inference
.fetch_sub(1, Ordering::AcqRel)
== 1
{
self.observer.inflight_zero.notify_waiters();
}
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Update InflightPermit::drop to call inflight_zero.notify_waiters() on every
transition of inflight_inference from 1 to 0, removing the ServiceStage::Ready
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