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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughNIXL and NIXLBench build scripts can pass additional Docker arguments. Jenkins jobs create an optional Git configuration secret from bound GitHub credentials and pass it to builds. Dockerfiles mount the secret for dependency clones and disable interactive Git prompts. ChangesOptional dependency clone authentication
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Jenkins->>Jenkins: Write /tmp/ghconfig from bound credentials
Jenkins->>BuildScript: Set DOCKER_BUILD_EXTRA_ARGS with ghconfig secret
BuildScript->>Docker: Pass extra arguments to docker build
Docker->>Dockerfile: Mount ghconfig at /root/.gitconfig
Dockerfile->>Git: Clone dependencies
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Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to A PR build can expose the GitHub credential to PR-controlled code, so isolate that credential before merging. Remove the debug probe and correct the outstanding authentication documentation as well. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 2❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)
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🤖 CI Triage Agent — TL;DR: The Full analysisSummary: Root cause: Everything up to step 34 succeeded (Mooncake, azure-sdk-for-cpp, gtest-parallel all built and installed). At step 35/38 the image build determines the vLLM release tag with an inline Python one-liner: No
Implicated commit: c984ce6 — lishapira, "CI: add vLLM + NIXL EP test to the EP CI job (#2154)" (introduced the unauthenticated release-lookup step); File: EP CI Dockerfile under Suggested fix: Three changes, in order of value:
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The token is exposed to PR-controlled code.
build-container-pr-matrix.yaml builds the PR's own Dockerfile and scripts with the secret available. Anyone who can trigger PR CI can add RUN --mount=type=secret,id=ghconfig cat /root/.gitconfig, or just cat /tmp/ghconfig in a script.
Please confirm two things. The svc-nixl-github-token PAT should be read-only with no write scopes, ideally a fine-grained token limited to public repos. PR CI should also be gated for external contributors, for example behind maintainer approval.
Given the stated goal (surviving anonymous 401s), a no-scope token is enough. Please say so in the PR.
Check the behaviour when the secret is absent, and on legacy builders.
The PR says an unsupplied secret gives an empty mount. That is BuildKit semantics.
The PR only reports verifying the supplied-secret case on podman 5.7.1. Please also test a plain podman build (buildah) and a Docker build with no --secret. Buildah behaviour on a missing non-required secret has varied by version.
The legacy builder (DOCKER_BUILDKIT=0) rejects --mount outright. The PR says local and external builds are unchanged, which is no longer true for them. Either document "BuildKit required" or add a # syntax=docker/dockerfile:1 line if it is missing.
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@dpressle thanks — all three points held up. Addressed in the current revision: Token exposure. Agreed: PR builds run PR-controlled Dockerfiles and scripts with the credential available, and the old Behaviour without the secret. Tested the mount line with no
You're right that "empty mount" was BuildKit-style wording — the target is simply absent when no secret is passed. Corrected. Legacy builder. Also right: "local and external builds are unchanged" was false for The top commit is a temporary probe that forces a 401 so git must use the credential — it confirms the new token is accepted (including under |
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contrib/Dockerfile, contrib/Dockerfile.manylinux and nixlbench's Dockerfile clone their third-party dependencies anonymously. github.com intermittently answers an anonymous clone with an HTTP 401; with no credential git tries to prompt, finds no TTY, and fails the build as "could not read Username". Every cloning RUN now mounts an optional "ghconfig" build secret at /root/.gitconfig holding an http.extraheader that authenticates every github.com request. Unsupplied, the target is absent and the clone is anonymous as before. GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT=0 is an ARG, so it does not persist into the shipped images. build-container.sh and nixlbench's build.sh gain DOCKER_BUILD_EXTRA_ARGS, a generic passthrough appended to their docker build command and empty by default. build-container.sh also defaults DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1: RUN --mount is rejected by the legacy builder, which pre-23 Docker still uses by default. The container and nightly wheel matrices write the config with write_github_gitconfig (common.sh) in their setup step, pass it to the build as --secret through that variable, and use it for their agent-side clones via git -c include.path, which leaves existing global config such as safe.directory intact. build-wheel-matrix needs nothing, since --wheel-base-image skips the stage that clones. The credential is svc-nixl-github-read-only-token, a fine-grained token with read-only access to public repositories and no other permissions. PR builds run PR-controlled Dockerfiles and scripts with it available, so it must not carry write scopes. Because the header is sent on every request, an invalid token fails every clone in these jobs rather than falling back to anonymous. Signed-off-by: NirWolfer <nwolfer@nvidia.com>
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Two pieces of evidence that it's a margin/flake rather than a real regression:
Implicated commit: No commit in this build introduced the failure. The test and its 3 s bound come from File: Suggested fix: Make the metadata-propagation wait sanitizer-aware instead of a fixed 3 s:
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🤖 CI Triage Agent — TL;DR: The build didn't fail on code — the Full analysisSummary: Root cause: Pure resource starvation in the slurm allocation step, not a hang in nixl code. Everything the build actually compiles succeeded: UCX install, Implicated commit: None in nixl source — the tested commit File: CI pipeline Suggested fix:
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Excludes four `vrnvl72` nodes from the `nixl-ci-gpu-vr` Slurm
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- `vr-nvl72-ts3-l06-comp137`, `comp139`, `comp141`
- `vr-nvl72-ts2b-l10-comp102`
These nodes are configured differently from the rest of the partition.
On them `test_prep_mem_view` fails deterministically — UCX rejects the
remote mem-view with `lane not found for element 0` — while the same
image and commit pass on the other nodes. In the bring-up runs every
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- `.ci/docs/ci-overview.md` — note the exclusion on the `nixl-ci-gpu-vr`
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…2313) ## Summary `Dockerfile.base` (through `.gitlab/build.sh` and the vLLM clone) and the manylinux `wheel_base` clone their dependencies from github.com anonymously. github.com intermittently answers an anonymous clone with an HTTP 401; with no credential git tries to prompt, finds no TTY, and fails the image build as `could not read Username for 'https://github.com'`. These images are built by ci-demo outside any step. This uses the `credentialsId` support for `runs_on_dockers` images added in Mellanox/ci-demo#165. Third of three PRs replacing #2263 (with #2309 and #2310). ## Changes - Each `Dockerfile.base` / manylinux `wheel_base` entry in the 7 matrices that build them sets `credentialsId: 'svc-nixl-github-read-only-token'`, bound by ci-demo around that image's build. It is a fine-grained token with read-only access to public repositories and no other permissions, since the build runs PR-controlled code with it available. - `pipeline_on_image_build` calls `write_github_gitconfig /tmp/ghconfig` — the `common.sh` helper added by #2310 — which writes an `http.https://github.com/.extraheader` git config in the ephemeral build pod (tracing off, mode 600), or an empty file when nothing is bound. The hook runs under `#!/bin/bash -e`, since `common.sh` uses `$RANDOM`, which a POSIX `sh` lacks. - The entries' `build_args` pass it as `--secret id=ghconfig,src=/tmp/ghconfig`; `Dockerfile.base` mounts it at `${_HOME}/.gitconfig` (`mode=0444`, non-root) on the `build.sh` and vLLM `RUN`s. It never lands in a layer or `podman history`. `GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT=0` is an `ARG`, so it does not persist into the image. - `.ci/docs/ci-overview.md` updated. Because the header is sent on every request, an invalid token fails every clone in these builds rather than falling back to anonymous. Unbound, the file is empty and the clones stay anonymous as today, so this is safe to merge before or after ci-demo#165. The manylinux `wheel_base` has mounted the secret since #2310, so its clones are authenticated too. Relies on Mellanox/ci-demo#165 (merged), which adds `credentialsId` on `runs_on_dockers` images. Verified end to end before merge with the library pinned to that branch: the token was bound around each base-image build (`Masking supported pattern matches of $NIXL_GITHUB_TOKEN` in every Build Docker stage), and `docker build` received `--secret id=ghconfig,src=/tmp/ghconfig`. <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit * **Build Improvements** * CI image builds can now authenticate GitHub dependency clones, helping builds succeed when anonymous access is unavailable. * Builds continue without authentication when no token is configured; invalid, expired, or restricted tokens cause GitHub clones to fail. * **Documentation** * Updated CI guidance to explain authenticated dependency clones and their behavior. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> Signed-off-by: NirWolfer <nwolfer@nvidia.com>
Select EP proxy mode through backend parameters while retaining direct mode as the default. Derive topology from EP rank capacity and proxy settings, erase the inherited num_workers default, and disable shared background progress because the proxy owns its progress threads. Signed-off-by: Tomer Davidor <tdavidor@nvidia.com>
`meson setup` clones two `[wrap-git]` subprojects from github.com: `taskflow` (`subprojects/taskflow.wrap`, a `[wrap-git]` since #2121) and `prometheus-cpp`. #2310 mounted the `ghconfig` build secret on every explicit `git clone` `RUN` in the Dockerfiles, but not on the `RUN`s that call `meson setup`, so those two clones stayed anonymous. When github.com answers an anonymous clone with an HTTP 401, the two clones fail in different ways: - `taskflow` is required, so `meson setup` fails. In `nixl-ci-build-container-pr` #1012 (PR #2378), two of the four `Build image` branches failed with `fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com': terminal prompts disabled` / `ERROR: Subproject taskflow is buildable: NO`. - `prometheus-cpp` is an optional CMake subproject, so meson continues without it and the Prometheus telemetry exporter is not built. This already happened in CI on 2026-09-23 and 2026-09-28: `libtelemetry_exporter_prometheus.so` was missing and 15 `prometheusTelemetryTest` cases failed. `contrib/Dockerfile.manylinux` has the same unmounted `meson setup`, in the `wheel` stage. The PR wheel build (`build-wheel-matrix.yaml`) bound the github.com token only around the ci-demo build of `wheel_base`, so its `Build Wheel` step, which builds the `wheel` stage, passed no secret at all. Changes: - `contrib/Dockerfile`, `contrib/Dockerfile.manylinux`, `benchmark/nixlbench/contrib/Dockerfile`: mount `ghconfig` on the NIXL `meson setup` `RUN`. The later meson-python builds in the same Dockerfiles reuse the subprojects already downloaded into the source tree, and nixlbench's own subprojects are `[wrap-file]` tarballs, so these are the only `RUN`s that clone. - `.ci/jenkins/lib/build-wheel-matrix.yaml`: the `Build Wheel` step binds `svc-nixl-github-read-only-token`, writes `/tmp/ghconfig` with `write_github_gitconfig` (in a subshell, so sourcing `common.sh` does not change the build step's environment) and passes it as `--secret id=ghconfig,src=/tmp/ghconfig`, as `build-wheel-nightly-matrix.yaml` already does. - `.ci/docs/ci-overview.md`: cover the `meson setup` mounts and the wheel matrix in the authenticated-clones section. Not covered here: `nixl-ci-non-gpu`, `nixl-ci-gpu` and `nixl-ci-test-sanitizers` run `meson setup` directly in their containers rather than in an image build, so their `taskflow` and `prometheus-cpp` clones remain anonymous. Removing the configure-time clone is tracked separately. <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit * **Bug Fixes** * Fixed dependency downloads for NIXL builds that require GitHub authentication, including wheel and benchmark image builds. * **Documentation** * Clarified which build jobs pass GitHub credentials and which dependencies are fetched during setup. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> Signed-off-by: NirWolfer <nwolfer@nvidia.com>
`meson setup` clones the `taskflow` and `prometheus-cpp` `[wrap-git]` subprojects, plus prometheus-cpp's civetweb and googletest submodules, from github.com. The test pipelines run it through `.gitlab/build.sh` outside the image builds that #2310 and #2391 authenticate, so those clones are anonymous. When github.com answers an anonymous clone with an HTTP 401, `taskflow` fails `meson setup`, as in `nixl-ci-non-gpu` #3426 (PR #2378): ``` Cloning into 'taskflow'... fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com': No such device or address meson.build:233:16: ERROR: Git command failed: [... 'clone', '--depth', '1', '--branch', 'v3.10.0', 'https://github.com/taskflow/taskflow.git', 'taskflow'] ``` `prometheus-cpp` is optional, so the same failure on its clone drops the Prometheus telemetry exporter from the build instead. This happened on 2026-09-23 and 2026-09-28, and 15 `prometheusTelemetryTest` cases then failed because `libtelemetry_exporter_prometheus.so` was missing. Since `taskflow.wrap` became a `[wrap-git]` (#2121), the CI triage history shows these failures in `nixl-ci-non-gpu`, `-gpu`, `-dl-gpu-ep` and `-test-sanitizers`. This uses the same read-only token and `write_github_gitconfig` config file as #2310. Changes: - `.ci/jenkins/lib/build-matrix.yaml` (`nixl-ci-non-gpu`) and `test-sanitizer-matrix.yaml`: these run `build.sh` directly in the job container, so there is no image build to mount a secret into. The `Build` step binds `svc-nixl-github-read-only-token`, writes `/tmp/ghconfig` in a subshell, and exports `GIT_CONFIG_COUNT=1 GIT_CONFIG_KEY_0=include.path GIT_CONFIG_VALUE_0=/tmp/ghconfig`. Every git process the step starts inherits these variables, including meson's clones and their submodule fetches. `~/.gitconfig` is not written, and the variables carry only the file path. This needs git 2.31 or later; the CI images have 2.34 and 2.43. - `.ci/jenkins/lib/test-matrix.yaml`, `test-dl-matrix.yaml`, `test-vr-matrix.yaml` and `test-dl-ep-matrix.yaml`: the image-build step binds the token next to the Artifactory one, writes `/tmp/ghconfig` and passes `--secret id=ghconfig,src=/tmp/ghconfig` to `podman build`. - `.ci/dockerfiles/Dockerfile.gpu-test`: the `build.sh` `RUN` mounts the secret at its default `/run/secrets/ghconfig` (`mode=0444`, so the non-root build user can read it) and points `build.sh` at it with the same `GIT_CONFIG_*` variables. No home directory is involved, and the secret exists only for that `RUN`. - `.ci/docs/ci-overview.md`: add a section describing both paths. Without a token, or with an empty config, the clones stay anonymous as before. An invalid token fails them. Both wraps stay `[wrap-git]`. `prometheus-cpp` could later become a `[wrap-file]` using its uploaded `prometheus-cpp-with-submodules.tar.gz` release asset, but authentication already covers its clones. taskflow has no release asset, and its auto-generated GitHub archive changed hash once already, which is why #2121 switched it to `[wrap-git]`. <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit * **CI Improvements** * Build and test pipelines can now authenticate when fetching GitHub-hosted Meson subprojects. When no credentials are configured, fetching continues without authentication. * GitHub access failures, including invalid credentials, are reported during the affected builds. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> Signed-off-by: NirWolfer <nwolfer@nvidia.com>
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contrib/Dockerfile,contrib/Dockerfile.manylinuxandbenchmark/nixlbench/contrib/Dockerfileclone their third-party dependencies from github.com anonymously. github.com intermittently answers an anonymous clone with an HTTP 401 (www-authenticate: Basic realm="GitHub"). With no credential git tries to prompt, finds no TTY, and fails the image build:That message refers to the missing terminal, not to DNS or connectivity. Given a credential, git answers the 401 and the clone succeeds.
Second of three smaller PRs replacing #2263. Note this makes a 401 survivable; it does not reduce anonymous traffic, since git only sends credentials after a 401.
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RUNthat clones from github.com mounts an optional build secret,--mount=type=secret,id=ghconfig,target=/root/.gitconfig, holdinghttp.https://github.com/.extraheader = AUTHORIZATION: basic <base64 user:token>, so every github.com request is authenticated. Includes the$UCX_REPOclones. Without the secret the clone is anonymous, as today.ARG GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT=0alongside — anARG, so it does not persist into the shipped images.extraheaderrather than a URL rewrite or netrc: the token is sent proactively, never appears in a URL or ongit-remote-https's argv, and needs no percent-encoding. The flip side: an invalid token fails every github.com clone in these jobs instead of falling back to anonymous.contrib/build-container.shandbenchmark/nixlbench/contrib/build.sh: newDOCKER_BUILD_EXTRA_ARGS, a generic passthrough appended to theirdocker buildcommand. Empty by default, so the command is unchanged for everyone else; listed in--help.build-container.shdefaultsDOCKER_BUILDKIT=1(overridable).RUN --mountis rejected by Docker's legacy builder, which pre-23 Docker still uses by default; podman ignores the variable.nixlbench/contrib/build.shalready required BuildKit through--build-context.build-container-pr-matrix.yaml,build-container-matrix.yaml,build-wheel-nightly-matrix.yaml: the setup step bindssvc-nixl-github-read-only-tokenand callswrite_github_gitconfig /tmp/ghconfig(new,.ci/scripts/common.sh; tracing off, mode 600); each build step setsDOCKER_BUILD_EXTRA_ARGS="--secret id=ghconfig,src=/tmp/ghconfig"; the agent-side clones (ucx-src, nightlynixl-src) use the same file viagit -c include.path=/tmp/ghconfig, leaving existing global config intact.build-wheel-matrix.yamlis unchanged:--wheel-base-imageskips thewheel_basestage that holds the manylinux clones. That base andDockerfile.baseare built by ci-demo and come in the third PR..ci/docs/ci-overview.mdupdated.With the variable unset,
build-container.shproduces exactly the samedocker buildcommand asmain. The config writes were checked undersh -xe(Jenkins' default) and inside theset +x -vblock: correct content, mode 600, token absent from the output. The secret mount itself was verified on podman 5.7.1 against Ubuntu 22.04 / git 2.34.1 in the earlier investigation.Credential and exposure
svc-nixl-github-read-only-tokenis a fine-grained token with read-only access to public repositories and no other permissions. PR builds run PR-controlled Dockerfiles and scripts with it available — a PR cancatthe mounted config — so it must not carry write scopes, and it doesn't need any: the clones are public and the token only has to answer GitHub's 401. PR CI starts only after an authorized maintainer comments/build(blossom-ci.yml: the comment must be exactly/build, and theAuthorizationjob must accept the commenter).Builder behaviour without the secret
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RUN --mount=type=secretwhose secret is not passed, tested with the same mount line:--secretDOCKER_BUILDKIT=0)the --mount option requires BuildKitNo
# syntax=line: the legacy builder ignores it, so it would not help that case, and under BuildKit it would pull the frontend image from Docker Hub on every build. Built-in frontends since Docker 20.10 support secret mounts.Verified in CI with a temporary probe (since dropped) in the
nixl-ci-build-container-prnixlbuild: the secret reached the build, a public clone succeeded with the header sent, and nonexistent repos under bothabseilandai-dynamoreturnedrepository ... not found— the token is valid, used, and not blocked by either org.