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Summary

Pin the nvcre controller image by digest and guard the opt-in wiring invariants the component documents but nothing enforced.

Motivation / Context

The component was registered by #2524 with the controller image pinned by tag, so the artifact AICR qualifies is not provably the artifact it installs — a tag can be repointed at the registry after verification. ADR-025's release and supply chain gate requires no floating reference in a component definition.

Separately, several invariants the component depends on lived only in comments. The sharpest is the naming coupling: recipes/checks/nvcre/health-check.yaml asserts a literal nvcre-manager Deployment, and its own comment concedes the name "assumes components/nvcre/values.yaml sets fullnameOverride: nvcre". Changing either file alone installs a component that reports unhealthy for a reason that looks unrelated to the change.

Fixes: N/A (partial — #2684, #2685)
Related: #2683, #2524, #2541

Type of Change

  • Bug fix (non-breaking change that fixes an issue)
  • New feature (non-breaking change that adds functionality)
  • Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)
  • Documentation update
  • Refactoring (no functional changes)
  • Build/CI/tooling

Component(s) Affected

  • CLI (cmd/aicr, pkg/cli)
  • API server (cmd/aicrd, pkg/server)
  • Recipe engine / data (pkg/recipe)
  • Bundlers (pkg/bundler, pkg/component/*)
  • Collectors / snapshotter (pkg/collector, pkg/snapshotter)
  • Validator (pkg/validator)
  • Core libraries (pkg/errors, pkg/k8s)
  • Docs/examples (docs/, examples/) — regenerated BOM only

Implementation Notes

Digest form. manager.image.tag: v0.2.0@sha256:b7f7a71a…, pinned to the multi-arch index digest rather than a per-arch manifest so the pin stays correct on both arm64 and amd64.

The chart also exposes a first-class manager.image.digest field, whose own comment makes exactly ADR-025's argument. It was not used, because that branch renders repository@digest and drops the version, while tag@digest pins and keeps v0.2.0 legible in docs/user/container-images.md. The latter also matches how every other pinned image in recipes/components/ is written (busybox:1.38.0@sha256:…, ubuntu:26.04@sha256:…, nccl-plugin-gpudirecttcpx-dev:v1.0.15@sha256:…). Both forms were rendered with helm template and compared before choosing. The guard test accepts the pin in either field, so switching later needs no test change.

Credential hedge replaced with a fact. Both the values file and the registry entry warned that chart pulls "may require GHCR credentials depending on registry policy." They do not — helm pull oci://ghcr.io/nvidia/cluster-readiness-engine --version v0.2.0 succeeds against an empty HELM_REGISTRY_CONFIG. Both comments now say so.

Why the guards are not a walker. #2685 describes checking every componentRef naming nvcre. A walker over recipes/overlays/ and recipes/mixins/ would be dead code: the pre-existing TestNVCRERegisteredWithoutOverlay forbids nvcre from appearing in either, and that invariant is load-bearing (ADR-025 makes stock adoption a separate decision). The invariants are therefore asserted against the values file itself and against the documented fragment, which is where they can actually drift.

What the five new tests hold:

Test Invariant
TestNVCREValuesFileMatchesHealthCheck fullnameOverride-derived Deployment name and namespace match what the health check asserts and the registry installs into
TestNVCREValuesPinControllerImageByDigest The controller image stays digest-pinned, in either tag or digest
TestNVCREValuesDisableServiceMonitor metrics.serviceMonitor.enabled stays false, so install needs no prometheus-operator CRDs
TestNVCRERefWithoutValuesFileResolvesEmpty A ref omitting valuesFile resolves to an empty map — pins the documented trap, so adding name-based value discovery fails loudly instead of quietly invalidating the docs
TestNVCREDocumentedTrainerSourceProvidesTrainer platform=kubeflow still supplies kubeflow-trainer, the Trainer source the "Enabling NVCRE" fragment tells adopters to use

Testing

make bom-docs                                              # regenerated; one-line diff
go test ./tools/bom/...                                    # BOM freshness gate: ok
go test -race ./pkg/recipe/...                             # ok (4 packages)
golangci-lint run -c .golangci.yaml ./pkg/recipe/...       # 0 issues
yamllint recipes/components/nvcre/values.yaml recipes/registry.yaml  # clean

BOM diff is exactly the intended line:

-- `ghcr.io/nvidia/cluster-readiness-engine/manager:v0.2.0`
+- `ghcr.io/nvidia/cluster-readiness-engine/manager:v0.2.0@sha256:b7f7a71a…`

Each new guard was mutation-checked — reverting the pin to a plain tag, renaming fullnameOverride, and enabling the ServiceMonitor each produce a failure naming the drift:

components/nvcre/values.yaml: controller image is not digest-pinned (manager.image.tag="v0.2.0", ...)
checks/nvcre/health-check.yaml asserts Deployment "nvcre-manager", but components/nvcre/values.yaml renders "nvcre-renamed-manager"
components/nvcre/values.yaml: metrics.serviceMonitor.enabled must stay false ...

Coverage: pkg/recipe gains tests only, no new exported functions, so no per-package decrease.

Not run: full make qualify (e2e/scan legs need tooling not installed locally — apidiff and go-licenses are reported missing by make tools-check). The gates relevant to these paths are above.

Risk Assessment

  • Low — Isolated change, well-tested, easy to revert
  • Medium — Touches multiple components or has broader impact
  • High — Breaking change, affects critical paths, or complex rollout

Rollout notes: No shipped overlay or mixin references nvcre, so the values change reaches only callers who have explicitly opted in. Reverting is a one-line change plus make bom-docs.

One ongoing cost worth naming: the digest must be re-resolved whenever defaultVersion moves. The values file carries the crane digest command inline, and the ownsCRDs audit already re-arms on a defaultVersion change, so this fits the existing chart-bump procedure.

Checklist

  • Tests pass locally (make test with -race) — affected packages
  • Linter passes (make lint) — golangci-lint + yamllint on affected paths
  • I did not skip/disable tests to make CI green
  • I added/updated tests for new functionality
  • I updated docs if user-facing behavior changed — BOM regenerated; catalog prose already described the wiring
  • Changes follow existing patterns in the codebase
  • Commits are cryptographically signed (git commit -S)

The component pinned the controller image by tag, so the artifact AICR
qualifies is not provably the artifact it installs -- a tag can be
repointed at the registry after verification. ADR-025's release and
supply chain gate requires no floating reference in a component
definition.

Pin manager.image.tag to the v0.2.0 multi-arch index digest and
regenerate the BOM. The tag@digest form matches every other pinned
image in recipes/components/ and keeps the version legible in the BOM;
the chart's first-class manager.image.digest field renders
repository@digest instead, dropping the version.

Also replace the values file's hedge about GHCR credentials with the
verified result: helm pull against an empty registry config succeeds,
so no pull secret is required for the chart or the image.

Signed-off-by: Rohit Rajani <rorajani@nvidia.com>
Four invariants the nvcre component documents but nothing enforced:

- fullnameOverride decides the rendered Deployment name and the health
  check asserts that name as a literal. Changing one without the other
  installs a component that reports unhealthy for an unrelated-looking
  reason. Now compared across both files, with the namespace checked
  against the registry.
- The controller image pin must stay a digest. Accepts the pin in either
  manager.image.tag or manager.image.digest, since the chart renders
  both.
- metrics.serviceMonitor.enabled must stay false, or install starts
  requiring prometheus-operator CRDs an opt-in adopter has no reason to
  have.
- A ref that omits valuesFile resolves to an empty map. Pinning that
  makes the catalog's warning testable, and turns a future change to
  name-based value discovery into a failing test rather than silent
  drift in the docs.

Also guards that platform=kubeflow still supplies kubeflow-trainer, the
Trainer source the Enabling NVCRE fragment tells adopters to use.

A walker asserting these over overlays and mixins would be dead code:
TestNVCRERegisteredWithoutOverlay forbids nvcre from appearing in either,
so the invariants are checked against the values file and the documented
fragment instead.

Each guard was mutation-checked to confirm it fails on the drift it
describes. Also drops the same stale GHCR-credential hedge from the
registry comment.

Signed-off-by: Rohit Rajani <rorajani@nvidia.com>
@rorajani rorajani added the theme/supply-chain SLSA, SBOM, Sigstore, and provenance verification label Sep 17, 2026
@rorajani rorajani changed the title fix(recipes): pin nvcre controller image by digest and guard opt-in wiring fix(recipes): pin nvcre image by digest and guard opt-in wiring Sep 17, 2026
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Recipe evidence check

Registry change: scoped to recipes that reference a changed component
entry in recipes/registry.yaml (not every leaf).

Other affected recipes without evidence yet: 1

These recipes are affected by this PR but carry no committed evidence pointer, so there is
nothing to verify. This is expected — evidence is hardware-gated and added over time.

  • h100-gke-cos-training-kubeflow

This gate is warning-only and never blocks merge. See ADR-007 for the trust model.

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NVCRE documentation now pins the v0.2.0 image with a SHA-256 digest and documents anonymous chart and controller image pulls. The NVCRE values file configures the digest-pinned controller image. New registry tests validate values-file and health-check alignment, image digest pinning, disabled ServiceMonitor installation, values-file resolution behavior, and Kubeflow Trainer provisioning.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: yuanchen8911

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 11d74

This PR pins the NVCRE controller image by digest and adds new tests meant to protect several opt-in safety invariants (disabled ServiceMonitor, digest pinning). Two of those new guard tests have gaps that would let a future regression slip through undetected — one could let ServiceMonitor accidentally get enabled (breaking installs that lack the required CRDs), and one could let a malformed image digest pass validation. Neither is an active production defect today, but tightening these checks before merge would ensure the new safeguards actually catch the regressions they're meant to prevent.

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In `@pkg/recipe/nvcre_registry_test.go`:
- Line 156: Update the digest validation in the affected test to parse the
selected digest value and require a syntactically valid SHA-256 digest, rather
than merely checking for the “sha256:” substring. Preserve the existing
tag-or-digest selection behavior while rejecting malformed values such as
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// repository:tag otherwise, so either field can carry the pin.
digest, _ := image["digest"].(string)
tag, _ := image["tag"].(string)
if !strings.Contains(digest, "sha256:") && !strings.Contains(tag, "sha256:") {

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Validate a syntactically valid SHA-256 digest.

strings.Contains accepts malformed values such as sha256:not-a-digest. The test then passes although Helm will render an image reference that cannot be pulled. Parse the selected digest and require the SHA-256 algorithm.

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In `@pkg/recipe/nvcre_registry_test.go` at line 156, Update the digest validation
in the affected test to parse the selected digest value and require a
syntactically valid SHA-256 digest, rather than merely checking for the
“sha256:” substring. Preserve the existing tag-or-digest selection behavior
while rejecting malformed values such as “sha256:not-a-digest”.

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if !ok {
t.Fatalf("%s: metrics.serviceMonitor block missing", nvcreValuesFile)
}
if enabled, _ := serviceMonitor["enabled"].(bool); enabled {

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Require metrics.serviceMonitor.enabled to be explicitly false.

This type assertion treats a missing or non-boolean field as false. If the values file deletes enabled, the chart default enables the ServiceMonitor, but this guard passes. Fail when the field is absent, not a boolean, or true.

Proposed fix
-	if enabled, _ := serviceMonitor["enabled"].(bool); enabled {
+	enabled, ok := serviceMonitor["enabled"].(bool)
+	if !ok || enabled {
 		t.Errorf("%s: metrics.serviceMonitor.enabled must stay false until a recipe that installs "+
 			"prometheus-operator CRDs opts in", nvcreValuesFile)
 	}
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if enabled, _ := serviceMonitor["enabled"].(bool); enabled {
enabled, ok := serviceMonitor["enabled"].(bool)
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In `@pkg/recipe/nvcre_registry_test.go` at line 179, Update the ServiceMonitor
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