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Summary

Adds signed recipe evidence for vr200-nvke-ubuntu-inference-dynamo and vr200-nvke-ubuntu-training-kubeflow. It also adds their entries in the embedded evidence index and a community allowlist entry for the signer. Both recipes were validated on an NVKE VR200 tenant cluster: training with AICR main d2db93111, and inference with main 0cf4a6543, which includes #3715.

Motivation / Context

This is the first signed recipe evidence for VR200 on NVKE. The VR200 NVKE CNCF AI conformance submissions (#3621 training, #3695 inference) carry behavioral evidence, but no signed AICR attestation.

Fixes: N/A
Related: #3711, #3715, #3695, #3621

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)
  • Bundler and deployers (pkg/bundler, pkg/component)
  • Collectors / snapshotter (pkg/collector, pkg/snapshotter)
  • Validator (pkg/validator)
  • Core libraries (pkg/errors, pkg/k8s)
  • Docs/examples (docs/, examples/)
  • Other: recipe evidence pointers (recipes/evidence/) and the evidence index (pkg/evidence/index/pointers.yaml)

Implementation Notes

Cluster.

  • NVKE tenant cluster on Kubernetes v1.36.3.
  • 2x VR200 trays with 4 GPUs each, in one NVLink domain.
  • Ubuntu 26.04, kernel 7.0.0-2022-nvidia-bos-64k.

Deployment.

  • Each recipe was deployed from scratch from its own bundle.
  • Both bundles were built with --accelerated-node-selector nvidia.com/gpu.deploy.driver=true. This keeps the DRA kubelet plugin off the GPU-less control plane.
  • The inference bundle was also built with --set agentgateway:serviceType=ClusterIP, because the tenant has no LoadBalancer. docs/integrator/nvke-vr200-setup.md prescribes this.
  • Validation used aicr validate --phase all --emit-attestation, with validator images pinned to the :sha- tag of the commit each run used.

Results.

  • vr200-nvke-ubuntu-inference-dynamo: deployment 4/4, conformance 10/10. It was re-run at 0cf4a6543 because fix(recipes): agentgateway health check asserts the Gateway CR #3715 changed the recipe after the first run, and the new pointer replaces the stale one.
  • vr200-nvke-ubuntu-training-kubeflow: deployment 4/4, conformance 5/5.
  • Training performance: nccl-all-reduce-bw-nvls passed at 1044.01 GB/s; the floor is 600.
  • nccl-all-reduce-bw-net was withheld with --skip-check, and the bundle records it as skipped (named-in-skip-checks). The overlay prescribes this: these trays' DPUs do not bridge the spare ConnectX-9 ports, so the cluster has no east-west NIC path.

Signing.

  • The bundles are in ghcr.io/xdu31/aicr-evidence, which is public.
  • They were signed by the fork's evidence-publish.yaml on refs/heads/evidence/nvke, with Rekor entries 190504413 (inference) and 189860404 (training).
  • The new community allowlist source is c0e6951cd501b85118706a01b76f2bb5, labeled xdu31.

Trusted registry. A repo admin added ghcr.io/xdu31 to EVIDENCE_TRUSTED_REGISTRIES, so ingest can count this evidence on validation.aicr.run.

Testing

go run ./tools/evidence-pointercheck -root recipes/evidence   # OK: all committed pointers honor the per-source contract
go test ./pkg/evidence/... -count=1                             # 10 packages ok

make qualify was not run. The change is data only, and the targeted evidence checks above cover it.

Risk Assessment

  • Low: data only. It adds two pointers, one allowlist entry, and the regenerated index.
  • Medium: Touches multiple components or has broader impact.
  • High: Breaking change, affects critical paths, or complex rollout.

Rollout notes: N/A

Checklist

  • Tests pass locally (make test with -race). Only the evidence packages were run, as above.
  • Linter passes (make lint). It was not run, because the change is data only.
  • 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
  • Changes follow existing patterns in the codebase
  • Commits are signed off and cryptographically signed (git commit -s -S). The signing commit is GitHub-signed by the workflow.

xdu31 and others added 3 commits November 8, 2026 09:11
Unsigned flat pointers for vr200-nvke-ubuntu-inference-dynamo and vr200-nvke-ubuntu-training-kubeflow. The bundles are in ghcr.io/xdu31/aicr-evidence, validated on aicr d2db931. The training run withholds nccl-all-reduce-bw-net: this cluster has no east-west NIC path, as the overlay notes. The fork's Recipe Evidence: Sign workflow signs them on push.

Signed-off-by: Jayson Du <jaydu@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: github-actions[bot] <41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Community entry for xdu31/aicr's evidence-publish workflow on refs/heads/evidence/nvke (source c0e6951cd501b85118706a01b76f2bb5), which signed the vr200-nvke-ubuntu-inference-dynamo and vr200-nvke-ubuntu-training-kubeflow pointers. pointers.yaml regenerated.

Signed-off-by: Jayson Du <jaydu@nvidia.com>
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Recipes with committed evidence (recipes/evidence/<slug>/<source>/<digest>.yaml) that this PR affects: 2

Recipe Source Pointer Verify Digest match
vr200-nvke-ubuntu-inference-dynamo c0e6951cd501b85118706a01b76f2bb5 sha256-751ec0fe80b9cdac04444175e3bd74819f2df27fa2fc15d3f8feb27fcbfc9d1d ✅ passed ✅ matches
vr200-nvke-ubuntu-training-kubeflow c0e6951cd501b85118706a01b76f2bb5 sha256-659873441562070ad4d611ff59df70925f309f2b2579adf5debc038545b2ad56 ✅ passed ✅ matches

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The change adds a community signer to the allowlist, attestation records for the VR200 inference and training recipes, and evidence index entries that reference their shared source slug.

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  • NVIDIA/aicr issue 3155 — The inference attestation records a bundle digest, which relates to the issue’s objective of keeping evidence digests current.

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Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review 6336f

The new VR200 evidence will not reach the dashboard, and the push-triggered ingest job will fail, until the registry is added to the trusted-registry repository variable. Update that variable before or together with the merge.

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The change adds one trusted publishing identity without weakening the existing signature or publication safeguards. Its authorization can apply beyond the two added recipes. The publisher’s registry approval and referenced signed bundles were not independently confirmed.

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  • inferred — Control of the allowlisted evidence-publish workflow identity on xdu31/aicr’s evidence/nvke branch can authorize community evidence contributions. The allowlist is signer-scoped, not recipe-scoped, so future admitted evidence from that identity could affect other recipes’ corroboration. The present index contains only the two VR200 additions; no deployment or cloud-credential authority is granted by this entry.

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  • observed — The structural pointer-tree check classifies claimed signer fields without cryptographically verifying the bundle. That is not the publication authority: authoritative ingestion pins verification to the claimed issuer and exact identity, derives actual signer claims from the verified certificate, and rejects mismatches before synthesis.

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  • observed — Invalid, incomplete, canceled, or unknown verification verdicts are rejected before synthesis. Same-reference workflow runs are serialized without canceling an in-progress run, and failed pointer batches cannot reach the credentialed publication job. These existing controls are unchanged by the new signer and records.
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No blocking issues; 1 non-blocking comment.

The inference-dynamo pointer was attested at d2db931, before NVIDIA#3715
changed the agentgateway component, so its recipe digest no longer
matched main. Validation was re-run at 0cf4a65 with the bundle built
with --set agentgateway:serviceType=ClusterIP, as the NVKE VR200 guide
prescribes for a tenant with no LoadBalancer: deployment 4/4,
conformance 10/10. The recipe digest is now 5b28f5668b07.

This replaces the stale pointer with the new unsigned one. The fork's
evidence-publish workflow signs it and relocates it under the same
source, so the allowlist and the index are unchanged.

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Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win

Sign and relocate the inference pointer.

This pointer is unsigned and remains at the evidence root. The pointer check rejects it, and TestPointersYAMLMatchesTree fails. If merged, ingest also skips it because it has no signer. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

Run the fork’s signing workflow and commit the relocated pointer under vr200-nvke-ubuntu-inference-dynamo/c0e6951cd501b85118706a01b76f2bb5/. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Update the inference pointer represented by attestations so it is signed and
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oci: ghcr.io/xdu31/aicr-evidence:vr200-nvke-ubuntu-inference-dynamo-e38ab3168869

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Trust the bundle registry before merging.

The PR states that ghcr.io/xdu31 is not in EVIDENCE_TRUSTED_REGISTRIES. The push-triggered ingest will therefore reject this pointer and fail the job, so the evidence will not reach the dashboard. Add the required registry prefix before merge, while preserving the existing trusted prefixes. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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LGTM.

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