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kill-all/kill-function deleted the ICMSRequest CR and reported success, but that alone never terminates the workload: the CR stays stuck Terminating behind its finalizer forever, the pod (or MiniService) keeps running, and the function stays ACTIVE. This fix makes the commands actually terminate the workload, not just ask NVCA to and hope, and fails closed rather than reporting false success when eviction can't be confirmed.

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A prior fix (PR #1053, merged) corrected the CLI's reporting — it no longer falsely claims [deleted] when the object is still Terminating. QA re-verification of that fix (bug reopened) showed the underlying problem it explicitly flagged as out of scope is real: kill-all could wait indefinitely and still never succeed, because deleting the CR structurally cannot cause termination.

Traced the full mechanism in NVCA's reconciler (src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/):

  • The deletion-handling branch of syncICMSRequest only checks AllInstancesTerminatedAndReported and requeues forever if false. It never evicts anything itself.
  • That check requires, on the same CR's own status.instances: the workload gone from Kubernetes AND lastReportedStatus == "terminated".
  • The only code that ever sets lastReportedStatus == "terminated" for a Pod instance is ApplyTerminationMessage, reachable only from a genuine upstream ICMS termination queue message — and it writes to that message's own CR, never back onto the original one. Nothing bridges instance status between two different CRs.

So kill-all was built on an incorrect assumption (delete the CR -> NVCA notices and cleans up). Confirmed live on a local k3d cluster: manually deleting the pod and patching the original CR's own status.instances[id].lastReportedStatus to terminated is what let NVCA's existing, unmodified reconcile clear the finalizer on its own next pass.

The fix: killMatching (k8s_maintainer.go) now calls a new evictInstances before deleting each ICMSRequest CR. It deletes the CR's Pod-type instances directly (or the MiniService object for a Helm function — its own controller performs real teardown when deleted, so no separate resource-deletion step is needed there), and patches lastReportedStatus to terminated on that same CR, satisfying NVCA's own precondition so its reconcile finishes the job for real. If eviction fails for any reason, the item is reported as failed and the CR is left alone rather than proceeding to delete it — this matters most with --force, which would otherwise strip the finalizer and report success while the workload keeps running.

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Core change is evictInstances in internal/clusteragent/k8s_maintainer.go, called from killMatching right before deleteICMSRequest. Please look closely at:

  • The doc comment on evictInstances — it lays out why deleting the CR alone can never work, and why MiniService deletion doesn't need the same active-teardown workaround Pod deletion does.
  • killMatching's handling of an evictInstances failure: it now fails the item and skips deleteICMSRequest entirely, rather than logging and continuing best-effort.
  • Instance-type resolution: instanceType is checked first, falling back to the legacy type field (matching the inspector's own tolerant reads), and an unrecognized type is left alone rather than guessed at.
  • The status-patch retry loop merges lastReportedStatus into whatever is currently on the server instead of overwriting the whole instance record with the pre-eviction snapshot, so a concurrent NVCA status update isn't clobbered.
  • README changes: corrected a previously-inaccurate claim that "the NVCA reconciler detects the deletion and evicts the workloads" (it doesn't), and added the new required RBAC (delete on Pods, delete on MiniService CRs, update on the ICMSRequest status subresource).

For QA

  • New regression tests in k8s_maintainer_test.go: TestKillEvictsPodBackedInstanceAndMarksItTerminated, TestKillEvictsMiniServiceBackedInstanceAndMarksItTerminated, TestKillEvictsLegacyTypeMiniServiceInstance, TestKillStopsOnEvictionFailureInsteadOfReportingSuccess, TestKillPropagatesMalformedInstanceStatusError. Each was verified to fail against the corresponding pre-fix behavior and pass against the fix.
  • go build ./..., go vet ./..., gofmt -l: clean.
  • go test ./... (full module): all pass.
  • Verified live against a local k3d cluster: hand-created a Pod + ICMSRequest with the real finalizer (reproducing the exact stuck state and log line from QA's reopening note), ran kill-function, confirmed the pod and CR both fully disappear and get-function correctly reports "no scheduled function found" afterward — matching the bug's Expected Behavior exactly.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Cluster-agent kill operations now evict Pod- and MiniService-backed workloads before deleting requests.
    • Instances are marked as terminated after successful eviction, including when deletion is delayed.
    • Failed evictions, invalid status data, and unsupported instance types now prevent request deletion and preserve the underlying error.
    • Legacy MiniService instance types are handled correctly.
    • Forced finalizer removal remains available for stuck requests.
  • Documentation

    • Updated required permissions to include deletion of cluster-scoped MiniService resources.

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Cluster-agent kill operations now evict Pod and MiniService instances, mark them terminated, and delete the ICMSRequest only after successful eviction. Invalid or unsupported instance data prevents forced deletion. Documentation and regression tests cover the behavior.

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ICMSRequest termination

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MiniService eviction and resource contract
src/clis/nvcf-cli/internal/clusteragent/k8s_inspector.go, src/clis/nvcf-cli/internal/clusteragent/k8s_maintainer.go, src/clis/nvcf-cli/README.md
The cluster agent defines the cluster-scoped MiniService resource. Kill operations evict MiniService-backed instances, including legacy records that use type. Documentation adds the required MiniService deletion permission.
Eviction failure handling and status updates
src/clis/nvcf-cli/internal/clusteragent/k8s_maintainer_test.go
Tests verify terminated status updates, failed eviction handling, malformed instance data handling, unsupported instance types, and preserved ICMSRequests.
Kill-path regression coverage
src/clis/nvcf-cli/internal/clusteragent/k8s_maintainer_test.go
The fake dynamic client registers MiniService resources. Tests cover Pod eviction, MiniService eviction, and legacy MiniService type detection.

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The change makes workload termination fail closed and includes the stated validation and documentation updates; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Operator
  participant ClusterAgentMaintainer
  participant Kubernetes
  Operator->>ClusterAgentMaintainer: run kill command
  ClusterAgentMaintainer->>Kubernetes: read ICMSRequest instances
  Kubernetes-->>ClusterAgentMaintainer: instance records
  ClusterAgentMaintainer->>Kubernetes: delete Pod or MiniService
  Kubernetes-->>ClusterAgentMaintainer: eviction result
  ClusterAgentMaintainer->>Kubernetes: update terminated statuses
  ClusterAgentMaintainer->>Kubernetes: delete ICMSRequest after successful eviction
  Kubernetes-->>Operator: deleted or terminating
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In `@src/clis/nvcf-cli/internal/clusteragent/k8s_maintainer_test.go`:
- Around line 871-882: Shorten the comment above
TestKillEvictsPodBackedInstanceAndMarksItTerminated by removing the reopened-bug
history and live-cluster debugging narrative. Keep only a concise explanation of
the delete reactor’s purpose if needed, using plain ASCII.

In `@src/clis/nvcf-cli/internal/clusteragent/k8s_maintainer.go`:
- Around line 519-521: Update the termination flow around evictInstances to
return immediately when eviction fails, preventing ICMSRequest deletion and
success reporting; preserve the existing warning while propagating the error. In
evictInstances, return malformed status.instances errors with %w instead of
converting them to nil, and add regressions covering forbidden Pod deletion and
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lastReportedStatus from the terminated record, and write the merged map back
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regression test covering a MiniService with no instanceType.
- Around line 513-520: The eviction failure warning in the deleteICMSRequest
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Do not log an error that this method returns.

Line 520 logs err. Line 524 wraps the same error for return through aggregateKillError. Remove the warning and return the contextual error once.

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error-collection mechanism so evictInstances reports failure and killMatching
preserves the ICMSRequest. Keep recognized Pod, MiniService, and legacy type
handling unchanged, preserving fail-closed behavior.

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- Around line 1759-1773: Update the function lifecycle diagram in architecture
documentation to include the CLI kill path: direct Pod or MiniService eviction,
updating ICMSRequest.status.instances to terminated, deleting the CR, and NVCA
or --force finalizer handling.

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