feat(recipes): OKE RDMA fabric wiring (L40S RoCE + GB200 IB)

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Summary

Upstreams the OKE RDMA fabric: network-operator with manifest-supplied NicClusterPolicies on both OKE training chains (L40S SR-IOV/RoCE, GB200 IB), the GB200 kernel-module-params wiring, and the nccl-all-reduce-bw-net performance gate with its embedded TrainingRuntime — closing the gb200-oke-training "NET/RDMA intentionally left out until OCI-specific pod RDMA exposure is verified" carve-out.

Motivation / Context

The exposure the carve-out was waiting for exists and is production-validated: a BM.GPU.GB200.4 NVL72 rack (IB east-west over rdma0-3, rdmaSharedDevicePlugin, both NCCL variants passing) and a BM.GPU.L40S.4 RoCE cluster (SR-IOV VFs via device IDs 101a/101e, nv-ipam + multus). This PR ports that configuration from the downstream data repo, de-specialized: hardcoded scheduling taxonomy replaced by the bundler's system-node scheduling injection, downstream-only tolerations and resource aliases dropped.

Stacked on the OKE gpuStack profile PR — the fabric is deliberately present in every profile value (orthogonal to driver/plugin ownership); retargets when the base merges.

Fixes: #2345
Related: #2344, #1716

Type of Change

• New feature (non-breaking change that adds functionality)

Component(s) Affected

• Recipe engine / data (pkg/recipe)
• Validator (pkg/validator)
• Docs/examples (docs/, examples/)

Implementation Notes

• No ofedDriver anywhere, in any configuration: OCI nodes carry host MOFED in every image (Oracle and BYO alike). The device-plugin corollary (MOFED_ENABLED=false) landed in the profile PR.
• One resource name across fabrics: both plugins advertise nvidia.com/mlnxnics, so workloads request RDMA uniformly on OKE.
• deployCR: false + manifest CR: the manifest is the only place the OCI VF selectors / IB ifNames can be expressed; the CR carries the standard post-install Helm hook annotations (deployment-ordering test enforces them).
• GPUDirect via DMA-BUF, peermem off: on L40S every GPU↔NIC PCIe path is NODE/SYS (peermem inert, measured); on GB200 peermem's chroot modprobe fails against the -64k Grace kernel. GB200 needs NVreg_GrdmaPciTopoCheckOverride=1 (kernel-module-params ConfigMap, already embedded — this PR adds the wiring).
• NET gate: supportedNCCLCombinations[variantNET] gains oke/gb200 with testdata/gb200/oke/runtime-net.yaml (NVLS/MNNVL forced off; transport confirmed from the NCCL banner). Constraint >= 40 matches gb200-eks-training.
• Incompatibility with Oracle's opt-in NvidiaNetworkOperator add-on documented on the componentRefs (two lifecycle managers, one release).

Testing

make qualify   # green

• L40S and GB200 bundles render the operator + -post NicClusterPolicy wrapper; ofedDriver absent from both rendered CRs; GB200 bundle carries the kernel-module-params ConfigMap.
• TestOKEPerformanceGoalsFollowTrainingInferencePattern updated for the NET check on all three gb200 training leaves; TestNCCLCombinationSupported OKE NET row flipped to covered; parity goldens + BOM regenerated (four NicClusterPolicy image digest exemptions — triplet CRD schema, same as AKS).

Risk Assessment

• Medium — Touches multiple components or has broader impact

Rollout notes: Additive for existing OKE users without RDMA-capable pools (the NicClusterPolicy DaemonSets simply schedule nowhere without matching NICs). Clusters running Oracle's NvidiaNetworkOperator add-on must disable it before deploying these bundles.

Checklist

• Tests pass locally (make test with -race)
• Linter passes (make lint)
• 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 cryptographically signed (git commit -S)

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Other affected recipes without evidence yet: 4

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.

• gb200-oke-training
• gb200-oke-ubuntu-training-kubeflow
• gb200-oke-ubuntu-training
• l40s-oke-training

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The change adds OKE GB200 InfiniBand and L40S RoCE Network Operator configuration. It adds GB200 OKE NCCL NET runtime validation and updates training recipe expectations. It introduces Docker image caching for KWOK CI with retry, save, load, workflow, documentation, and test support. It also narrows Trainer Deployment detection to the Kubernetes apps API group and updates toleration aliasing tests.

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The PR adds OKE RDMA fabric configuration and related validation and CI changes. It is mergeable with owner awareness for two bounded test and CI correctness issues: image digest exemptions should be scoped more narrowly, and cache-budget exhaustion can produce misleading cache diagnostics.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Out of Scope Changes check	⚠️ Warning	The pull request includes unrelated image-cache CI changes and trainer lifecycle refactoring, including the KWOK image-cache library, workflow updates, preload retry changes, and apps API-group change…	Remove the unrelated KWOK image-cache, preload retry, and trainer lifecycle changes from this pull request, or split them into separate pull requests with their own objectives and linked issues.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes satisfy issue #2345 by adding the OKE network-operator configuration, manifest-supplied NicClusterPolicies, GB200 DMA-BUF kernel parameters, disabled peermem and OFED configuration, and NE…
Description check	✅ Passed	The description clearly explains the OKE RDMA fabric wiring, affected profiles, performance validation, implementation choices, testing, and rollout risks.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title concisely and accurately summarizes the main change: OKE RDMA fabric wiring for L40S RoCE and GB200 InfiniBand.

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The changes satisfy issue #2345 by adding the OKE network-operator configuration, manifest-supplied NicClusterPolicies, GB200 DMA-BUF kernel parameters, disabled peermem and OFED configuration, and NET NCCL validation with a minimum bandwidth of 40 alongside NVLS validation.

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The pull request includes unrelated image-cache CI changes and trainer lifecycle refactoring, including the KWOK image-cache library, workflow updates, preload retry changes, and apps API-group changes. These changes are not required for the RDMA fabric wiring or GB200 NET validation objectives.

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Rebased onto the rebuilt #2355 head (93cc3a4c, which now sits directly on merged main) — old HEAD c5b54aec, new HEAD df9a9f0f. Content unchanged (fabric wiring is orthogonal to the #2355 constraint rework); goldens/BOM regenerated on the new base; recipe, bundler, recipes, and performance-validator tests green.

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Rebased onto the amended #2355 head (40e2a0a0); goldens re-verified, tests green — old HEAD df9a9f0f, new HEAD 4f092f15.

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De-stacked: this branch is now based directly on main (old HEAD 4f092f15, new HEAD cfe0560f) — the fabric wiring has no dependency on the gpuStack profile PR (#2355), so it can review and merge independently. Content unchanged; goldens/BOM regenerated on the new base; bundler, recipe, recipes, and performance-validator tests green.

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Rebased onto current main and hardened per review — old HEAD cfe0560f, new HEAD 057148ea. The digest-exemption map is now manifest-scoped (all entries, not just this PR's four); goldens/BOM regenerated; recipe/bundler/recipes/performance green.