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This PR adds a hands-on tutorial and reproducible manifests for Lab 20: Init and Sidecar Container GPU Resource Accounting under tutorials/labs/.

What This Lab Demonstrates:

  1. Regular Init Container Memory Shrink: Explains and verifies that regular run-to-completion init containers have their GPU memory reserved during initialization and reclaimed via post-init shrinking once exitCode == 0.
  2. Native Sidecar GPU Accounting (KEP-753): Explains and verifies that native sidecars (restartPolicy: Always in spec.initContainers) are accounted cumulatively with application containers and are never dropped by the shrink gate.
  3. Ordering-Aware Peak Formula: Demonstrates how declaration order impacts the peak allocation formula per HAMi PR #2723:
    13256\text{effective}[uuid] = \max\left( \max_{i \in \text{regular inits}} \left( \text{init}i[uuid] + \sum{j < i, j \in \text{sidecars}} \text{sidecar}_j[uuid] \right), \sum \text{apps}[uuid] + \sum \text{sidecars}[uuid] \right)13256
  4. Oversubscription Prevention: Demonstrates that competing workloads exceeding card capacity are safely held in Pending.
  5. No GPU Required: Can be reproduced locally on a laptop using fake GPU environments from Lab 2 (fake-gpu-operator) or Lab 5 (nvml-mock).

Files Added:

  • tutorials/labs/init-sidecar-container-accounting.md (Lab 20 tutorial)
  • tutorials/labs/examples/20-init-sidecar-accounting/01-regular-init-container.yaml
  • tutorials/labs/examples/20-init-sidecar-accounting/02-native-sidecar-container.yaml
  • tutorials/labs/examples/20-init-sidecar-accounting/03-mixed-workload-ordering.yaml
  • tutorials/labs/examples/20-init-sidecar-accounting/04-oversubscription-prevention.yaml
  • Registered in sidebars-tutorials.js

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  • Manifests validated as valid Kubernetes Pod resources

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Adds a Labs tutorial about GPU resource accounting for regular init containers and native sidecars. The tutorial includes setup instructions, Kubernetes Pod manifests, and walkthroughs of allocation changes for regular-init completion, persistent sidecars, mixed workloads, and competing workloads.

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GPU Accounting Lab

Layer / File(s) Summary
Lab entry and setup
sidebars-tutorials.js, tutorials/labs/init-sidecar-container-accounting.md
Adds the tutorial to the Labs sidebar and describes accounting concepts, lab steps, and cluster setup options.
Regular init and native sidecar accounting
tutorials/labs/examples/19-init-sidecar-accounting/01-regular-init-container.yaml, tutorials/labs/init-sidecar-container-accounting.md, tutorials/labs/examples/19-init-sidecar-accounting/02-native-sidecar-container.yaml
Adds manifests and walkthroughs showing regular-init allocation released after successful completion and native-sidecar allocation retained alongside app demand.
Mixed workloads and oversubscription
tutorials/labs/examples/19-init-sidecar-accounting/03-mixed-workload-ordering.yaml, tutorials/labs/init-sidecar-container-accounting.md, tutorials/labs/examples/19-init-sidecar-accounting/04-oversubscription-prevention.yaml
Adds mixed-workload and competing-Pod examples, their accounting walkthroughs, and a comparison of lifecycle and accounting rules.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~12 minutes

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 4f55d

The new Lab 19 tutorial cannot be followed as written. One recommended setup lacks memory accounting. An inspection command fails on the annotation format. On the recommended simulated GPUs, the oversubscription example would not stay Pending. Correct these steps before publishing so readers can reproduce the documented results.

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Review comments at @tutorials/labs/init-sidecar-container-accounting.md:
- Around line 265-268: Update the walkthrough around the post-init shrink claim
to observe HAMi’s node-level GPU usage after init completion and verify that it
falls to 4000 MiB; alternatively, demonstrate the shrink with a controlled
competing workload that can schedule only after capacity is released.
- Line 384: Update the Step 4 setup in the lab instructions to make the
card-capacity assumption reproducible: specify how to configure a single-card
environment with 8000 MiB, or adjust the Pod requests and device configuration
so no eligible card can fit the competing Pod. Keep the expected Pending result
consistent with the chosen setup.
- Line 34: Update the laptop setup guidance and the Lab 2 option in Step 1 to
stop presenting Lab 2: Local Fake GPU Setup as supported for this exercise.
Direct readers to Lab 5: Fake-GPU Scheduling with nvml-mock or a suitable GPU
cluster, while leaving unrelated lab content unchanged.
- Line 214: Update the Step 2 and Step 3 checks for
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2. How HAMi enforces **cumulative accounting** for native sidecar containers so they never oversubscribe the GPU.
3. How declaration ordering impacts the peak allocation formula.

Best of all: **no physical NVIDIA GPU is required**. You can run this entire lab on your laptop using either [Lab 2: Local Fake GPU Setup](./local-fake-gpu.md) or [Lab 5: Fake-GPU Scheduling with nvml-mock](./nvml-mock.md).

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Remove Lab 2 as a supported setup for this exercise.

Lab 2 simulates nvidia.com/gpu, but its guide says that the setup cannot verify nvidia.com/gpumem slicing or HAMi device-plugin registration. Those capabilities are required by this lab’s manifests and allocation checks. Direct readers to Lab 5 or a suitable GPU cluster instead, and update the Lab 2 option in Step 1. (github.com)

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Review comment at @tutorials/labs/init-sidecar-container-accounting.md at line
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Update the laptop setup guidance and the Lab 2 option in Step 1 to stop
presenting Lab 2: Local Fake GPU Setup as supported for this exercise. Direct
readers to Lab 5: Fake-GPU Scheduling with nvml-mock or a suitable GPU cluster,
while leaving unrelated lab content unchanged.

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Now, check the HAMi allocation annotation while the init container is running:

```bash
kubectl get pod regular-init-pod -o jsonpath='{.metadata.annotations.hami\.io/vgpu-devices-allocated}' | jq .

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Do not parse the HAMi allocation annotation as JSON.

HAMi emits hami.io/vgpu-devices-allocated as a delimited string such as GPU-…,NVIDIA,4000,0:;. jq . rejects that string, so the Step 2 check cannot produce the JSON shown below it. The Step 3 check on Line 344 has the same fault. Show the raw annotation and document its fields, or use a parser for HAMi’s format. (github.com)

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Review comment at @tutorials/labs/init-sidecar-container-accounting.md at line
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Update the Step 2 and Step 3 checks for hami.io/vgpu-devices-allocated so they
do not pipe the delimited annotation value to jq. Show the raw annotation and
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Comment on lines +265 to +268
Because `exitCode == 0`, HAMi's scheduler detects that the regular init container has completed. In `pkg/device/initContainer.go`, the **post-init shrink** fires:

- HAMi releases the 4000 MiB reserved for `model-prep`.
- The stored GPU usage on the node shrinks to **4000 MiB** (the application container's demand only), instead of accumulating to 8000 MiB!

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Add a check that observes post-init node usage.

The walkthrough checks the Pod’s allocation annotation before init completion, then checks only the Pod status and exit code afterward. Those checks do not demonstrate the claimed change in stored node usage from the init peak to 4000 MiB. Add an observation of HAMi’s node accounting after completion, or use a controlled competing workload that can schedule only after the shrink. (github.com)

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Update the walkthrough around the post-init shrink claim to observe HAMi’s
node-level GPU usage after init completion and verify that it falls to 4000 MiB;
alternatively, demonstrate the shrink with a controlled competing workload that
can schedule only after capacity is released.

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Why is this accounting critical? Let's demonstrate what happens when a competing pod attempts to schedule on the remaining GPU memory.

Assume our GPU has a total capacity of **8000 MiB**.

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Make the Step 4 card-capacity assumption reproducible.

The recommended Lab 5 setup simulates eight A100 GPUs with 40960 MiB per card. On an otherwise free card, the 6000 MiB sidecar Pod and 4000 MiB competing Pod fit together. The competitor therefore need not remain Pending, contrary to the expected result. Specify how to create an 8000 MiB single-card test environment, or adjust the requests and device configuration so no eligible card can fit the competitor. (github.com)

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Update the Step 4 setup in the lab instructions to make the card-capacity
assumption reproducible: specify how to configure a single-card environment with
8000 MiB, or adjust the Pod requests and device configuration so no eligible
card can fit the competing Pod. Keep the expected Pending result consistent with
the chosen setup.

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