feat(stargate): add multi-cluster development deployment

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Why

Add a reproducible development environment for comparing WaitAndWiden (WaW) with PowerOf2 across regional boundaries. Controlled backend capacity, cache behavior, calibration, and workload inputs make routing tradeoffs measurable before production rollout.

The stack is an example. deploy/stacks/stargate-dev/README.md describes it as a generic AWS development deployment, lists the AWS resources a deployment provides (account, EKS clusters, load balancer controller, ACM certificate, DNS, registry, optional Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus and IAM roles), and maps every checked-in placeholder to the protected value that replaces it. Checked-in account IDs, ARNs, hostnames, image references and network ranges are placeholders such as 000000000000, example.invalid and 192.0.2.1/32; real values live only in a protected file outside the repository.

Performance report

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The report compares WaW and Pulsar-WaW on this five-region development fleet in two shapes with the same 220 GPUs: a heterogeneous fleet of 20 backends with 2-20 GPUs each, and a homogeneous fleet with 11 GPUs per backend. Each fleet run is matched by a simulator run with the same seed, workload, engine model and routing configuration. The main campaign uses a half-scale mock engine (twice the step cost, half the KV cache), which moves saturation to rates the development nodes serve without CPU limits; no Pylon or MockDynamo container was CPU-throttled in any run (maximum throttled fraction 0.000).

On the heterogeneous fleet, Pulsar-WaW delivered 37-38% more goodput than WaW at 450 RPS across three seeds and 9-16% more at 350, with higher SLO attainment, cache reuse and lower tail latency in every seed pair. On the homogeneous fleet, Pulsar-WaW goodput was 0.1% lower than WaW's at 450 and 1.3% lower at 550, and WaW had the shorter tail. Pulsar-WaW's advantage comes from capacity-aware placement; WaW's equal shares are already right when every backend is the same size.

Fleet	RPS	Policy	Runs	Goodput	Sim goodput	SLO %	Reuse %	TTFT p99 s
Heterogeneous	350	WaW	3	275.5-281.7	272.2-285.9	94.9-95.3	83.3-84.4	9.0-10.1
Heterogeneous	350	Pulsar-WaW	3	306.9-319.3	323.0-328.0	97.3-98.6	90.8-91.8	5.4-7.7
Heterogeneous	450	WaW	3	252.2-266.1	245.8-264.9	85.9-88.3	73.6-75.2	15.4-16.3
Heterogeneous	450	Pulsar-WaW	3	346.6-366.6	370.8-384.0	95.6-96.2	87.6-89.7	8.2-9.8
Homogeneous	450	WaW	1	436.9	431.2-437.8	100.0	93.8	1.9
Homogeneous	450	Pulsar-WaW	1	436.3	420.6-427.5	100.0	92.8	4.3
Homogeneous	550	WaW	1	377.0	365.8-399.8	93.5	85.6	11.7
Homogeneous	550	Pulsar-WaW	1	372.0	302.9-401.4	91.3	85.6	12.6

Goodput counts successful requests whose TTFT met the 10 s SLO, per second of the 240 s measured window. Ranges span seeds; they are not confidence intervals.

What changed

• Add deploy/stacks/stargate-dev/README.md, which documents the stack as a generic AWS example, its required resources, and its placeholders.
• Add a Helmfile stack for us-west-2, us-east-1, eu-west-1, ap-northeast-1, and ap-southeast-2, with one Stargate hub and two MockDC clusters per region. Reciprocal discovery connects 20 MockDynamo/Pylon backends to all 15 Stargate replicas.
• Add stack-local auth and MockDC charts, a dedicated dev-auth image, worker and invocation auth RPC support, digest-pinned image inputs, and explicit-context deployment tooling. The request-router chart supports the required TLS, registration NLB, Secret mounts, and configuration-triggered rollouts.
• Add Grafana Alloy collection, Amazon Managed Prometheus integration, Grafana provisioning, and service/backend-balance dashboards. Each region has scoped observability IAM roles.
• Configure MockDynamo with its stats stream disabled and Pylon with fallback statistics, explicit engine concurrency, startup calibration capped at 25, and periodic canaries disabled. Pylon ingestion of engine concurrency from stats-stream heartbeats now comes from main.
• Run each MockDC backend as a multi-GPU deployment: numGpuWorkers selects the batched engine with that many workers, maxNumSeqs and kvCacheCapacityTokens set per-worker limits, and Pylon's engine concurrency is derived from them. Environments assign 2-20 GPU workers per backend. MockDynamo can disable its engine stats stream so Pylon uses fallback statistics. Optional per-backend stepFixedMs, stepDecodeMsPerSeq and stepPrefillMsPerToken set the engine's step costs. Backends of one MockDC cluster never share a node: pods use required anti-affinity and are recreated in place. The Pylon CPU limit is two cores.
• Add the Rust 2024 stargate-dev-bench controller for verification, deterministic workload generation, local Docker or detached Pod execution, reconciliation, and offline reporting. Campaigns freeze their inputs and deployment controls, retain failed attempts, and accept results only after report, checksum, Pod, configuration, and cache checks pass. Regional readiness checks run concurrently. Pod execution records its effective open-file limit and verifies descriptor headroom before traffic.
• Add canonical, reduced, and continuous session-ramp workload suites, disjoint prompt IDs for cold-capacity comparisons, and a checked-in queue-4 candidate policy. --expected-config checks that every participating region has the selected policy. Resume reconciles owned work before further traffic; lost launch acknowledgements never cause duplicate launches.
• Session ramps use one uninterrupted Spark process per algorithm with one fixed prompt per session. Cache reset occurs before each complete ramp; rate steps preserve caches and in-flight requests. Acceptance and resume verify and hash the per-request timeline against the planned schedule and summary. JSON/CSV metadata labels the initial rate explicitly and retains the complete schedule.
• Add explicit --algorithm pulsar-wait-and-widen selection for a standalone candidate arm. The default both selection remains WaW and PowerOf2; artifacts record the actual algorithm and do not fabricate a paired control.
• Add Rust build/test checks to the GitHub workflow and document operator commands, artifact semantics, and recovery.

The chart's default WaW policy allows one queued request and uses 100-5,000 ms queue-time bounds. A complete router.loadBalancerConfig override supports the measured queue-4 candidate with both bounds omitted. PowerOfN with sample count two and the TTFT comparator supplies the PowerOf2 request-header baseline.

Customer Release Notes

Pylon can publish engine concurrency from supported statistics-stream heartbeat events in model statistics. The deployment stack, auth fixture, and benchmark controller are development tooling.

Plan Summary

The stack targets existing Kubernetes clusters. The connected topology uses 15 clusters: five hubs and ten MockDCs. Each hub runs three Stargates, three backend routers, and one dev-auth replica. Each MockDC runs two MockDynamo/Pylon pairs, providing 20 backends and 500 configured engine slots in total.

Regional registration NLBs, compatible TLS trust, shared worker credentials, and restricted MockDC egress connect the regions. Each region has an AMP workspace and scoped observability roles. Images are pinned by digest through protected deployment inputs.

Usage

Initialize credentials, then apply the stargate, mockdc, and observability phases with protected regional values:

python3 deploy/stacks/stargate-dev/scripts/deploy.py init --region REGION --credentials CREDENTIALS_JSON
python3 deploy/stacks/stargate-dev/scripts/deploy.py apply --region REGION --phase PHASE --credentials CREDENTIALS_JSON --values VALUES_YAML

Build the controller and retain the executable used for each campaign:

rustup run stable cargo build --locked --release --manifest-path deploy/stacks/stargate-dev/benchmark/Cargo.toml

The following commands use that executable as stargate-dev-bench:

stargate-dev-bench verify --region us-west-2 --peer-region us-east-1 --peer-region eu-west-1 --peer-region ap-northeast-1 --peer-region ap-southeast-2 --phase regional
stargate-dev-bench --suite-file deploy/stacks/stargate-dev/loadtest/reduced.yaml plan --suite reduced
stargate-dev-bench --suite-file deploy/stacks/stargate-dev/loadtest/reduced.yaml run --suite reduced --region us-west-2 --peer-region us-east-1 --peer-region eu-west-1 --peer-region ap-northeast-1 --peer-region ap-southeast-2 --spark-pod SPARK_POD --spark-image IMAGE --expected-config deploy/stacks/stargate-dev/loadtest/queue-bounds-none-max-queued-4.json --output RESULTS

Use --algorithm pulsar-wait-and-widen with the session-ramp suite to run one Pulsar-WaW arm after registering its request-specific policy. The suite sends the matching routing header; default both excludes Pulsar-WaW.

The optional loadtest/session-ramp.yaml suite selects session-ramp: 160, 180, 200, 180, then 160 RPS, each for 180 seconds, with 768 serial session workers. Use the same plan/run commands with this suite file and name. It requires a Spark build with --rate-step support; each arm retains spark.requests.jsonl. Schedules stop admissions at the final boundary and drain admitted requests. Whole-run throughput includes this drain; admission and completion offsets support per-step analysis.

The reduced suite runs one session-affinity pair, one mixed hot/short pair, and one 96 RPS capacity pair. It also exposes each pair independently. --expected-config checks the deployed policy; deployment uses the complete JSON object in each region's protected router.loadBalancerConfig values.

Pod execution uses the existing spark container and requires its exact image reference plus Bash, coreutils, setsid, flock, grep, and tar. Local execution uses Docker and an owned WebSocket port-forward unless --endpoint is supplied. Repeat the same command and inputs with --resume; use reconcile --output RESULTS to stop owned unfinished work and render --output RESULTS to regenerate accepted JSON, CSV, and text summaries offline.

Operator guide.

Testing

Report checks: the 2026-10-07 report and bundle are generated from the included results.json by the included scripts, every number in the report text is computed from that file, and the PDF renders as eight reviewed pages. The 16 deployment and observability tests pass at 41c0bbbf4, including a new test that renders backend step costs as engine flags.

Controller validation recorded at b8c01ad99; deployment rendering at 9292add1c:

• 82 Rust controller tests passed: 67 unit, nine execution CLI, and six planning tests. Coverage includes immutable inputs, paired scope, configuration drift, Pod replacement, lost acknowledgements, mixed-launch interruption, process cleanup, verified transfers, concurrent regional readiness, generator descriptor headroom, and acceptance/reporting.
• 15 deployment and observability tests passed with isolated Helm state and an empty kubeconfig, including rendering and policy overrides for all five regions. The Rust topology test verifies 20 unique backends from every primary region; formatting, Clippy, and the release build pass.
• Stable Rust formatting, Clippy with warnings denied, the release build, documented offline CLI commands, and whitespace checks passed.
• Continuous-ramp planning and timeline acceptance tests pass, including serial session validation, final-drain deadlines, downloaded timeline checksums, and resume rejection after evidence changes. Spark rate scheduling has 204 passing tests and a passing local streaming CLI fixture.

Five-region deployment acceptance

Verified on 2026-09-23 using the existing pinned application images and the queue-4 policy:

• All five regions pass regional readiness and 20-backend membership checks. All 20 Pylons connect to all 15 Stargates, giving 300 reverse connections.
• 320 small streaming requests completed successfully, with zero failures: 32 PowerOf2 and 32 WaW requests from each region. Request counters matched completions, and each ingress reached backends in all five regions across its two checks.
• All 15 Alloy collectors delivered metrics to their regional AMP workspaces. Deployment audits verified ready replicas, pinned images, preserved existing resources, and matching routing policies.
• Engine statistics streaming is disabled on all 20 backends. Engine concurrency and startup calibration caps are 25, with periodic canaries disabled.

These checks validate deployment and connectivity. They do not measure five-region routing performance or qualify a production configuration. Production recommendation remains pending real-engine QA. Audit artifacts are retained under remaining-regions-20260923T175611Z.

Benchmark results (2026-10-06 to 2026-10-07)

Method

• Half-scale engine: step cost 8.0 ms + 0.17 ms per decoding sequence + 0.1 ms per prefill token, 500,000 KV tokens and 25 sequences per GPU worker; Pylon concurrency 25 x GPU workers with a 2-CPU limit; one MockDC backend per node.
• Heterogeneous fleet: 350 and 450 RPS, seeds 1-3, policy order alternated. Homogeneous fleet: 450 and 550 RPS, seed 1.
• Each run restarts every MockDC backend and waits until all 15 Stargate replicas report 20 backends. CFS throttling counters and each Pylon's input TPS are captured at the start and end of the measured window. Record files are checked line by line against the driver pods.
• Workload, client and Pulsar-WaW settings are unchanged from the earlier runs: growing sessions, 10 s TTFT SLO, 30 s timeout, maximum-TPS weighting, 300 ms affinity wait, 300 ms band widening, max_queued 4.

Findings

• Heterogeneous fleet: under WaW the sessions pinned to the 2-4 GPU backends stall at both rates, and fleet-wide reuse falls to 73.6-75.2% at 450 RPS. Pulsar-WaW keeps those backends serving and holds 87.6-89.7% reuse.
• Simulator agreement: the simulator ranks the policies the same way as the fleet in every comparison. It predicts WaW on the heterogeneous fleet within its seed range and overpredicts Pulsar-WaW goodput there by 1-11%; on the homogeneous fleet it underpredicts Pulsar-WaW.
• Pulsar weights: per GPU, the measured maximum input TPS ranged from 50k to 153k tokens/s across heterogeneous backends, against an engine limit of about 10k uncached prefill tokens/s per GPU. The signal mostly reflects cached input and favors small backends per GPU, but it is still far closer to capacity than equal shares.
• Homogeneous tail: Pulsar-WaW spread requests as evenly as WaW on equal backends, so its longer tail there does not come from uneven placement. Its affinity wait and band widening are the next candidates; this is not yet isolated.
• Failures are almost all client timeouts. Each run also has at most a few dozen HTTP 502 responses returned before a backend was selected.

Earlier full-scale runs (2026-10-06)

Policy	RPS	Goodput fleet / sim	SLO met	Reuse	TTFT p99	Failures
WaW	250	244.8 / 249.1	100.0%	92.5%	2.5 s	0
Pulsar-WaW	250	249.6 / 249.3	100.0%	94.0%	0.6 s	0
WaW	550	498.9 / 531.7	99.6%	85.5%	6.4 s	148
Pulsar-WaW	550	520.2 / 549.8	100.0%	92.6%	2.5 s	0
WaW	900	319.5 / 567.3	60.1%	55.8%	19.5 s	26,151
Pulsar-WaW	900	380.2 / 872.9	63.7%	45.8%	12.6 s	48,815
PowerOf2	250	200.2	98.3%	22.1%	10.9 s	185

These used the full-scale engine, one seed, a 1-CPU Pylon limit and no throttling counters. At 900 RPS both policies collapsed on the fleet while the simulator predicted Pulsar-WaW would hold; Pylon ran close to its CPU limit, so infrastructure could not be ruled out. Simulator references come from the current simulator, seed 1.

Limitations: the mock engine uses estimated step costs and is not calibrated against a real engine; cache reuse assumes a cached session covers its whole prompt. The homogeneous control has one seed per rate. Production recommendation remains pending real-engine QA.

Suggested Pulsar-WaW configuration for real-engine QA

Use Pulsar-WaW where backend sizes differ; on equal backends WaW performed as well or slightly better. This is the only Pulsar-WaW configuration measured on the fleet. Treat it as a starting point for model-specific real-engine evaluation, not a qualified production setting. Replace MODEL_NAME with the routed model ID; unlisted models use PowerOfN.

{
  "default": "power-of-n",
  "models": {
    "MODEL_NAME": {
      "algorithm": "pulsar-wait-and-widen",
      "max_queue_time_floor_ms": 4000,
      "max_queue_time_ceil_ms": 4000,
      "max_queued": 4,
      "n": 2,
      "next_bucket_unlock_factor": 0.25,
      "require_cache_affinity_key": true,
      "require_input_tokens": true,
      "ttft_bucket_size_ms": 20,
      "cache_affinity_wait_ms": 300,
      "band_widen_interval_ms": 300,
      "fallback_max_queued": 0,
      "consider_kv_free_tokens": false
    }
  }
}

Set each Pylon's --max-engine-concurrency to the engine's sequence limit times its GPU workers, and keep maximum input-TPS weighting. Use stable affinity keys and input-token estimates, consistent model and hash settings across routers, and workload-specific SLOs and deadlines.

Notes

Repository defaults contain non-deployable placeholders. Credentials, certificates, registry coordinates, DNS aliases, and live image pins belong in protected deployment inputs. The static-token auth fixture is development-only. Routing-policy behavior is provided by the related Stargate algorithm work in #1660.

Issues

Relates to #1420

References

The operator guide linked above describes the CLI and artifact contract. Benchmark provenance is recorded with the results and retained audit artifacts.

Related Pull Requests

• Depends on Batched mock engine #2286: the MockDC chart passes its batched-engine flags to MockDynamo. Merge this PR after feat(mock-dynamo): model batched GPU workers with a shared engine crate #2286.
• Pulsar maximum input TPS #1002
• Routing simulator #2223
• Pulsar-WaW affinity wait and gradual widening #2288
• Fleet driver #2321
• Change-driven Pylon statistics #2241
• NVIDIA/nvcf #1660
• nvidia-lpu/spark #139
• nvidia-lpu/spark #140
• nvidia-lpu/spark #143

Dependencies

The Rust controller pins anyhow, base64, clap, csv, rustix, serde, serde_json, serde_yaml_ng, sha2, tempfile, time, tokio, and uuid. Exact versions and checksums are in Cargo.lock; the root NOTICE links the benchmark dependency attribution catalog.

License metadata was checked, selecting MIT or Apache-2.0 where available. The transitive unicode-ident package also requires Unicode-3.0, which is used elsewhere in the Rust workspace but is absent from the root license allowlist. This license-policy discrepancy is disclosed in the dependency attribution.

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  • Added a benchmark tool for planning and running development workloads, with resumable campaigns and validated JSON, CSV, and text reports.
  • Added deployment support for a five-region Stargate development environment, including authentication, mock backends, observability, and Grafana dashboards.
  • Added support for digest-pinned images, configurable backend services, existing authentication secrets, and upstream TLS verification.
  • Added development authentication and mock-backend options, including configurable request capacity and stats reporting.
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  • Improved Helm configuration validation and ensured readiness settings are applied only when explicitly provided.
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This pull request adds a five-region Stargate development stack, supporting authentication and observability resources, router chart options, and a Rust benchmark CLI. The benchmark plans workloads, runs campaigns through Docker or Spark Pods, verifies campaign evidence, and renders reports.

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Stargate development stack

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Router chart configuration deploy/helm/llm-request-router/...	Adds image digest support, configurable backend-router Services, an optional upstream CA mount, existing-Secret authentication, and related values and template behavior.
Development authentication and backend services src/libraries/rust/stargate/..., deploy/stacks/stargate-dev/charts/stargate-dev-auth/*, deploy/stacks/stargate-dev/charts/stargate-dev-mockdc/*	Adds the development authentication RPC service and chart, a MockDC chart with two backend deployments, and MockDynamo stats-stream controls and metadata.
Regional deployment and observability deploy/stacks/stargate-dev/environments/*, deploy/stacks/stargate-dev/helmfile.yaml.gotmpl, deploy/stacks/stargate-dev/scripts/*, deploy/stacks/stargate-dev/dashboards/*, deploy/stacks/stargate-dev/tests/*	Adds five regional configurations, Helmfile releases, deployment and observability provisioning, dashboards, and rendered-stack tests.
Benchmark suite and workload planning deploy/stacks/stargate-dev/benchmark/*, deploy/stacks/stargate-dev/loadtest/*, .github/workflows/build-test.yml	Adds the Rust workspace, workload and suite validation, plan generation, CLI planning commands, planning tests, and a CI job for formatting, tests, and Clippy.
Benchmark campaign and execution deploy/stacks/stargate-dev/benchmark/src/{campaign,cluster,pod,process}.rs, deploy/stacks/stargate-dev/benchmark/tests/execution.rs	Adds topology checks, Docker and Spark Pod execution, campaign resume and reconciliation, process cleanup, and execution tests.
Benchmark report validation and rendering deploy/stacks/stargate-dev/benchmark/src/{report,schedule}.rs, deploy/stacks/stargate-dev/PLAN.md	Adds report and scheduled-timeline validation, matched-pair summaries, and JSON, CSV, and text rendering. The plan documents campaign acceptance, resume, reconciliation, and offline rendering.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant CLI as stargate-dev-bench CLI
  participant Campaign as Campaign controller
  participant Topology as Kubernetes topology
  participant Runner as Spark Pod runner
  participant Spark as Spark process
  participant Reports as Report validation
  CLI->>Campaign: Start campaign with plan and options
  Campaign->>Topology: Load topology and verify deployment controls
  Campaign->>Runner: Prepare workloads and launch stream
  Runner->>Spark: Run Spark workload
  Spark-->>Runner: Return report and request timeline
  Runner-->>Campaign: Download verified artifacts
  Campaign->>Reports: Validate reports and schedule evidence
  Reports-->>Campaign: Return verified metrics
  Campaign-->>CLI: Render accepted campaign results

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Sync the workload and fingerprint files before you rename them, as atomic_json does.

Workload::write renames both temporary files without calling sync_all on them. It also does not sync the parent directory after the rename. artifact::atomic_json does all three steps for plan.json and campaign.json. Suppose the host loses power after plan.json is durable. The workload bytes or the renamed directory entries can then be lost. On resume, verify_workloads reports "workload bytes changed", and the operator must start a new output directory. The sidecar is also hand-written JSON, although the crate contract routes shared atomic JSON through artifact.rs.

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-        let workload_file = writer.output.into_inner()?;
-        let mut fingerprint_file = NamedTempFile::new_in(parent)?;
-        serde_json::to_writer_pretty(&mut fingerprint_file, &fingerprint)?;
-        fingerprint_file.write_all(b"\n")?;
-        fingerprint_file.flush()?;
-        workload_file
-            .persist(path)
-            .with_context(|| format!("replace workload {}", path.display()))?;
-        fingerprint_file
-            .persist(&sidecar_path)
-            .with_context(|| format!("replace workload fingerprint {}", sidecar_path.display()))?;
+        let workload_file = writer.output.into_inner()?;
+        workload_file.as_file().sync_all()?;
+        workload_file
+            .persist(path)
+            .with_context(|| format!("replace workload {}", path.display()))?;
+        fs::File::open(parent)?.sync_all()?;
+        crate::artifact::atomic_json(&sidecar_path, &fingerprint)
+            .with_context(|| format!("replace workload fingerprint {}", sidecar_path.display()))?;

This follows the retrieved learning from the repository AGENTS.md: "Use artifact.rs for shared atomic JSON, hashing, and managed-path operations." It also follows the learning on POSIX atomic persistence: fsync the temporary file, rename it, then fsync the parent directory.

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@deploy/stacks/stargate-dev/charts/stargate-dev-mockdc/templates/deployment.yaml:
- Around line 82-86: In the MockDC deployment template, remove the unsupported
batched-engine arguments and the `numGpuWorkers`-based Pylon concurrency
override. Keep the supported `--profile={{ $mock.profile }}` path and the
default `$.Values.pylon.maxEngineConcurrency` for all backends.

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Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @deploy/stacks/stargate-dev/benchmark/src/workload.rs:
- Around line 188-198: Update Workload::write to sync the workload temporary
file before persisting it and sync the parent directory after the rename; write
the fingerprint through crate::artifact::atomic_json instead of hand-serializing
and persisting a second temporary file. Preserve the existing error context for
both destination paths.

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Remove the unsupported batched-engine branch, or implement it in the mock-dynamo image.

When numGpuWorkers is set, the chart passes --engine-model=batched, --num-gpu-workers, and --max-num-seqs to mock-dynamo. The image is built from src/libraries/rust/stargate/Dockerfile, but Args in src/libraries/rust/stargate/crates/mock-dynamo/src/main.rs declares none of these options. Clap therefore rejects the arguments before the server starts. All five region files set numGpuWorkers on both backends, so every MockDC backend can fail at startup. The Pylon concurrency override also advertises capacity for an engine that this image does not implement.

If the batched engine is not added to mock-dynamo, remove this branch and retain the supported profile path and default Pylon concurrency:

Suggested fix

-{{- /* A backend with numGpuWorkers runs the batched engine as a multi-GPU
-deployment, and its Pylon advertises the deployment's concurrency. */}}
-{{- $maxNumSeqs := $mock.maxNumSeqs | default 25 }}
 {{- $engineConcurrency := $.Values.pylon.maxEngineConcurrency }}
-{{- if $mock.numGpuWorkers }}
-{{- $engineConcurrency = mul $mock.numGpuWorkers $maxNumSeqs }}
-{{- end }}
...
-            {{- if $mock.numGpuWorkers }}
-            - --engine-model=batched
-            - --num-gpu-workers={{ $mock.numGpuWorkers }}
-            - --max-num-seqs={{ $maxNumSeqs }}
-            - --kv-cache-capacity-tokens={{ $mock.kvCacheCapacityTokens | default 400000 | int64 }}
-            {{- else }}
             - --profile={{ $mock.profile }}
-            {{- end }}

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Review comment at
@deploy/stacks/stargate-dev/charts/stargate-dev-mockdc/templates/deployment.yaml
around lines 82 - 86:
In the MockDC deployment template, remove the unsupported batched-engine
arguments and the `numGpuWorkers`-based Pylon concurrency override. Keep the
supported `--profile={{ $mock.profile }}` path and the default
`$.Values.pylon.maxEngineConcurrency` for all backends.

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[barrygreengus]

Valid. These flags (--engine-model, --num-gpu-workers, --max-num-seqs, and the --step-* costs) come from the batched MockDynamo engine in #2286, which is not in main yet. This PR now depends on #2286 and will merge after it, so the chart and the image agree; the dependency is recorded in the PR description. Leaving this open until #2286 lands.

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@barrygreengus Thanks for clarifying the dependency on #2286. The batched-engine branch can remain with that merge order. This finding stays open until #2286 lands and the MockDynamo image supports the chart’s arguments.

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Learnt from: barrygreengus
Repo: NVIDIA/nvcf PR: 1519
File: deploy/stacks/stargate-dev/charts/stargate-dev-mockdc/templates/deployment.yaml:84-88
Timestamp: 2026-10-07T22:06:58.719Z
Learning: In NVIDIA/nvcf, the MockDC Helm template at deploy/stacks/stargate-dev/charts/stargate-dev-mockdc/templates/deployment.yaml uses --engine-model, --num-gpu-workers, --max-num-seqs, and --step-* cost arguments from the batched MockDynamo engine introduced in #2286. Check compatibility against that engine implementation, rather than treating these arguments as profile-engine options.

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One P1 startup regression in the documented Vault-disabled chart configuration. Offline Helm rendering confirms the workload references a ConfigMap that this change no longer creates. Deployment/auth/controller source reviewed; six observability tests and the credential-init test passed. Linux-only controller tests were not run on this macOS host. No live deployment validation.

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[P1] Keep Vault volumes conditional with ConfigMap creation

Setting llmRequestRouter.vault.noVaultAnnotations=true without auth.existingSecret.name now suppresses this ConfigMap while deployment.yaml still mounts it. This configuration is documented in the chart README, and scripts/test-readiness-warmup-k8s.py uses it with workerAuthEndpoint empty. Offline helm template with those settings renders a Deployment volume referencing llm-request-router-vault-agent-tpl but no matching ConfigMap, so fresh installs and upgrades leave router Pods unable to start with a missing-volume ConfigMap. Apply the same Vault-enabled condition to the corresponding volume and volumeMount, or retain ConfigMap creation until those guards match.