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Summary

  • Add a shared synchronous Kubernetes client with client-go-compatible automatic read retries.
  • Retry Planner writes after 409 conflicts by re-reading and submitting the current resourceVersion; honor Retry-After and use client-go backoff for transient errors.
  • Document the Python Kubernetes policy and regenerate the Python API reference.

The Power Agent keeps its single bounded LIST with transport retries disabled because retries can violate its shutdown deadline. Async support is deferred to the upstream client instead of reimplementing it in Dynamo.

This PR remains blocked on a kubernetes-client/python release containing #2671. The temporary source pin is intentionally not made publishable through a Hatch workaround.

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  • Common Kubernetes helper tests: 11 passed
  • Power Agent fail-safe tests: 16 passed
  • Deployment utility test: 1 passed
  • Generated Python API reference check
  • py_compile and git diff --check

The Planner test module cannot be collected locally without the native dynamo._core binding; focused conflict and resource-version tests are included for CI.

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Walkthrough

The change adds shared Kubernetes retry helpers, enables client-go-compatible retries, and applies retry handling to planner, power-agent, and deployment utility operations. Planner writes now refresh resource versions after conflicts. Dependencies are pinned to a compatible Kubernetes SDK revision.

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Kubernetes retry standardization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared retry foundation
components/src/dynamo/common/kubernetes.py, components/src/dynamo/common/kubernetes_asyncio.py, components/src/dynamo/common/tests/*
Adds synchronous and asynchronous retry helpers for transient errors, Retry-After, backoff, conflicts, and read-modify-write closures.
Planner Kubernetes integration
components/src/dynamo/planner/connectors/clients/kubernetes_api.py, components/src/dynamo/planner/connectors/kubernetes.py, components/src/dynamo/planner/tests/unit/test_kube.py
Routes planner reads and writes through shared helpers. Writes reread resources and include current metadata.resourceVersion values in patches.
Power agent retry integration
deploy/power-agent/power_agent.py, deploy/power-agent/tests/test_reconcile_failsafe.py
Enables client-go retries and applies retry handling to pod listing while preserving timeout and fail-safe behavior.
Deployment utility retry integration
deploy/utils/dynamo_deployment.py
Wraps deployment creation, deletion, pod discovery, readiness polling, and log retrieval with retry helpers.
SDK revision and retry guidance
AGENTS.md, pyproject.toml, container/deps/*, deploy/power-agent/Dockerfile, tests/report_pytest_markers.py
Documents Kubernetes retry requirements and pins Kubernetes dependencies to a compatible Git revision.
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to b6fdf

This change adds Kubernetes retry and conflict-handling behavior across Planner, Power Agent, and deployment utilities. The current Planner fallback test expects a patch operation that does not occur, so the test suite can fail and the PR is not merge-ready until that assertion is corrected; the remaining issues are bounded follow-ups.

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components/src/dynamo/planner/connectors/clients/kubernetes_api.py (1)

221-223: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Use lazy logger formatting.

Pass the format string and values as separate arguments. As per coding guidelines, “Use lazy formatting for log messages”; as per path instructions, “avoid eager f-strings in logger calls.”

Proposed fix
 logger.info(
-    f"Updated DGD {graph_deployment_name} component {service_name} to {replicas} replicas"
+    "Updated DGD %s component %s to %s replicas",
+    graph_deployment_name,
+    service_name,
+    replicas,
 )
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In `@components/src/dynamo/planner/connectors/clients/kubernetes_api.py` around
lines 221 - 223, Update the logger.info call for the “Updated DGD” message to
use lazy formatting: pass the format string and graph_deployment_name,
service_name, and replicas as separate arguments instead of constructing an
f-string.

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Inline comments:
In `@components/src/dynamo/common/tests/test_kubernetes_asyncio.py`:
- Around line 24-25: Add pytest timeout markers to the three retry-related
tests, including test_retry_honors_retry_after, using appropriate timeout values
to bound hangs while preserving their existing retry assertions and behavior.

In `@components/src/dynamo/planner/tests/unit/test_kube.py`:
- Around line 168-170: Update the test’s assertion for the
get_namespaced_custom_object_scale 404 scenario to use assert_not_called() on
patch_namespaced_custom_object_scale(), preserving the expected fallback
behavior.

In `@deploy/power-agent/power_agent.py`:
- Around line 58-69: Update the Kubernetes import handling around k8s_client and
related retry symbols to fail fast for broken SDK imports: either remove the
fallback entirely or catch ModuleNotFoundError only when error.name is exactly
“kubernetes”; re-raise missing submodules, transitive dependency failures,
incompatible exports, and other import errors instead of assigning fallback
values.

In `@deploy/power-agent/tests/test_reconcile_failsafe.py`:
- Around line 126-145: The test_429_without_retry_after_uses_backoff test
currently performs a real delay through k8s_on_error, making it slow and
nondeterministic. Inject a zero-delay backoff and no-op sleep, or substitute a
deterministic fake for the helper used by _list_pods_on_node, while preserving
the assertion that the request retries exactly once; leave retry algorithm
coverage to the shared Kubernetes helper tests.

Apply the same fix in `@deploy/power-agent/tests/test_reconcile_failsafe.py`
around lines 126 - 145.

In `@deploy/utils/dynamo_deployment.py`:
- Around line 338-341: Update the retry lambdas in the loops around
retry_kubernetes_read to bind each iteration’s label_selector or pod value as a
default argument, including the occurrences near list_namespaced_pod and the
other referenced retry calls. Preserve the existing deferred invocation behavior
while preventing late binding and Ruff B023 violations.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@components/src/dynamo/planner/connectors/clients/kubernetes_api.py`:
- Around line 221-223: Update the logger.info call for the “Updated DGD” message
to use lazy formatting: pass the format string and graph_deployment_name,
service_name, and replicas as separate arguments instead of constructing an
f-string.
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  • AGENTS.md
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  • components/src/dynamo/common/tests/test_kubernetes.py
  • components/src/dynamo/common/tests/test_kubernetes_asyncio.py
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@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_retry_honors_retry_after() -> None:

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Add timeout markers to the three retry tests. Use @pytest.mark.timeout(...) to bound hangs if retry behavior regresses. The marker is registered and supported by the test dependencies.

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In `@components/src/dynamo/common/tests/test_kubernetes_asyncio.py` around lines
24 - 25, Add pytest timeout markers to the three retry-related tests, including
test_retry_honors_retry_after, using appropriate timeout values to bound hangs
while preserving their existing retry assertions and behavior.

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Comment on lines +168 to 170
mock_custom_api.get_namespaced_custom_object_scale.side_effect = (
client.ApiException(status=404)
)

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Fix the fallback assertion.

When get_namespaced_custom_object_scale() raises ApiException(status=404), the code does not call patch_namespaced_custom_object_scale(). The assert_called_once() on Line 188 fails. Change it to assert_not_called().

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-    mock_custom_api.patch_namespaced_custom_object_scale.assert_called_once()
+    mock_custom_api.patch_namespaced_custom_object_scale.assert_not_called()
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In `@components/src/dynamo/planner/tests/unit/test_kube.py` around lines 168 -
170, Update the test’s assertion for the get_namespaced_custom_object_scale 404
scenario to use assert_not_called() on patch_namespaced_custom_object_scale(),
preserving the expected fallback behavior.

Comment thread deploy/power-agent/power_agent.py Outdated
Comment on lines +58 to +69
from kubernetes.utils.retry import DEFAULT_BACKOFF as K8S_DEFAULT_BACKOFF
from kubernetes.utils.retry import (
is_retry_after_response as k8s_is_retry_after_response,
)
from kubernetes.utils.retry import on_error as k8s_on_error
except ImportError:
k8s_client = None # type: ignore
k8s_config = None # type: ignore
ConfigException = Exception # type: ignore
K8S_DEFAULT_BACKOFF = None # type: ignore
k8s_is_retry_after_response = None # type: ignore
k8s_on_error = None # type: ignore

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Fail fast on broken Kubernetes imports.

The Kubernetes SDK is a required image dependency. Import it directly, or catch ModuleNotFoundError only when error.name == "kubernetes" and re-raise all other failures. Do not report missing submodules, transitive dependencies, or incompatible exports as “install kubernetes.”

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In `@deploy/power-agent/power_agent.py` around lines 58 - 69, Update the
Kubernetes import handling around k8s_client and related retry symbols to fail
fast for broken SDK imports: either remove the fallback entirely or catch
ModuleNotFoundError only when error.name is exactly “kubernetes”; re-raise
missing submodules, transitive dependency failures, incompatible exports, and
other import errors instead of assigning fallback values.

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Comment on lines +126 to +145
def test_429_without_retry_after_uses_backoff(self):
core_v1 = MagicMock()
core_v1.list_pod_for_all_namespaces.side_effect = [
power_agent.k8s_client.ApiException(status=429),
MagicMock(items=[]),
]
agent = _make_agent(core_v1)

self.assertEqual(agent._list_pods_on_node(), [])
self.assertEqual(core_v1.list_pod_for_all_namespaces.call_count, 2)

def test_retry_after_error_is_not_retried_by_outer_backoff(self):
error = power_agent.k8s_client.ApiException(status=429)
error.headers = {"Retry-After": "1"}
core_v1 = MagicMock()
core_v1.list_pod_for_all_namespaces.side_effect = error
agent = _make_agent(core_v1)

self.assertIsNone(agent._list_pods_on_node())
core_v1.list_pod_for_all_namespaces.assert_called_once()

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Make the retry test deterministic and mark it appropriately.

Add the module-level pre_merge, unit, and gpu_0 markers plus a timeout marker for the retry tests. Mock the retry helper’s sleep/backoff, or inject a zero-delay backoff with a no-op sleep, so test_429_without_retry_after_uses_backoff does not perform a real K8S_DEFAULT_BACKOFF delay.

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  • deploy/power-agent/tests/test_reconcile_failsafe.py#L126-L145 (this comment)
  • deploy/power-agent/tests/test_reconcile_failsafe.py#L126-L145
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In `@deploy/power-agent/tests/test_reconcile_failsafe.py` around lines 126 - 145,
The test_429_without_retry_after_uses_backoff test currently performs a real
delay through k8s_on_error, making it slow and nondeterministic. Inject a
zero-delay backoff and no-op sleep, or substitute a deterministic fake for the
helper used by _list_pods_on_node, while preserving the assertion that the
request retries exactly once; leave retry algorithm coverage to the shared
Kubernetes helper tests.

Apply the same fix in `@deploy/power-agent/tests/test_reconcile_failsafe.py`
around lines 126 - 145.

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Comment on lines +338 to +341
pods = await retry_kubernetes_read(
lambda: self.core_api.list_namespaced_pod(
namespace=self.namespace, label_selector=label_selector
)

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Bind each loop variable in the retry lambda.

Lines 338-341 and 598-601 capture label_selector. Lines 623-626 capture pod. Bind these values as default arguments to satisfy Ruff B023 and prevent future deferred invocation from using a later loop value.

As per coding guidelines, “Avoid late-binding closures in loops; bind loop variables as default arguments in lambdas and inner functions to capture their current value.”

Proposed fix
-                lambda: self.core_api.list_namespaced_pod(
+                lambda label_selector=label_selector: self.core_api.list_namespaced_pod(
                     namespace=self.namespace, label_selector=label_selector
                 )
...
-                    lambda: self.core_api.list_namespaced_pod(
+                    lambda label_selector=label_selector: self.core_api.list_namespaced_pod(
                         namespace=self.namespace, label_selector=label_selector
                     )
...
-                        lambda: self.core_api.read_namespaced_pod_log(
+                        lambda pod=pod: self.core_api.read_namespaced_pod_log(
                             name=pod.metadata.name, namespace=self.namespace
                         )

Also applies to: 598-601, 623-626

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[warning] 340-340: Function definition does not bind loop variable label_selector

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In `@deploy/utils/dynamo_deployment.py` around lines 338 - 341, Update the retry
lambdas in the loops around retry_kubernetes_read to bind each iteration’s
label_selector or pod value as a default argument, including the occurrences
near list_namespaced_pod and the other referenced retry calls. Preserve the
existing deferred invocation behavior while preventing late binding and Ruff
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Comment on lines 845 to 848
configuration = k8s_client.Configuration.get_default_copy()
# urllib3 Retry(0) → no retries; the reconcile loop is the retry policy.
configuration.retries = 0
configuration.client_go_retries = True
return k8s_client.CoreV1Api(k8s_client.ApiClient(configuration))

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🔴 GPU power caps can be left applied on node shutdown because pod listing is no longer time-bounded

The per-attempt no-retry setting for the power agent's Kubernetes connection was dropped when read retries were switched on (configuration.client_go_retries = True at deploy/power-agent/power_agent.py:846-847), so a single pod listing can now take many times longer than its intended limit and delay the shutdown step that returns GPUs to their default power limit.
Impact: When a node's power agent is stopped while the cluster API is slow or throttling, it can be force-killed before restoring GPU power limits, leaving GPUs capped for whatever workload runs next.

Removed `retries = 0` plus new retry layers multiply the LIST wall-clock beyond the termination grace period

The previous implementation explicitly set configuration.retries = 0 so urllib3 performed no transport retries; the module-level design note still in the file (deploy/power-agent/power_agent.py:106-115) states "That is exactly why transport retries are disabled on this agent's API client (see _build_k8s_core_v1) — the 15s reconcile loop is the only retry policy" and that "disabling transport retries removes the amplification". The new _build_k8s_core_v1 no longer sets retries, and kubernetes.client.Configuration defaults it to None, which means the REST client leaves urllib3 at its default Retry(3) — i.e. up to 4 attempts, each bounded only by _request_timeout=K8S_LIST_CLIENT_TIMEOUT_S (25s), for a worst case near 100s against the documented 60s pod grace period.

On top of that, client_go_retries makes the generated client sleep for a server-supplied Retry-After inside one call, and _list_pods_on_node wraps the call in another backoff loop (k8s_on_error(...) at deploy/power-agent/power_agent.py:1393-1397) that does not consult _shutdown. run()'s finally (which calls _shutdown_cleanup) cannot execute until this returns, which is precisely the failure mode the timeouts were introduced to prevent.

The test that guarded the old behavior (test_k8s_client_disables_transport_retries) was replaced rather than adapted, so nothing pins retries any more.

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configuration = k8s_client.Configuration.get_default_copy()
# urllib3 Retry(0) → no retries; the reconcile loop is the retry policy.
configuration.retries = 0
configuration.client_go_retries = True
return k8s_client.CoreV1Api(k8s_client.ApiClient(configuration))
configuration = k8s_client.Configuration.get_default_copy()
configuration.client_go_retries = True
# urllib3 Retry(0) → no transport retries; a stuck LIST must not be
# multiplied past the pod termination grace period (see the LIST timeout
# notes above). The reconcile loop plus the bounded backoff helper are the
# only retry policies.
configuration.retries = 0
return k8s_client.CoreV1Api(k8s_client.ApiClient(configuration))
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Comment thread pyproject.toml
Comment on lines +19 to +20
# First upstream revision with client-go-compatible read/write retry helpers.
"kubernetes @ https://github.com/kubernetes-client/python/archive/5d5e3ed698940a5e403f2f95ccf4a1f42d1a5c6c.tar.gz",

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🟡 Published Python package now points at a GitHub archive, which breaks normal installs

The Kubernetes requirement was replaced with a direct GitHub archive URL (kubernetes @ https://...tar.gz at pyproject.toml:20) instead of a released version, so the built package records an unpublishable direct reference and every install must reach GitHub.
Impact: Package publishing can be rejected and users installing the project in restricted or offline environments will fail.

Direct URL requirement in project metadata

PyPI rejects distributions whose Requires-Dist metadata contains a direct URL reference, and even where the wheel is only pushed to an internal registry, resolvers must fetch github.com at install time and cannot apply hash pinning or version-range resolution. The same pin was applied in container/deps/requirements.planner.txt:16, container/deps/requirements.dev.txt:7 and deploy/power-agent/Dockerfile:107, where a direct URL is acceptable, but the library metadata in pyproject.toml is propagated to every consumer of the wheel. recipes/nemotron-3-nano-omni/Dockerfile:47 still installs kubernetes<33.0.0,>=32.0.1, so those images will not have the new retry helpers and would break if they imported dynamo.common.kubernetes.

Consider vendoring the small retry helpers (or gating their import) until an upstream release is available, so the published metadata can keep a normal version specifier.

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Comment thread deploy/utils/dynamo_deployment.py Outdated
Comment on lines +35 to +38
from dynamo.common.kubernetes_asyncio import (
retry_kubernetes_read,
retry_kubernetes_request,
)

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🔍 deploy/utils gains an implicit dependency on the ai-dynamo package and the sync Kubernetes client

dynamo_deployment.py now imports dynamo.common.kubernetes_asyncio, which in turn imports dynamo.common.kubernetes and therefore the synchronous kubernetes package plus aiohttp. deploy/utils/requirements.txt lists only kubernetes-asyncio, aiofiles, httpx, etc., so anyone provisioning these utilities from that manifest (or any environment that has kubernetes_asyncio but not kubernetes, e.g. one built purely from container/deps/requirements.test.txt) will now fail at import time. Worth confirming which images actually run this module and updating the manifest accordingly.

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Comment on lines +54 to +56
return retry_on_conflict(
lambda: on_retry_after_error(DEFAULT_BACKOFF, is_transient_api_error, fn)
)

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🔍 Nested conflict + transient retries multiply the worst-case attempt count for planner writes

retry_kubernetes_write composes retry_on_conflict (client-go DefaultRetry, ~5 steps) around on_retry_after_error (client-go DefaultBackoff, ~4 steps), so a single update_service_replicas call can issue up to ~20 read+patch round trips, and each inner attempt may additionally sleep for a server-supplied Retry-After with no ceiling. The planner scaling path is called on a periodic control loop; if the apiserver is throttling, one scaling decision can block that loop for a long time. Worth confirming the planner's tick has its own deadline, or capping the honored Retry-After.

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Comment on lines +160 to +182
def update_dgdsa_scale() -> None:
scale = self.custom_api.get_namespaced_custom_object_scale(
group=NVIDIA_API_GROUP,
version=DYNAMO_API_VERSION,
namespace=self.current_namespace,
plural=DGDSA_PLURAL,
name=adapter_name,
)
resource_version = self._resource_version(scale, adapter_name)
self.custom_api.patch_namespaced_custom_object_scale(
group=NVIDIA_API_GROUP,
version=DYNAMO_API_VERSION,
namespace=self.current_namespace,
plural=DGDSA_PLURAL,
name=adapter_name,
body={"spec": {"replicas": replicas}},
body={
"metadata": {"resourceVersion": resource_version},
"spec": {"replicas": replicas},
},
)

try:
retry_kubernetes_write(update_dgdsa_scale)

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🔍 DGDSA fallback trigger moved from the patch call to the new scale read

Previously the "DGDSA does not exist" decision came from a 404 on patch_namespaced_custom_object_scale; now the read-modify-write closure GETs the scale first, so the 404 that drives the DGD fallback normally originates from get_namespaced_custom_object_scale. This is behaviourally equivalent for a missing adapter, but note the fallback also now fires when the GET 404s for another reason (e.g. the scale subresource is unavailable on that CRD version), and every scaling operation costs one extra apiserver round trip. Optimistic concurrency for the scale merge patch relies on the CR scale subresource echoing metadata.resourceVersion and honoring it on update — worth a live check against the DGDSA CRD, since _resource_version() raises KeyError if it is ever absent, which would break scaling entirely rather than degrade it.

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Comment thread deploy/power-agent/power_agent.py Outdated
result = k8s_on_error(
K8S_DEFAULT_BACKOFF,
_is_transient_k8s_error_without_retry_after,
list_pods,

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_list_pods_on_node now retries failed pod LISTs up to DEFAULT_BACKOFF attempts, multiplying apiserver load and extending the fail-safe/SIGTERM path that previously depended on one bounded LIST per reconcile. Fix: do not wrap the Power Agent LIST in the outer k8s_on_error retry and rely only on generated-client Retry-After handling.

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In deploy/power-agent/power_agent.py, in PowerAgent._list_pods_on_node, replace the result = k8s_on_error(K8S_DEFAULT_BACKOFF, _is_transient_k8s_error_without_retry_after, list_pods) call with result = list_pods() so the Power Agent performs only one bounded LIST attempt per reconcile.

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# kubernetes_asyncio cannot import kubernetes.aio.utils.retry because that tree

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this surprises. Is this a bug of the wheel? Looks like. We should fix that upstream in a follow-up PR then. Reimplementation misses the point and is a nogo.


def _get_graph_deployment_from_name(self, graph_deployment_name: str) -> dict:
"""Get the graph deployment from the dynamo graph deployment name"""
return retry_kubernetes_read(

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isn't client-go automatically retrying reads? Shouldn't we align with that?

class TestK8sClientTransport(unittest.TestCase):
"""The agent's CoreV1Api must be built on a client whose transport does NOT
retry: a retried pod LIST amplifies apiserver load under P&F throttling
(sttts's original concern) AND stretches a single LIST's wall-clock time,

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aren't we now doing exactly what I was concerned about for this read?

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RUN pip install --no-cache-dir \
pynvml==12.0.* \
kubernetes==30.* \
"kubernetes @ https://github.com/kubernetes-client/python/archive/5d5e3ed698940a5e403f2f95ccf4a1f42d1a5c6c.tar.gz" \

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we have to wait for a release I guess

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