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Context

This is an additive follow-up to #14419. That PR introduced named component roles while deliberately leaving role cardinality out of the 1.5/backport foundation.

Some compound component types need explicit role cardinalities. This PR adds the shared roles[].replicas surface while defining behavior only for the role schema implemented today: multinode leader and worker roles.

API change

The three replica dimensions remain distinct:

component.replicas  = complete component instances
multinode.nodeCount = logical nodes/ranks in each multinode instance
roles[].replicas    = role cardinality inside one component instance

The existing implicit form remains valid and unchanged:

apiVersion: nvidia.com/v1beta1
kind: DynamoGraphDeployment
metadata:
  name: multinode-example
spec:
  backendFramework: vllm
  components:
  - name: decode
    type: worker
    replicas: 2
    multinode:
      nodeCount: 8
    podTemplate:
      spec:
        containers:
        - name: main
          image: example/engine:latest

Each component instance has one leader and seven workers. Roles may expose that structure without repeating its fixed cardinality:

multinode:
  nodeCount: 8
roles:
- name: leader
- name: worker

Admission persists the resolved values:

multinode:
  nodeCount: 8
roles:
- name: leader
  replicas: 1
- name: worker
  replicas: 7

An explicitly authored value cannot redefine the multinode shape:

multinode:
  nodeCount: 8
roles:
- name: leader
  replicas: 1
- name: worker
  replicas: 6 # invalid: must equal nodeCount - 1

Authority, defaulting, and validation

• multinode.nodeCount remains the authoritative multinode shape and becomes immutable after creation for embedded DGD components and standalone DCDs.
• roles[].replicas is optional on input and has a minimum of 1 when present.
• Admission defaults and persists leader = 1 and worker = multinode.nodeCount - 1 for an explicit multinode role list. Explicit values must equal those fixed values.
• Lowering always derives multinode PodClique cardinalities from nodeCount; it does not consume the assertion. This keeps rendering deterministic even if an invalid object bypasses admission.
• component.replicas remains the scale target and counts complete component instances. Multinode roles are not independently scalable.
• The enclosing component type owns the role schema and cardinality semantics. Future compound component types may define different rules.
• v1alpha1 requests are converted to the v1beta1 hub. The v1beta1 mutating webhook uses matchPolicy: Equivalent, so DGD and standalone DCD requests receive the same defaults without a separate v1alpha1 defaulter.

Making nodeCount immutable is the compatibility tradeoff that makes persisted role defaults safe. Otherwise a previously defaulted worker count would become stale when nodeCount changes, and a node-count-only update would require an atomic edit of a newly introduced field. Existing resources remain valid, but callers that previously changed nodeCount in place must now recreate the component or graph deployment to change the multinode shape.

For example, this update is rejected even if the role assertions move with it:

# old
multinode: {nodeCount: 8}
roles:
- {name: leader, replicas: 1}
- {name: worker, replicas: 7}
---
# new: invalid because nodeCount is immutable
multinode: {nodeCount: 16}
roles:
- {name: leader, replicas: 1}
- {name: worker, replicas: 15}

Migration and rollout behavior

• Omitting roles preserves the existing implicit multinode layout.
• Existing explicit role objects without stored replica values are defaulted on their next admission.
• Equivalent implicit-to-explicit and explicit-to-implicit role migrations remain allowed when no role-specific configuration is lost.
• Omitted and canonical multinode role replicas normalize to the same worker-generation hash, including when a role has a providerOverride. Persisting the defaults therefore does not trigger a rollout by itself.
• Actual role-specific provider changes still follow the enclosing component rollout behavior.
• multinode.nodeCount updates are rejected, including an otherwise internally consistent update of both nodeCount and roles[].replicas.

Implementation

• Adds ComponentRoleSpec.replicas to v1alpha1 and v1beta1, conversion, deep-copy generation, CRDs, and API references.
• Defaults role replicas in DGD and standalone DCD admission and makes the DCD mutating webhook version-equivalent.
• Validates multinode cardinality assertions and nodeCount immutability in the shared DGD/DCD validator.
• Keeps nodeCount authoritative during lowering and preserves rollout-neutral role normalization.
• Removes the now-redundant power-annotation-specific nodeCount immutability check in favor of the shared rule.

Where should the reviewer start?

• deploy/operator/api/v1beta1/common.go — shared field and documented contract.
• deploy/operator/internal/webhook/defaulting/component_roles.go — persisted multinode defaults.
• deploy/operator/internal/webhook/validation/shared_v1beta1.go — cardinality and immutable-shape validation.
• deploy/operator/internal/dynamo/graph.go — authoritative multinode lowering.
• deploy/operator/internal/dynamo/hash.go — rollout-neutral normalization.

Validation

• go test ./api/v1alpha1 ./api/v1beta1 ./internal/dynamo ./internal/provideroverride ./internal/webhook/defaulting ./internal/webhook/validation -count=1
• go test ./internal/controller -count=1
• go vet ./api/v1alpha1 ./api/v1beta1 ./internal/dynamo ./internal/provideroverride ./internal/webhook/defaulting ./internal/webhook/validation
• uv run --no-project --python 3.13 --with pytest --with pyyaml -- python -m pytest docs/fern/scripts/tests/test_gen_kubernetes_api.py -q
• python3 docs/fern/scripts/gen_kubernetes_api.py --check
• make manifests
• make generate
• repository pre-commit hooks

Helm rendering was not run locally because the helm binary is unavailable in this environment; the chart change is covered by admission envtests for both API versions.

Related issues

• Relates to DEP (light): Explicit roles for compound components #14417
• Follows feat(operator): add explicit multinode component roles #14419

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Walkthrough

The operator API adds optional role replica counts for v1alpha1 and v1beta1. Admission defaulting, validation, conversion, runtime expansion, CRD schemas, tests, and Kubernetes API documentation now support multinode leader and worker replica counts.

Changes

Multinode role replicas

Layer / File(s)	Summary
API contract and conversion deploy/operator/api/..., deploy/operator/config/crd/bases/*	Both API versions add positive optional ComponentRoleSpec.Replicas fields. Deepcopy, conversion, field coverage, and CRD schemas preserve and describe the field.
Runtime role expansion deploy/operator/internal/dynamo/..., deploy/operator/internal/provideroverride/...	Multinode expansion resolves authored leader and worker counts, with implicit defaults when counts are omitted. Hash and expansion tests cover equivalent explicit and derived representations.
Admission defaulting deploy/operator/internal/webhook/defaulting/...	Component and graph defaulters assign one leader replica and nodeCount - 1 worker replicas when values are omitted. Explicit values remain unchanged.
Validation and documentation deploy/operator/internal/webhook/validation/..., docs/fern/..., deploy/operator/docs/...	Validation checks replica counts and update transitions. API references, generated descriptions, and related fixtures document explicit role replicas and multinode rules.

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This change adds optional role replica counts while preserving the fixed multinode leader/worker layout. Runtime and admission behavior are covered, but published documentation can still describe invalid configurations and one defaulting test can miss an absent role; these are bounded follow-up risks.

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In `@deploy/operator/api/v1alpha1/dynamocomponentdeployment_types.go`:
- Line 167: Update the documentation describing the multinode layout to state
that the leader role must have exactly one replica and the worker role must have
exactly multinode.nodeCount minus one replicas, rather than only requiring their
sum to equal multinode.nodeCount.

In
`@deploy/operator/internal/webhook/validation/dynamographdeployment_validation_envtest_test.go`:
- Around line 2872-2881: Update the role replica assertion around
component.Roles to build an actual name-to-replica map from the admission
result, then compare it against wantRoleReplicas so every expected role,
including missing leader or worker entries, is detected while preserving
replica-value validation.

In
`@docs/fern/pages/reference/kubernetes-api/additional-resources/api-reference-k8s.md`:
- Line 340: Update the multinode role descriptions at
docs/fern/pages/reference/kubernetes-api/additional-resources/api-reference-k8s.md:340-340
and :386-386, and
docs/fern/pages/reference/kubernetes-api/full-api-reference.mdx:468-468 and
:635-635, to require explicit roles to resolve to exactly leader: 1 and worker:
multinode.nodeCount - 1; remove the wording that permits arbitrary counts whose
sum equals nodeCount.

In `@docs/fern/scripts/tests/test_gen_kubernetes_api.py`:
- Around line 401-404: Replace the assertion checking dcd_roles.description in
the Kubernetes API generation test with an explicit if condition that raises
AssertionError with a clear failure message when the expected text is absent;
preserve the existing validation behavior.

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• deploy/operator/internal/webhook/defaulting/dynamocomponentdeployment_handler_test.go
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