Davanum Srinivas dims

Kubernetes AI Conformance Implementation Analysis

Comprehensive analysis of 23 certified platforms across Kubernetes v1.33 and v1.34

Generated: 2026-01-29

Executive Summary

CI Jobs Fixed, Created, or Deleted - January 2026

Author: dims

This document tracks all CI jobs that were fixed, created, modified, or deleted through dims' PRs in January 2026.

Summary

Kops CI Job Failure Patterns Analysis

Generated: 2026-01-23 Analysis Method: 3 most recent builds analyzed per job type

Executive Summary

Pattern ID	Failure Pattern	Affected Job Count	Primary Dashboards

Kops CI Jobs Failing with KOPS_STATE_STORE Errors

Generated: 2026-01-23 Last Updated: 2026-01-23

Error Messages

These jobs fail with both of the following error messages:

Cloud Native Stack (CNS) End-to-End Demo Report

Date: January 13, 2026 Cluster: AWS EKS (us-east-1) CNS Version: v0.17.2-next Author: Claude Opus 4.5 Analysis

CNS (Cloud Native Stack) CLI UX Analysis - v4.0

Document Version: 4.3 Generated: 2026-01-14 Last Updated: 2026-01-15 Codebase Branch: main Upstream Commit: a68ee61 Analyzer: Claude Opus 4.5

Running Kubernetes e2e_node Tests Locally with Lima

This guide documents how to run Kubernetes single-node e2e tests (e2e_node) locally on macOS using Lima. Lima creates lightweight Linux VMs that can run the full kubelet with systemd, containerd, and all dependencies required for e2e_node tests.

Why Lima?

Full Linux environment: e2e_node tests require systemd, cgroups v2, and a real container runtime
Docker Desktop limitations: Nested containers don't work properly on Docker Desktop for Mac (fails with "failed to mount rootfs component: invalid argument")
Fast iteration: Mount your local Kubernetes source code directly into the VM
Architecture support: Works on both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs

Device Manager Race Condition Analysis

Executive Summary

A flaky test TestNewManagerImplStartProbeMode in the Kubernetes device manager was causing CI failures in the ci-kubernetes-unit-dependencies job. After thorough investigation, the root cause was identified as a data race between logging code that uses reflection to format structs and gRPC connection cleanup code that modifies internal mutex state.

The race was triggered by a gRPC dependency update from v1.75.0 to v1.78.0, which changed internal buffer handling. The fix involves removing a problematic log statement that logged an entire struct containing a gRPC client.

Kubernetes Dependency Reduction Assessment v3 (Fresh Analysis)

Date: December 22, 2025 Codebase: k8s.io/kubernetes (master branch) Commit: 9720186a466cc627b0417433fb1f66cd1dd96f94 Vendor Size: 68 MB (4,349 Go files across 1,215 directories)

	#!/usr/bin/env bash
	# Validates unwantedReferences classifications in unwanted-dependencies.json
	# Replicates the logic from cmd/dependencyverifier/dependencyverifier.go
	# Usage: ./hack/verify-unwanted-deps-classification.sh [unwanted-module]

	set -euo pipefail

	KUBE_ROOT="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/.." && pwd)"
	JSON_FILE="${KUBE_ROOT}/hack/unwanted-dependencies.json"