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Summary

With SPACE_ENVIRONMENT_PLACEMENT_GATE=shadow on Kubernetes, node-ctl labels each Node with the environments it can run, bound sandbox pods record their environment, and the cluster controller reports how running and pending bound pods compare with the nodes' published environments, all while placing exactly as off. The pod rendering and adoption checks on needs are built and tested here, but on stays refused at startup on Kubernetes until the worker boots the environment a pod requires (see Not covered). This is the Kubernetes half of the gate that PR #1690 adds for Direct.

Terms

• Bound work: work whose record names an execution environment. For a Kubernetes pod's template work, that's the build's binding: its release's execution_metadata.environment, or, when the release records none, the one every node holding the build reports in node_template_inventory. For a fork, it's the source snapshot's binding. For a restore, it's the checkpoint's, or for a stopped sandbox its disk artifact's, else the last published execution's. Unbound work is never refused.
• Environment label: space.pplx.net/env-<algorithm>-<digest prefix>=usable on a Node, one per environment in its node-manager's latest complete inventory's usable_environments (environment_label_key in pplx-space-common-core).

The problem

On Kubernetes, kube-scheduler picks a sandbox pod's node, so the gate in PR #1690, which filters Direct's candidate statements, can't reach placement there. Without node-published evidence the scheduler can see, on would place bound pods anywhere, which is why PR #1690 refuses it at startup on Kubernetes, and shadow can't count anything.

How this fixes it

• node-ctl labels its own Node. Each pass sets exactly one label per usable environment by server-side apply under its own field manager, so a label it stops sending is removed. A complete inventory with no valid observation removes them all, and an unavailable one changes nothing. It reads the inventory through the node-status facet's bounded collector, and runs whatever the gate's mode.
• Pods record and require their environment. While the gate is shadow or on, every bound sandbox pod carries the space.pplx.net/environment annotation. With on, it also requires its environment's label in every required node-affinity term, a restore shortlist's terms included. A pre-bound restore pod therefore fails kubelet admission on a node without the label. With on, a binding that can't be read or doesn't parse fails the pod build before any pod exists. In shadow it's logged and the pod places as with off, as Direct's shadow does for a failed read.
• Each pod takes its environment from what it boots. A cold create, a warm-pool pod and an on-demand materialization take the template build's binding. A fork boots its source's disk artifact, so it takes the source snapshot's binding instead. A suspended sandbox's restore takes the checkpoint's. A stopped sandbox's start takes its current disk artifact's binding, and a drain's stopped re-placement its pinned disk artifact's. A disk's record outlives the node it was written on, so the execution the sandbox last published stands in only when the disk records none. The cross-node re-drive resolves it again for its successor. Template work reads its binding through the shared environment_placement::work_environment, with the scope a Direct pull-on-create uses (BindingScope::ReleaseOrHolders): a pod may land on any node, so no candidate's own inventory row can gate it.
• A pinned restore is checked before its pod exists. A restore pinned to its source node skips kube-scheduler, and kubelet's refusal there is terminal when its bytes are on that node. With on, it's refused with a 409 before any pod exists when the Node reflector shows the source node not publishing the environment, as node-group placement pre-checks the node's group, and the message gives the same way out: drain the node to publish the snapshot to remote storage. A node the reflector doesn't have keeps the pin, with kubelet as the backstop.
• Warm pods are adopted only where the environment is published. With on, both the ordinary claim and a create's admitted slot adopt a warm pod only from a node that publishes the environment of the pod's build. A warm pod built while the gate was off carries no requirement, and node affinity isn't checked once a pod runs, so a node can lose its label under a pod it already holds. A refused slot leaves the pool, and the warm pool replaces it with a pod that requires the label. A warm pod whose node the cache doesn't have goes back to the pool, as for the node-group check.
• The cluster controller counts what the gate does. Once a minute while the gate is shadow or on, the elected leader compares pods with node labels from its reflectors:
  • environment_placement.running_pods{placement} counts bound pods on a node as admitted, no_evidence or environment_not_usable.
  • environment_placement.pending_pods{reason} counts bound pods built with on that the scheduler ruled unschedulable and whose environment no node publishes, as no_evidence (no node publishes any environment) or environment_not_usable.
• shadow runs on Kubernetes; on stays refused. check_kubernetes_support now admits shadow, which no longer warns that it counts nothing, and keeps refusing on with SubstrateError::Unsupported. The Kubernetes gap row is narrowed to on, naming what removes it.

off renders no environment on any pod, and shadow renders off's PodSpec exactly. Once Kubernetes supports it, on stays strict: E0-bound pods need the label too, and nothing falls back when the whole fleet lacks labels. If every node loses its labels at once, as on a new cluster or after a node-manager rollout whose observation node-ctl can't decode, no new bound pod schedules, and pending_pods{reason=no_evidence} shows it. Switching the gate to shadow lets new pods place without the label. A pod already built with on keeps its requirement.

Validation

• New tests drive each pod build path with the gate on and check the created pod's annotation and affinity: cold create (cold_create_requires_the_release_environment_when_the_gate_is_on), fork (a_fork_requires_its_source_snapshot_environment_not_the_templates), on-demand materialization (a_materialized_on_demand_pod_requires_its_release_environment), the cross-node re-drive (a_cross_node_redrive_successor_requires_its_checkpoint_environment), the warm-pool refill (refill_creates_pool_pods_that_require_the_release_environment), a drain's stopped re-placement, including after the source node's published execution is gone (a_stopped_replacement_requires_its_pinned_disk_environment_while_restoring), and a stopped sandbox's start (a_stopped_start_requires_its_disk_environment_after_the_published_execution_is_gone).
• claiming_a_warm_slot_requires_its_node_to_publish_the_environment and adopting_an_admitted_warm_slot_requires_its_node_to_publish_the_environment drive the real claim and the admitted-slot lookup with the gate on: a warm pod on a node publishing another environment isn't adopted and its slot leaves the pool, and one on a node publishing the build's environment is adopted. a_warm_slot_whose_node_the_cache_lacks_goes_back_under_the_environment_gate checks that a slot whose node the cache doesn't have goes back to the pool.
• kubernetes_refuses_on_until_its_worker_boots_the_pods_environment checks that off and shadow start on Kubernetes and on is refused. The call in Substrate::from_env_with_lifecycle reads the process environment, so no test drives it.
• a_pinned_restore_is_refused_before_its_pod_when_the_source_node_lacks_the_environment checks that, with the gate on, a restore pinned to a node that doesn't publish its environment is refused before its pod, that a node the cache doesn't have keeps the pin, and that shadow places as off.
• a_shadowed_pod_records_its_environment_without_requiring_it checks that shadow renders off's PodSpec exactly, and shadow_places_work_with_an_invalid_binding_as_off_would and shadow_places_work_whose_record_it_cannot_read_as_off_would check that shadow places as off when a binding doesn't parse or can't be read, while on fails the build.
• a_fleet_wide_label_loss_counts_running_and_pending_pods_without_evidence drops every node's labels at once and checks that the census reports the running pods, E0 included, and the pods on holds back as no_evidence. a_pending_pod_counts_only_when_no_node_carries_the_label_it_requires checks the pending count's exclusions.
• A local mutation check of 53 hand-written mutants over the resolver, the gate mapping, the pod builder, the label predicates, node-ctl's labeler, the census, the pod view, warm-pool adoption and the wiring at each pod build path: every one fails at least one test.
• cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings: clean.
• Full workspace run through ci/scripts/run-rust-checks.sh (fmt, clippy, isolated crates, unprivileged tests, privileged tests) on a Linux build host: 12633 of 12633 unprivileged tests pass. The privileged lane passes 70 of 76. The six failures are in crates this change doesn't touch, and each fails on a property of the host: three fs-verity tests (verity::tests::sealing_preserves_links_and_checks_the_actual_inode and two artifact_store::execution_cache tests; the host kernel exports no fs-verity symbols), two contained_launcher::linux tests (unsafe ancestors of the test's temporary directories), and spaced-guest-worker::embedding, which needs SPACE_TEST_EXECUTION_PRIVATE_CGROUP_NS=1. CI's privileged lane covers them.

Not validated: a Kind or deployed run with the gate in shadow or on, and node-ctl labeling a real Node.

Dependencies

None. This merges on its own: PR #1690, which adds the gate, its evidence predicate and the Direct placement this builds on, has merged.

Rollout

The gate defaults to off, so merging changes no placement. node-ctl starts writing environment labels as soon as it runs the new build, whatever the gate's mode. A deployment whose chart fences node-ctl's Node writes has to allow the space.pplx.net/env- label prefix first, as this PR does for the Kind chart's nodeFence, or the fence refuses every label apply. Set the gate the same on every API and cluster-controller replica. Run shadow until running_pods reports nothing but admitted and every node on the fleet's build carries labels. on fails startup on Kubernetes until the worker takes the pod's environment as its cache-partition preference (see Not covered). Nodes on a node-ctl build without the labeler carry no labels, so once on is supported it places no bound pod on them.

Not covered

• The build a Kubernetes worker boots. A Kubernetes create passes no cache-partition preference, so template-manager boots the digest's legacy-partition build when the node holds one, whatever environment the pod's affinity required. A node that publishes the required environment can therefore boot another environment's build of the same digest. Until the worker takes the pod's environment as its cache-partition preference, on fails startup on Kubernetes with SubstrateError::Unsupported, and the Kubernetes gap row names that as what removes it. shadow runs: it records, labels and counts without changing placement.
• Runtime-upgrade activations. A restore or start that decides a runtime upgrade renders a pod requiring the recorded environment, while the wake boots the upgrade's target. The same startup refusal covers it.
• A pod whose release records no binding while the nodes holding its build report different ones. Direct gates each candidate by its own inventory row, but a pod requires one label, so with no agreed binding it places as unbound work.
• An E0 exemption, or any fallback when the whole fleet lacks labels. on refuses E0-bound pods on unlabeled nodes too, and the recovery is switching to shadow.
• Kubernetes runtime-upgrade pods. The API renders none yet. When it does, such a pod's environment is the upgrade's target, not its checkpoint's producer.
• The cluster's execution policy, and excluding a node that lags a narrowing policy change.
• Telling stale evidence from incomplete evidence on Kubernetes. Labels carry no receipt time.

Severity and risk

Severity: medium. Without this, shadow counts nothing on Kubernetes, so there's no evidence to decide when the gate can protect those clusters, and nothing on the Kubernetes side is ready for on.

Risk: low while the gate is off or shadow. off renders every pod as today, shadow adds only the environment annotation and places as off, and node-ctl only adds labels under its own field manager. on fails startup on Kubernetes (see Not covered). Once it's supported, with on, a node whose labels are missing or wrong takes no bound work, and a fleet-wide loss of labels stops bound placement until the gate goes back to shadow. Roll back by setting the gate to shadow or off, or by reverting this change.

Docs

docs/execution-environments.md describes the Kubernetes gate, the labels, where each pod's environment comes from and the strict on behavior. docs/observability.md adds running_pods and pending_pods. docs/configuration.md updates SPACE_ENVIRONMENT_PLACEMENT_GATE for Kubernetes. The Kind space-node-ctl-local chart's nodeFence allows the environment label prefix.

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Walkthrough

Kubernetes pods now record the environment associated with their work. In on mode, bound pods require a matching node label, and warm-pool admission checks whether the pod’s node publishes that environment. Node controllers reconcile usable-environment labels from execution inventory. The cluster controller emits running and pending placement counts in shadow and on modes. The change also adds environment-binding resolution for template builds, restores, and forks, with tests and documentation for these paths.

Possibly related PRs

• perplexityai/SPACE#1690: Adds the Direct placement gate and environment-binding lookups extended here to Kubernetes.
• perplexityai/SPACE#1697: Moves Kubernetes pod rendering into pplx-space-sandbox-pod; this PR adds environment annotations and affinity requirements to pod rendering and its create and pool paths.

Merge Risk: Low · up to bca52

The Kubernetes environment-placement changes ship gated, and on mode is still refused at startup. The behavior has not been validated on a real cluster or against a real Node label. One test-ordering concern about the missing-content-hash assertion remains open until it is confirmed at the current head.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to bca52

Strict environment placement remains disabled on Kubernetes, limiting the immediate security exposure. The reviewed changes preserve shadow-mode placement and node-local write restrictions. Production policy parity and live rollout behavior remain unverified.

Retained concerns
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Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The contract spans cold creation, restore, redrive, and warm-pool paths, but reachable off/shadow modes do not turn the new labels into placement enforcement. Under the inspected local admission policy, a node-ctl credential can change allowed environment labels only on its authenticated caller Node. Equivalent production enforcement was not verified.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The inspected local policy narrows existing cluster-wide Node patch authority using authenticated caller-node equality, allowed metadata keys, unchanged Node spec, and fail-closed admission evaluation. The PR adds the environment-label family within that existing ownership boundary rather than granting cross-node writes.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Label reconciliation distinguishes unavailable evidence from a complete but absent or invalid observation: unavailable reads preserve labels, while absent or invalid observations produce an empty desired set. A dedicated server-side-apply manager owns the environment labels, and reconciliation failures are logged without skipping the other Node-object reconciles.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Before a future change enables on, require validation of worker boot-environment fidelity, stale-label and running-pod semantics, and production own-Node admission-policy parity. These are future enforcement prerequisites, not verified vulnerabilities introduced by this shadow rollout.

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