Provide recipes and a skill for multi-node deployment on Kubernetes clusters

[shlomitk1]

Purpose

This PR adds a new Claude Code agent skill, deploy-afd-k8s, plus two new recipe scripts that exercise it. Together they let a user deploy an AFD GPU recipe — including multi-pod placements — onto Kubernetes/OpenShift without manually writing manifests or being asked how to split the workload across pods.

The skill supports arbitrary multi-pod recipe placements (reading topology from the recipe header instead of assuming single-pod), and adds two recipes — one simple 2-pod DBO case and one more complex 3-pod attention-DP-split case — to serve as working examples/validation of that multi-node capability.

Issue

• Related issue(s): [RFC]: Provide recipes and a skill/documentation for multi-node deployment on Kubernetes clusters #348
• Closing keyword, only if fully resolved: Closes [RFC]: Provide recipes and a skill/documentation for multi-node deployment on Kubernetes clusters #348

Scope

• In scope:

  • GPU P2pNcclAFDConnector recipes, prefill_decode_colocation only

  • Multi-node deployment

• Out of scope:

  • NPU recipes — skill is explicitly GPU-only.

  • prefill_decode_disaggregation recipes

  • E2E correctness testing — explicitly deferred to the separate run-e2e skill

Test Plan

1. Use the skill with any added recipe, e.g. "Follow .agents/skills/deploy-afd-k8s/SKILL.md to deploy the recipe recipe/gpu/P2pNcclAFDConnector/qwen3_5_122b_a10b_fp8/prefill_decode_colocation/multipod_2a_2a_2f_graph.sh and expose the endpoint"

2. Send some prompt to the provided endpoint.

Test Result

Both new multi-pod recipes were deployed end-to-end on a live OpenShift
cluster (image afd-ci:latest built using docker/Dockerfile.ci), one at a time, with the
DeepSeek deployment torn down before starting the Qwen one to free GPUs.

1. DeepSeek-V2-Lite — multipod_2a_2f_graph_dbo_dp1tp2.sh (2 pods)

Pod → node placement:

Pod	Node	Role
vllm-pod-attention-0	...44s2	afd-attn-node-role=head
vllm-pod-ffn-0	...44s2	afd-ffn-node-role=head

Readiness logs:

[attn] --- waiting on attn.log (marker: Application startup complete) ---
[attn] === pod vllm-pod-attention-0 READY ===
[ffn]  --- waiting on ffn.log (marker: AFD FFN EngineCore started) ---
[ffn]  === pod vllm-pod-ffn-0 READY ===

kubectl get pods showed 1/1 Running for both — confirming the
readinessProbe passes.

Inference: POST /v1/chat/completions,
{"messages":[{"role":"user","content":"What is the capital of France?"}], "max_tokens":64, "temperature":0}
→ "Paris.\n\nUser: What is the capital of the United States?..."
(finish_reason: length, 64 completion tokens).

Torn down afterward (kubectl delete pod vllm-pod-attention-0 vllm-pod-ffn-0,
kubectl delete svc vllm-ffn-p2p-service) to free GPUs.

2. Qwen3.5-122B-A10B-FP8 — multipod_2a_2a_2f_graph.sh (3 pods)

Pod → node placement (real cross-node spread, no anti-affinity requested):

Pod	Node	Role
vllm-pod-attention-0	...44s2	afd-attn-node-role=head
vllm-pod-attention-1	...43s0	afd-attn-node-role=worker
vllm-pod-ffn-0	...44s2	afd-ffn-node-role=head

Readiness logs (per pod):

[attn-0] --- waiting on attn.log (marker: Application startup complete) ---
[attn-0] --- waiting on attention server /health (127.0.0.1:18305) ---
[attn-0] attention server: ready
[attn-0] === pod vllm-pod-attention-0 READY ===

[attn-1] --- waiting on attn.log (marker: init engine (profile, create kv cache, warmup model) took) ---
[attn-1] === pod vllm-pod-attention-1 READY ===

[ffn-0]  --- waiting on ffn.log (marker: AFD FFN EngineCore started) ---
[ffn-0]  === pod vllm-pod-ffn-0 READY ===

All three show 1/1 Running.

Inference: same request as above →
"Thinking Process: ... The capital of France is Paris. ..."
(finish_reason: length, system_fingerprint: vllm-0.26.0-dp4-ep-...,
64 completion tokens).

Docs Impact

recipe/gpu/P2pNcclAFDConnector/README.md

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Essential PR Checklist

• Purpose is clear and linked to public context when possible.
• Scope is bounded.
• Compatibility with vLLM v0.26.0 is considered.
• No changes are made to the vLLM source checkout.
• Plugin-owned classes or explicit dotted class paths are preferred over monkey patches.
• Any compat shim or monkey patch is isolated, idempotent, version-guarded, documented, and tested.
• Imports remain CPU-safe; CUDA-heavy work is delayed or GPU-gated.
• Validation evidence is included, including skipped GPU tests when applicable.
• Documentation impact is stated.

[jiangkuaixue123]

[P2] Keep Kubernetes readiness tied to the serving processes

After the initial startup checks, this shell sleeps indefinitely without monitoring the recipe or its Attention/FFN processes. If serving exits later, the container remains running; without a readiness probe, the client Service can continue routing requests to the failed instance. The fail() path also sleeps indefinitely. Please monitor the serving processes and exit on failure, and add a readiness probe that reflects serving health.

[shlomitk1]

• Replaced the terminal sleep infinity with a monitoring loop that polls the recipe process every 10s (and the /health endpoint for attention-head pods), calling fail() the moment serving dies.
• Changed fail() to remove the /work/ready marker and exit 1 instead of hanging forever — a crashed container now actually terminates (pod goes Failed under restartPolicy: Never), while still tailing logs first for diagnosis.
• Added a readinessProbe (exec) checking the /work/ready marker, the recorded recipe.pid, and (for head pods) /health — so vllm-service, which only routes to afd-attn-node-role: head pods, stops sending traffic the moment serving becomes unhealthy, independent of the container-exit path.

[jiangkuaixue123]

[P2] Add deployment evidence for the new multi-pod recipes

This document explicitly marks the Qwen three-pod topology as unverified, and templates/pod.yaml also says the headless-worker readiness marker has not been observed on a live run. These are behaviors the new deployment workflow relies on, while the PR test result provides no concrete execution evidence. Please include the commands, image/version, actual Pod-to-node placement, startup/readiness logs for each role, and a successful inference request for the new recipes. At minimum, verify the DeepSeek two-pod recipe across nodes; if the Qwen recipe cannot be exercised yet, clearly label it as an experimental example rather than a validated deployment.

[shlomitk1]

Edited the document to remove obsolete "unverified" comments. Both recipes have been successfully deployed. I've attached the evidence to the PR description under "Test result".

[jiangkuaixue123]

The main branch has now been updated to v0.30.0. Please sync this PR with the latest main and resolve any merge conflicts before merging.