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What type of PR is this?

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What this PR does / why we need it:

Last of five stacked PRs for SNEP-411. It is based on #738 and targets its branch, so the diff shows only this PR. Merging it turns lifecycle hooks on.

  1. Removes the temporary gate from feat(api): add per-container checkpoint readiness probe and post-restore action #734:
    • the operator flag --enable-lifecycle-hooks and its check on PodSnapshot and SnapshotJob;
    • the chart value operator.lifecycleHooks and its helm unittest;
    • the e2e setup override;
    • the "not enabled yet" line in the field descriptions.
  2. Documents the feature, following docs/development/writing-docs.md:
    • API reference: the containers rows on the three kinds, and a Container settings section with every field and default.
    • Workload contract: a Lifecycle hooks section with the MUSTs for a workload that uses them.
    • Architecture: a detailed Lifecycle hooks page for the mechanism (pacing, resets, the checks before and after CRIU, retries, recovery after a restart, safety of the actions, code map), and one line each in the overview's flows and code map.
    • Troubleshooting: waiting on a probe, and the InvalidCheckpointReadinessProbe failure. The two post-restore steps were documented in feat(agent): notify the application after restore #738.
    • Limitations and the CHANGELOG, flagged as a CRD change.

The guides don't change: the default path to a first checkpoint and restore is the same.

Which issue(s) this PR fixes:

Fixes #411

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Does this PR introduce an API change?

Lifecycle hooks: PodSnapshot and SnapshotJob can set, per container, a checkpointReadinessProbe that decides when to checkpoint, and a lifecycle.postRestore action that notifies the restored application by file or HTTP. A restore succeeds only once its action succeeds. CRD change: deploy the matching CRDs, operator and node agent together.

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  • New Features
    • Checkpoint workflows can use a dedicated readiness probe instead of relying on container readiness.
    • Restored applications can receive a post-restore notification through a file or HTTP request. Restore succeeds only after the action succeeds.
    • Lifecycle settings are saved with snapshot content and applied during restore, without requiring a separate enablement option. Snapshot jobs can pass container settings through their templates.
  • Documentation
    • Added configuration guidance, lifecycle-hook limitations, checkpoint readiness behavior, and troubleshooting steps, including file and HTTP requirements and invalid configuration reporting.

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Walkthrough

The operator no longer requires an enable-lifecycle-hooks flag to accept checkpoint-readiness and lifecycle settings on PodSnapshot and SnapshotJob. The Helm option and test overrides are removed. Documentation describes checkpoint readiness, file and HTTP post-restore actions, and their constraints.

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Lifecycle hook acceptance

Layer / File(s) Summary
Operator acceptance and settings persistence
api/v1alpha1/container_config_types.go, api/v1alpha1/crds/*, operator/internal/controller/*
The operator no longer rejects lifecycle settings based on an enable flag. Reconciliation tests verify that container settings are saved and that SnapshotJob reconciliation succeeds. The removed CRD descriptions no longer state that the operator rejects these settings; the schema fields remain unchanged.
Remove lifecycle-hook flag and Helm option
operator/cmd/manager/main.go, charts/snapshot/*, e2e/*
The manager flag and Helm option are removed. Helm deployment templates and end-to-end override expectations no longer include the option.
Document lifecycle settings and runtime behavior
docs/reference/api.md, docs/reference/architecture/*
The API and architecture documentation describes container settings, their passage through snapshot resources, checkpoint-readiness behavior, and post-restore actions.
Document workload and operational constraints
CHANGELOG.md, docs/limitations.md, docs/operations/troubleshooting.md, docs/reference/workload-contract.md
The documentation describes supported file and HTTP actions, configuration constraints, events, deadlines, restore outcomes, and the requirement to deploy matching CRDs, operator, and node agent.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: Low · previous review d7a5b

The feature is low risk to merge, but operators may be misled by unresolved lifecycle-hook documentation inaccuracies and should receive corrections promptly.

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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Linked Issues check Warning Direct issue [#411] requires file, HTTP, and Unix-signal transports for the same three states: ready to checkpoint, captured, and resumed. The reviewed changes enable file and HTTP `checkpointReadines… Implement the Unix-signal transport and the captured-state notification for the required transports. Add application integration validation for file, HTTP, and Unix-signal transports. Add compatibility coverage for an existing control-volum…
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Title check Passed The title uses the required conventional commit prefix feat:, is 46 characters long, and accurately describes enabling and documenting lifecycle hooks.
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The gate removal, related operator and Helm test updates, end-to-end override updates, and lifecycle-hook documentation support the lifecycle-hook scope in [#411]. The release note and limitations doc…
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Rbac Least Privilege Passed No kubebuilder RBAC marker or Helm RBAC manifest in the reviewed tree grants verbs: ["*"] or resources: ["*"]. The pull request does not modify RBAC markers or RBAC templates. Existing RBAC rules …
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The gate removal, related operator and Helm test updates, end-to-end override updates, and lifecycle-hook documentation support the lifecycle-hook scope in [#411]. The release note and limitations document the resulting API and operational constraints. No unrelated change appears in the supplied whole-PR summary. The three chart CRD files are intentionally excluded, so their exact contents cannot establish additional scope.

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PASS: The API diff changes only the obsolete comment in api/v1alpha1/container_config_types.go and matching generated CRD descriptions. It adds, removes, or changes no exported Go fields or JSON tags. It adds no fields, so no missing +optional or default marker exists. The self == oldSelf immutability markers remain unchanged for both PodSnapshot and PodSnapshotContent.

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Direct issue [#411] requires file, HTTP, and Unix-signal transports for the same three states: ready to checkpoint, captured, and resumed. The reviewed changes enable file and HTTP checkpointReadinessProbe and lifecycle.postRestore actions. They do not provide a Unix-signal transport or a captured-state notification. The supplied evidence also does not show one application integration for each transport or a compatibility validation for existing control-volume integrations.

Resolution

Implement the Unix-signal transport and the captured-state notification for the required transports. Add application integration validation for file, HTTP, and Unix-signal transports. Add compatibility coverage for an existing control-volume integration, or remove Fixes #411 and link the narrower feature to an issue with matching requirements.

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Major · Keep lifecycle hooks gated until every node agent supports them. · podsnapshot_reconciler.go:294

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Keep lifecycle hooks gated until every node agent supports them.

The operator now accepts hook settings and copies them into node-pinned PodSnapshotContent. The operator and agent roll independently. A pre-hook agent waits only for Kubernetes Ready and completes restores without running postRestore. Therefore, a hook-bearing capture or restore on an unrolled node can silently skip the requested hook. Retain the lifecycle gate, or add equivalent per-node capability negotiation, until the agent DaemonSet rollout completes.

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Update captureFromSourcePod and the corresponding restore flow to keep
hook-bearing snapshots gated until every node agent supports lifecycle hooks; if
the existing gate is removed, require equivalent per-node capability negotiation
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Document postRestore as a post-release notification.

The PR removes the lifecycle-hook gate, so this path is now reachable. The agent writes restore-complete and releases the restored process before it runs lifecycle.postRestore. The contract currently documents postRestore as the resume gate.

Update the text to describe the actual ordering:

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-- `lifecycle.postRestore`: after the restore, Snapshot creates a file, or sends
-  a POST with an empty body, that tells the workload it may resume. It replaces
-  step 9's wait on `restore-complete`.
+- `lifecycle.postRestore`: after Snapshot writes `restore-complete` and releases
+  the restored process, Snapshot creates a file or sends a POST with an empty
+  body as a post-restore notification. It does not replace step 9's wait on
+  `restore-complete`.
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Comment on lines +34 to +35
of its own, so a probe that never passes waits until you delete the
`PodSnapshot`, or until a `SnapshotJob`'s `activeDeadlineSeconds`.

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Supported by static analysis

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Document the post-deadline grace window.

When activeDeadlineSeconds expires, the source Job becomes deadline-exceeded and its source Pod is terminated. The readiness wait then ends with source termination, but the pending capture is not failed immediately. The controller can keep it pending for five minutes while it waits for the capture result.

Proposed wording
- The wait has no deadline
- of its own, so a probe that never passes waits until you delete the
- `PodSnapshot`, or until a `SnapshotJob`'s `activeDeadlineSeconds`.
+ The wait has no deadline of its own. A probe that never passes waits until
+ you delete the `PodSnapshot`. For a `SnapshotJob`, `activeDeadlineSeconds`
+ eventually terminates the source Pod, but the pending capture can remain for
+ the controller's five-minute terminal grace window before it fails.
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Update the troubleshooting documentation passage to distinguish the readiness
wait from the pending capture lifecycle: explain that `activeDeadlineSeconds`
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Comment on lines +79 to +82
One deadline, `restoreTimeoutSeconds`, covers the restore and the action. When
no attempt succeeds by then, or a check fails, the restore fails as any restore
does: the agent writes `restore-failed` and kills the destination container,
even though the restored process was already released. The steps in the failure

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Separate check failures from post-release action failures.

A failed check does not occur after the restored process is released. A pre-CRIU check fails before CRIU runs. A pre-release check fails before restore-complete releases the process. Only a post-restore action timeout or failure occurs after release, so only that case should say "even though the restored process was already released."

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-no attempt succeeds by then, or a check fails, the restore fails as any restore
-does: the agent writes `restore-failed` and kills the destination container,
-even though the restored process was already released. The steps in the failure
+no attempt succeeds by then, the restore fails after the restored process was
+already released: the agent writes `restore-failed` and kills the destination
+container. A failed check also fails the restore, but before the restored
+process is released. The steps in the failure
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One deadline, `restoreTimeoutSeconds`, covers the restore and the action. When
no attempt succeeds by then, or a check fails, the restore fails as any restore
does: the agent writes `restore-failed` and kills the destination container,
even though the restored process was already released. The steps in the failure
One deadline, `restoreTimeoutSeconds`, covers the restore and the action. When
no attempt succeeds by then, the restore fails after the restored process was
already released: the agent writes `restore-failed` and kills the destination
container. A failed check also fails the restore, but before the restored
process is released. The steps in the failure
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Review comment at @docs/reference/architecture/lifecycle-hooks.md around lines
79 - 82:
Update the failure description around restoreTimeoutSeconds to distinguish
post-release action timeouts or failures from failed checks. State that
post-release action failures write restore-failed and kill the destination
container after the process is released; describe failed checks as failing
before release, without implying the process was already released.

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`InvalidCheckpointReadinessProbe`; while it waits, the source Pod gets a
`WaitingForCheckpointReadiness` event.

A restore succeeds only after its `postRestore` action succeeds, within

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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Qualify the restore timeout with agent-restart recovery.

This sentence makes config.restore.timeoutSeconds an absolute upper bound. After an agent restart, recovery starts a new full timeout, so the restore can exceed one configured timeout. State this exception or link the recovery rule in lifecycle-hooks.md. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Review comment at @docs/reference/api.md at line 153:
Clarify the restore timeout statement around config.restore.timeoutSeconds:
explain that agent-restart recovery begins a new full timeout, so total restore
duration may exceed one configured timeout, or link to the recovery rule in
lifecycle-hooks.md. Preserve the existing description of when restore succeeds.

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The agent now runs a container's checkpoint readiness probe and
post-restore action, so the operator no longer rejects them. This
removes the temporary gate added with the API:

- the operator flag --enable-lifecycle-hooks, and the check on
  PodSnapshot and SnapshotJob;
- the chart value operator.lifecycleHooks and its helm unittest;
- the e2e setup's override that turned the gate on;
- the "not enabled yet" line in the API's field descriptions.

The operator tests that covered the gate now check that settings are
accepted and reach the PodSnapshotContent. The CPU end-to-end tests
already exercise the hooks; they now run with the chart's defaults.

Part of #411

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: shayasoolin <shay.asoolin@run.ai>
- API reference: the containers field on PodSnapshot, SnapshotJob and
  PodSnapshotContent, and a Container settings section with every
  field, its default, and the failure reasons and steps.
- Workload contract: a Lifecycle hooks section with what a workload
  must do: where the files may be, no post-restore file before the
  restore, HTTP on all addresses, and repeated notifications.
- Architecture: a detailed Lifecycle hooks page for the mechanism, one
  line each in the overview's checkpoint and restore flows, and a code
  map row.
- Troubleshooting: waiting on a probe, and the
  InvalidCheckpointReadinessProbe failure.
- Limitations and the CHANGELOG.

Fixes #411

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: shayasoolin <shay.asoolin@run.ai>
With a checkpointReadinessProbe, a SnapshotJob now keeps the target
container's own readiness probe instead of injecting the
ready-for-snapshot one. The API reference and the Lifecycle hooks page
say so.

Part of #411

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: shayasoolin <shay.asoolin@run.ai>
The docs described the first version of the actions: files opened as
root through the container's root, only on the container's filesystem
or an emptyDir, no host-network Pods, and success on 200 or 204. They
now match the code:

- File hooks run a shell command in the container as its user, so any
  path that user can reach works, and the image needs /bin/sh. A file on
  a volume that outlives the Pod stays for the next restore.
- HTTP hooks succeed on a 2xx status, follow no redirects, and reach a
  host-network Pod at its Pod IP, as kubelet's probes do.
- The only refused probe is one on a port name the container doesn't
  have; it also gets a Warning event.
- The architecture page's safety section and code map follow the new
  code, and the overview says a workload with a postRestore action waits
  for it instead of restore-complete. The waiting event is posted once
  per work order, and again after an agent restart.

Part of #411

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: shayasoolin <shay.asoolin@run.ai>
… place

Before CRIU the agent now checks only the action's settings against the
Pod spec. The file is checked after CRIU and before restore-complete,
since the restored files can bring it or its directory.

Part of #411

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: shayasoolin <shay.asoolin@run.ai>
A SnapshotJob copies podSnapshotTemplate.containers into the PodSnapshot
it creates, so a new PodSnapshot doesn't fix its probe; a new SnapshotJob
with the fixed template does.

Part of #411

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: shayasoolin <shay.asoolin@run.ai>
…s it

The agent sends the probe's GET from the node to the pod's IP, so a
check against localhost inside the container can pass while the
agent's request fails.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: shayasoolin <shay.asoolin@run.ai>
…t doesn't parse

File hooks now run with /bin/sh, /usr/bin/sh, BusyBox, or the distroless
debug images' /busybox/sh. An HTTP path that doesn't parse is refused
before the hook runs, and the agent no longer reads the response body.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: shayasoolin <shay.asoolin@run.ai>
The agent now finds the shell with an `exit 0` no-op and runs the script
once, instead of trying the script with each shell in turn.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: shayasoolin <shay.asoolin@run.ai>
The limitations page and the troubleshooting guide repeated the four
shell paths. Say that the image needs a shell, and leave the list to
the workload contract and the lifecycle hooks design.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: shayasoolin <shay.asoolin@run.ai>
main renamed config.checkpoint.checkpointTimeoutSeconds and
config.restore.restoreTimeoutSeconds to config.checkpoint.timeoutSeconds
and config.restore.timeoutSeconds (#794). Use the new names in the API
reference and the lifecycle hooks design.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: shayasoolin <shay.asoolin@run.ai>
The checkpoint probes moved to lifecyclehooks, and the controller keeps
the gate that paces and counts them.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: shayasoolin <shay.asoolin@run.ai>
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