Exception Request for KEP-5004 Implementation

[John Belamaric]

• Enhancement name:

• DRA: Handle extended resource requests via DRA Driver

• Enhancement status (alpha/beta/stable):

• alpha

• SIG

• Scheduling, Node

• k/enhancements repo issue #:

•  https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/5004 

• PR #’s:

•  https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130653 

• Additional time needed (in days):

•  5 (until Tuesday)

• Reason this enhancement is critical for this milestone:

• The base DRA is going GA in 1.34, but without this enhancement, adoption will be slowed significantly.

• Risks from adding code late: (to k8s stability, testing, etc.)

• This is a feature gated alpha feature with no default enablement. Therefore, risk is low adding this late.

• The PR has been under review for quite a while with a very responsive author and active, responsive reviewers for API, SIG Node, SIG Scheduling, and DRA. A bit more time is needed to wrap up existing review comments. 

• Risks from cutting enhancement: (partial implementation, critical customer usecase, etc.)

• This enhancement allows existing manifests that use device plugins to continue to work with clusters that deploy only DRA drivers for those devices. Widespread adoption of DRA will be difficult for users and for downstream distributions if existing manifests don’t work with DRA-based nodes, so delaying this for another release will significantly slow down adoption of DRA and enablement of critical AI/ML use cases.

Thanks for your consideration.

John

[Mrunal]

+1 from SIG-Node.

Thanks,

Mrunal

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[Dominik Marciński]

+1 for sig-scheduling. I can add that the capacity of scheduling reviewers was very limited in this cycle due to my sick leave.

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[Vyom Yadav]

Hi all,

The release team is APPROVING this exception request based on the discussion in the Slack thread[0]. Your updated deadline to merge code+test PRs for this KEP is: 02:00 UTC 30 July.
If you need any clarification, please feel free to reach out to us in the #sig-release Slack channel.

Thanks,
Vyom Yadav
v1.34 Release Team Lead

[0] https://kubernetes.slack.com/archives/C2C40FMNF/p1753467704762219