# pfi-gx10 — the privileged half of outfitting the box as an inference + training # machine. The userspace half (uv, ~/ml/.venv, torch 2.14.0+cu130, the whole # transformers/peft/trl stack) is ALREADY DONE and needed no root; this playbook # is only the part that does. # # scripts/elway infra-ops@10.100.10.226 --playbook playbooks/gx10-outfit-privileged.yaml # # ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── # ⚠ PREREQUISITE — infra-ops has NO NOPASSWD SUDO ON THIS BOX # # pfi-gx10 is the fleet exception: infra-ops is in the `sudo` group with # `(ALL : ALL) ALL`, but every invocation wants a password, and no gx10 # credential is in the vault. elway prompts once via getpass, so an interactive # operator can just run this. A non-interactive agent cannot. # # Step 1 below closes that permanently and makes gx10 consistent with the rest # of the fleet. Run this playbook once interactively and the exception is gone. # ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── # # WHY BARE METAL AND NOT A VM (settled 2026-09-01, do not re-litigate): # Proxmox VE has no aarch64 build, and the GB10's GPU sits on an on-package # NVIDIA root complex cache-coherent with the CPU over NVLink-C2C sharing one # pool of LPDDR5X. Passing it to a guest partitions the unified memory that is # the entire reason for the box. See persistent-memory.d/2026-09-01-pfi-gx10-*. vars: user: infra-ops sudoers_file: /etc/sudoers.d/infra-ops-nopasswd cuda_keyring_url: https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu2404/arm64/cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb steps: - name: Grant infra-ops NOPASSWD sudo (ends the gx10 fleet exception) # visudo -cf validates BEFORE the file is put in place. A malformed # sudoers drop-in locks every sudo user out of the box, and this one is # on a desk with no iDRAC. sudo: true shell: | printf '%s ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL\n' {{ user }} > /tmp/.sudoers-candidate visudo -cf /tmp/.sudoers-candidate install -m 0440 -o root -g root /tmp/.sudoers-candidate {{ sudoers_file }} rm -f /tmp/.sudoers-candidate when: "! sudo -n true 2>/dev/null" - name: Verify NOPASSWD actually took before relying on it # Asserting the effective behaviour, not the presence of a file. shell: sudo -n true changed_when: "false" - name: Add infra-ops to the docker group # The daemon already runs; infra-ops just gets EACCES on the socket. sudo: true shell: usermod -aG docker {{ user }} when: "! id -nG {{ user }} | tr ' ' '\\n' | grep -qx docker" - name: Install the NVIDIA CUDA apt repository keyring sudo: true shell: | cd /tmp curl -fsSLO {{ cuda_keyring_url }} dpkg -i cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb rm -f cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb when: "! test -f /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cuda-ubuntu2404-arm64.list" - name: apt update sudo: true shell: apt-get update -qq - name: Install the CUDA toolkit (nvcc and friends) # NOT `cuda` or `cuda-drivers` -- the driver is already installed and # working (580.173.02) and pulling the metapackage risks replacing it. # cuda-toolkit is the compiler + libraries only. sudo: true shell: DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y -qq cuda-toolkit when: "! test -x /usr/local/cuda/bin/nvcc" - name: Install python3-dev + build-essential (Triton JITs C at RUNTIME) # Triton compiles its CUDA-utils shim with gcc on FIRST USE and needs # Python.h to do it. Without python3-dev, torch imports fine, the model # loads fine, LoRA attaches fine -- and then the first training step dies # with a CalledProcessError from gcc whose real message ("fatal error: # Python.h: No such file or directory") is swallowed, because Triton # sends the compiler's stdout to DEVNULL. Cost a probe run to find. # Same shape as the dots-tts container needing a C compiler at runtime. sudo: true shell: DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y -qq python3-dev build-essential when: "! test -f /usr/include/python3.12/Python.h" - name: Install the NVIDIA Container Toolkit sudo: true shell: DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y -qq nvidia-container-toolkit when: "! command -v nvidia-ctk >/dev/null 2>&1" - name: Wire the container runtime into dockerd sudo: true shell: nvidia-ctk runtime configure --runtime=docker && systemctl restart docker when: "! grep -q nvidia /etc/docker/daemon.json 2>/dev/null" verify: - name: NOPASSWD sudo works shell: sudo -n true changed_when: "false" - name: nvcc is on PATH and reports a version shell: /usr/local/cuda/bin/nvcc --version | grep -q "release" changed_when: "false" - name: infra-ops can reach the docker socket # `sg docker` picks up the new group without needing a fresh login. shell: sg docker -c 'docker info >/dev/null' changed_when: "false" - name: A CUDA container can see the GB10 shell: sg docker -c 'docker run --rm --gpus all nvidia/cuda:13.0.0-base-ubuntu24.04 nvidia-smi -L' | grep -q GB10 changed_when: "false" - name: Triton can actually compile its runtime shim # Asserting the effective behaviour. `dpkg -l python3-dev` would pass while # the compile still failed for a missing header or library path. shell: | V=/home/infra-ops/ml/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/triton/backends/nvidia test -d "$V" || exit 0 gcc "$V/driver.c" -O3 -shared -fPIC -Wno-psabi -o /tmp/.tritoncheck.so \ -l:libcuda.so.1 -L"$V/lib" -L/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu \ -I"$V/include" -I/usr/include/python3.12 rm -f /tmp/.tritoncheck.so changed_when: "false" - name: The userspace torch stack still sees the GPU # Guards against a toolkit install disturbing the working driver. shell: /home/infra-ops/ml/.venv/bin/python -c 'import torch;assert torch.cuda.is_available()' changed_when: "false"