Run the Kind smoke test

Use this contributor smoke test for changes to manifest rendering, submission, Kueue admission, KubeRay lifecycle handling, or the portable Kubernetes path. Kind supplies a disposable local Kubernetes API and Nodes for portable-path validation, distinct from an AKS or provider-integration acceptance test.

From the repository root, local dry-run verifies the checked-in fixture and rendering contracts entirely offline, with no cluster required:

make -C cli build
cli/bin/tau run validate --config examples/kind-smoke/tau.yaml
cli/bin/tau run --config examples/kind-smoke/tau.yaml --dry-run=client

The full smoke test requires Kind, kubectl, Helm, and a healthy Docker or Podman engine with at least 8 GiB of memory. Run:

cd cli
make test-kind-e2e

The test creates or reuses the tau-kind cluster, installs the local TauGrid distribution with Kueue and KubeRay, submits Job and RayJob fixtures, and checks queue admission and lifecycle behavior. A successful run exits 0 after the required workloads and controllers reach their expected states.

It validates queue admission and lifecycle behavior on portable Kubernetes; validate GPU drivers, cloud identity, production storage, private networking, provider CSI integration, and live-cluster quota with an AKS-backed run instead.

The fixture, inspection commands, cleanup controls, and expected flow live in examples/kind-smoke.