Deploy Slurm Cluster Agent Skill

Deploy a Slurm GPU cluster with DeepOps and prove it works. Use when asked to deploy, install, or rebuild Slurm on one or more GPU servers with this repository.

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Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository

npx skills add https://github.com/NVIDIA/deepops --skill deploy-slurm-cluster

The instruction itself

4 sections, as written by the author

Deploy a Slurm GPU cluster

Preconditions

Ubuntu 22.04/24.04 or RHEL/Rocky 8/9 hosts you may fully manage (driver

installs may reboot them; no active users or workloads).

SSH access from the provisioning machine to every host as a sudo-capable

user.

Run everything from the repository root.

Procedure

Prepare the environment and verify it:

   git submodule update --init --recursive
   ./scripts/setup.sh
   cp -r config.example config

Edit config/inventory: put the controller under [slurm-master] and

compute nodes under [slurm-node] (a single machine can be both). Set

the connection user in [all:vars] if not root.

Preflight — must pass before deploying:

   python3 scripts/validation/deepops_doctor.py --remote --json

Fix anything in failures (each check's detail says how) and rerun.

Deploy:

   ansible-playbook -l slurm-cluster playbooks/slurm-cluster.yml

This installs NVIDIA drivers, builds and configures Slurm, and sets up

munge, NFS, and node health checks. Expect roughly 30–60 minutes on a

first run.

Validate on a cluster node — the success signal is this, not the play

recap:

   python3 scripts/validation/validate_slurm.py --json

Require "ok": true with gpu_job_ok: true and

nodes_unavailable: 0.

Failure branches

Playbook fails on a transient error (mirror timeout, apt lock,

network blip): rerun the same playbook; it is idempotent. A converged

rerun ends with changed=0.

nvidia-smi works in the validator's srun job but "fails" over SSH:

that is the login GPU-hide behavior, not an error (see AGENTS.md

gotchas).

gpu_job_ok: false with driver errors: follow

skills/diagnose-driver-install/.

Node shows down or drained in node_states: check

scontrol show node <name> for the reason; after fixing, resume with

scontrol update nodename=<name> state=resume.

Wrong or stale host facts after reprovisioning a node: rerun with

--flush-cache.

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