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feat: enforce consistent priority class for gang jobs at scheduler level#4625

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What type of PR is this?

Enhancement

What this PR does / why we need it

  • Adds scheduler-level validation to ensure all jobs in a gang have the same priority class
  • Previously, gang priority class consistency was only validated at the API level within a single submission request
  • Users could bypass this by submitting gang members across multiple API calls with different priority classes
  • This caused confusion when acting on a gang, as some jobs could be preemptible while others were not

In order to reproduce:

  1. Submit a gang job:
queue: queue-a
jobSetId: gang-priority-test
jobs:
  - namespace: default
    priority: 0
    annotations:
      armadaproject.io/gangId: "test-gang-priority"
      armadaproject.io/gangCardinality: "2"
    podSpec:
      terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 0
      restartPolicy: Never
      priorityClassName: armada-default
      containers:
        - name: sleeper
          image: alpine:latest
          command: ["sleep", "60"]
          resources:
            limits:
              memory: 128Mi
              cpu: 0.1
            requests:
              memory: 128Mi
              cpu: 0.1
  1. Submit another gang job which references a different priority class:
queue: queue-a
jobSetId: gang-priority-test
jobs:
  - namespace: default
    priority: 0
    annotations:
      armadaproject.io/gangId: "test-gang-priority"
      armadaproject.io/gangCardinality: "2"
    podSpec:
      terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 0
      restartPolicy: Never
      priorityClassName: armada-preemptible
      containers:
        - name: sleeper
          image: alpine:latest
          command: ["sleep", "60"]
          resources:
            limits:
              memory: 128Mi
              cpu: 0.1
            requests:
              memory: 128Mi
              cpu: 0.1

The job should be refused by the system with an error:

cannot submit jobs with different priority classes to the same gang - job 01kfn9evtyabjmbj9ghyaza0cz has priority class armada-default but job 01kfn9f0qgs9rn7wkvympxjehh has armada-preemptible
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Which issue(s) this PR fixes

Fixes #

Special notes for your reviewer

@dejanzele dejanzele requested a review from JamesMurkin January 23, 2026 11:30
@dejanzele dejanzele enabled auto-merge (squash) January 28, 2026 11:47
@dejanzele dejanzele merged commit a0fbbcf into armadaproject:master Jan 28, 2026
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Sigele pushed a commit to Sigele/armada that referenced this pull request Jan 30, 2026
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#### What type of PR is this?

Enhancement

#### What this PR does / why we need it

- Adds scheduler-level validation to ensure all jobs in a gang have the
same priority class
- Previously, gang priority class consistency was only validated at the
API level within a single submission request
- Users could bypass this by submitting gang members across multiple API
calls with different priority classes
- This caused confusion when acting on a gang, as some jobs could be
preemptible while others were not

In order to reproduce:
1. Submit a gang job:
  ```
  queue: queue-a
  jobSetId: gang-priority-test
  jobs:
    - namespace: default
      priority: 0
      annotations:
        armadaproject.io/gangId: "test-gang-priority"
        armadaproject.io/gangCardinality: "2"
      podSpec:
        terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 0
        restartPolicy: Never
        priorityClassName: armada-default
        containers:
          - name: sleeper
            image: alpine:latest
            command: ["sleep", "60"]
            resources:
              limits:
                memory: 128Mi
                cpu: 0.1
              requests:
                memory: 128Mi
                cpu: 0.1
  ```
2. Submit another gang job which references a different priority class:
  ```
  queue: queue-a
  jobSetId: gang-priority-test
  jobs:
    - namespace: default
      priority: 0
      annotations:
        armadaproject.io/gangId: "test-gang-priority"
        armadaproject.io/gangCardinality: "2"
      podSpec:
        terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 0
        restartPolicy: Never
        priorityClassName: armada-preemptible
        containers:
          - name: sleeper
            image: alpine:latest
            command: ["sleep", "60"]
            resources:
              limits:
                memory: 128Mi
                cpu: 0.1
              requests:
                memory: 128Mi
                cpu: 0.1
  ```

The job should be refused by the system with an error:
```
cannot submit jobs with different priority classes to the same gang - job 01kfn9evtyabjmbj9ghyaza0cz has priority class armada-default but job 01kfn9f0qgs9rn7wkvympxjehh has armada-preemptible
```

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#### Special notes for your reviewer

Signed-off-by: Dejan Zele Pejchev <pejcev.dejan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sigele Nickerson-Adams <sigele.nickerson-adams@nmc2.ai>
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