ci: remove core from deploy-operator & test trigger conditions (#6925)

Signed-off-by: Tushar Sharma <tusharma@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Anant Sharma <anants@nvidia.com>

.github/FILTERS.md

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ When you open a PR, CI checks which files changed and runs only relevant jobs:
 |--------|----------|
 | `core` | Main test suite (vLLM, SGLang, TRT-LLM containers) |
 | `operator` | Kubernetes operator tests |
-| `deploy` | Helm chart validation |
+| `deploy` | Deploy-specific tests |
 | `vllm` / `sglang` / `trtllm` | Backend-specific tests |
 | `docs` | Nothing (classification only) |
 | `examples` | Nothing (classification only) |

.github/filters.yaml

 # CI Filter Patterns - See FILTERS.md for documentation
 #
 # Filters that trigger CI jobs:
-#   core     -> dynamo build-test, all backend builds (vllm/sglang/trtllm), deploy tests
+#   core     -> dynamo build-test, all backend builds (vllm/sglang/trtllm)
 #   operator -> operator build and test
-#   deploy   -> deploy-test-vllm-disagg-router
+#   deploy   -> deploy tests
 #   planner  -> dynamo build-test
 #   vllm     -> vllm build and test
 #   sglang   -> sglang build and test
@@ -105,9 +105,11 @@ operator:
 deploy:
   - '!**/*.md'
   - '!**/*.rst'
+  - *ci
   - 'deploy/helm/**'
   - 'deploy/utils/**'
   - 'deploy/chrek/**'
+  - 'tests/deploy/**'
 
 planner:
   - 'components/src/dynamo/planner/**'

.github/workflows/pr.yaml

@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ jobs:
   # ============================================================================
   vllm-pipeline:
     needs: [changed-files]
-    if: needs.changed-files.outputs.core == 'true' || needs.changed-files.outputs.vllm == 'true'
+    if: needs.changed-files.outputs.core == 'true' || needs.changed-files.outputs.vllm == 'true' || needs.changed-files.outputs.deploy == 'true'
     uses: ./.github/workflows/build-test-distribute-flavor-matrix.yml
     with:
       framework: vllm
@@ -191,7 +191,9 @@ jobs:
       builder_name: ${{ needs.changed-files.outputs.builder_name }}
       build_timeout_minutes: 60
       copy_timeout_minutes: 10
+      run_cpu_only_tests: ${{ needs.changed-files.outputs.core == 'true' || needs.changed-files.outputs.vllm == 'true' }}
       cpu_only_test_markers: 'pre_merge and vllm and gpu_0'
+      run_single_gpu_tests: ${{ needs.changed-files.outputs.core == 'true' || needs.changed-files.outputs.vllm == 'true' }}
       single_gpu_test_markers: 'pre_merge and vllm and gpu_1'
       single_gpu_test_timeout_minutes: 35
       run_multi_gpu_tests: false  # TODO: Dmitry is working on fixing markers for multi-GPU tests, can enable after that is resolved
@@ -202,7 +204,7 @@ jobs:
   # ============================================================================
   sglang-pipeline:
     needs: [changed-files]
-    if: needs.changed-files.outputs.core == 'true' || needs.changed-files.outputs.sglang == 'true'
+    if: needs.changed-files.outputs.core == 'true' || needs.changed-files.outputs.sglang == 'true' || needs.changed-files.outputs.deploy == 'true'
     uses: ./.github/workflows/build-test-distribute-flavor-matrix.yml
     with:
       framework: sglang
@@ -212,7 +214,9 @@ jobs:
       builder_name: ${{ needs.changed-files.outputs.builder_name }}
       build_timeout_minutes: 60
       copy_timeout_minutes: 10
+      run_cpu_only_tests: ${{ needs.changed-files.outputs.core == 'true' || needs.changed-files.outputs.sglang == 'true' }}
       cpu_only_test_markers: 'pre_merge and sglang and gpu_0'
+      run_single_gpu_tests: ${{ needs.changed-files.outputs.core == 'true' || needs.changed-files.outputs.sglang == 'true' }}
       single_gpu_test_markers: 'pre_merge and sglang and gpu_1'
       run_multi_gpu_tests: false  # TODO: Dmitry is working on fixing markers for multi-GPU tests, can enable after that is resolved
     secrets: inherit
@@ -222,7 +226,7 @@ jobs:
   # ============================================================================
   trtllm-pipeline:
     needs: [changed-files]
-    if: needs.changed-files.outputs.core == 'true' || needs.changed-files.outputs.trtllm == 'true'
+    if: needs.changed-files.outputs.core == 'true' || needs.changed-files.outputs.trtllm == 'true' || needs.changed-files.outputs.deploy == 'true'
     uses: ./.github/workflows/build-test-distribute-flavor-matrix.yml
     with:
       framework: trtllm
@@ -232,7 +236,9 @@ jobs:
       builder_name: ${{ needs.changed-files.outputs.builder_name }}
       build_timeout_minutes: 60
       copy_timeout_minutes: 10
+      run_cpu_only_tests: ${{ needs.changed-files.outputs.core == 'true' || needs.changed-files.outputs.trtllm == 'true' }}
       cpu_only_test_markers: 'pre_merge and trtllm and gpu_0'
+      run_single_gpu_tests: ${{ needs.changed-files.outputs.core == 'true' || needs.changed-files.outputs.trtllm == 'true' }}
       single_gpu_test_markers: 'pre_merge and trtllm and gpu_1'
       run_multi_gpu_tests: false  # TODO: Dmitry is working on fixing markers for multi-GPU tests, can enable after that is resolved
     secrets: inherit
@@ -245,11 +251,10 @@ jobs:
 
   deploy-operator:
     runs-on: prod-default-small-v2
-    # Run when any deploy test will run: if core, any framework, or deploy files changed
+    # Run when any deploy test will run: if any framework or deploy files changed
     if: |
       always() &&
-      (needs.changed-files.outputs.core == 'true' ||
-       needs.changed-files.outputs.vllm == 'true' ||
+      (needs.changed-files.outputs.vllm == 'true' ||
        needs.changed-files.outputs.sglang == 'true' ||
        needs.changed-files.outputs.trtllm == 'true' ||
        needs.changed-files.outputs.deploy == 'true') &&
@@ -302,7 +307,7 @@ jobs:
     # jobs unless always() is present. !failure() ensures we still skip on real failures.
     if: |
       always() && !failure() &&
-      (needs.changed-files.outputs.core == 'true' || needs.changed-files.outputs.vllm == 'true' || needs.changed-files.outputs.deploy == 'true')
+      (needs.changed-files.outputs.vllm == 'true' || needs.changed-files.outputs.deploy == 'true')
     runs-on: prod-default-small-v2
     needs: [changed-files, deploy-operator, vllm-pipeline]
     timeout-minutes: 25
@@ -342,7 +347,7 @@ jobs:
     # Run if core, sglang, or deploy is changed (see deploy-test-vllm for always() rationale)
     if: |
       always() && !failure() &&
-      (needs.changed-files.outputs.core == 'true' || needs.changed-files.outputs.sglang == 'true' || needs.changed-files.outputs.deploy == 'true')
+      (needs.changed-files.outputs.sglang == 'true' || needs.changed-files.outputs.deploy == 'true')
     needs: [changed-files, deploy-operator, sglang-pipeline]
     timeout-minutes: 25
     permissions:
@@ -379,7 +384,7 @@ jobs:
     # Run if core, trtllm, or deploy is changed (see deploy-test-vllm for always() rationale)
     if: |
       always() && !failure() &&
-      (needs.changed-files.outputs.core == 'true' || needs.changed-files.outputs.trtllm == 'true' || needs.changed-files.outputs.deploy == 'true')
+      (needs.changed-files.outputs.trtllm == 'true' || needs.changed-files.outputs.deploy == 'true')
     needs: [changed-files, deploy-operator, trtllm-pipeline]
     timeout-minutes: 25
     permissions: