NVIDIA Device Plugin

Overview

NVIDIA device plugin exposes GPUs to Kubernetes workloads. It runs as a DaemonSet on GPU nodes, discovers NVIDIA GPUs via NVML, and advertises them as allocatable resources (nvidia.com/gpu). Includes GPU Feature Discovery (GFD) for node labelling and optional Node Feature Discovery (NFD) for hardware detection.

No CRDs. ConfigMap-based configuration.

Latest: chart 0.19.2, app v0.19.2.

Architecture

node-feature-discovery (NFD) worker
  → detects PCI devices (class 02/03 = GPU)
    → labels node: nvidia.com/gpu.present=true