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title: NVIDIA Device Plugin
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modified: 2026-03-27
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tags:
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- service
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- gpu
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# NVIDIA Device Plugin
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Kubernetes device plugin that exposes NVIDIA GPUs to pods on [[ringtail]]. Required for GPU workloads like [[frigate]] (object detection) and [[ollama]] (LLM inference).
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## Quick Reference
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| Property | Value |
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|----------|-------|
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| **Namespace** | `nvidia-device-plugin` |
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| **Image** | `nvcr.io/nvidia/k8s-device-plugin` |
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| **Upstream** | https://github.com/NVIDIA/k8s-device-plugin |
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| **Manifests** | [argocd/manifests/nvidia-device-plugin/](https://forge.eblu.me/eblume/blumeops/src/branch/main/argocd/manifests/nvidia-device-plugin) |
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## Architecture
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Runs as a DaemonSet with `privileged` security context, mounting the host's device-plugins socket, CDI specs, and NVIDIA driver libraries. A `RuntimeClass` named `nvidia` is defined for pods that need GPU access.
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Time-slicing is configured with 2 replicas per GPU, allowing two pods to share a single physical GPU.
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