blumeops/docs/reference/services/nvidia-device-plugin.md

title	modified	tags
NVIDIA Device Plugin	2026-03-27	service gpu

NVIDIA Device Plugin

Kubernetes device plugin that exposes NVIDIA GPUs to pods on ringtail. Required for GPU workloads like frigate (object detection) and ollama (LLM inference).

Quick Reference

Property	Value
Namespace	nvidia-device-plugin
Image	nvcr.io/nvidia/k8s-device-plugin
Upstream	https://github.com/NVIDIA/k8s-device-plugin
Manifests	argocd/manifests/nvidia-device-plugin/

Architecture

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.

Time-slicing is configured with 2 replicas per GPU, allowing two pods to share a single physical GPU.