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GPU Operator#

conceptstub

The NVIDIA GPU Operator: driver, toolkit, device plugin, discovery, and telemetry as one managed stack.

  • Concepts

    How it works: the mechanism, the moving parts, and where it sits in the stack.

  • Design

    Trade-offs, decision records, and when to choose which option.

  • Implementation

    Manifests, Helm values, and scripts. Every script states whether it is read-only or changes the cluster.

  • Testing

    How to prove it works: test procedures, expected output, and performance baselines.

  • Troubleshooting

    Failure modes, symptoms, and the diagnostic path from symptom to root cause.

Planned content

  • ClusterPolicy and the operand DaemonSets
  • Containerized vs pre-installed driver, CDI, and the container toolkit
  • GPU Feature Discovery and Node Feature Discovery labels
  • DCGM exporter telemetry
  • Device-plugin mode (ClusterPolicy) vs DRA mode (GPUCluster)