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k8s-device-plugin

NVIDIA device plugin for Kubernetes

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5Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
3.9KGitHub stars
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What it is

NVIDIA device plugin for Kubernetes

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 2:04:58 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month5 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2023-01-30 13:41:46 UTC to 2025-03-03 04:47:10 UTC.

012023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsJan 20232023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsFeb 20242024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMar 2025

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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Jan 20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Feb 20232023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Mar 20232023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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May 20232023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20232023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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Oct 20232023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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Dec 20232023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20242024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Mar 20242024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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Jul 20242024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20242024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Sep 20242024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20242024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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Mar 20252025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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(Disclaimer, I'm working for Google) In my opinion this is a great question. I believe you can go two ways: 1) Get your hands on few physical computers and "old" gpus (like nVidia 1000 series or something like that). Put them as part of a K8S cluster and you have an amazing setup to play around with. Try to squeeze as much flops from your hardware as you can. Bonus points if you also architect around failures and test that by pulling off network cables. 2) Using some Cloud provider use preemptible/spot instances with a bunch of GPUs for few hours at the time. Not sure with other clouds, but with GCP you can create a GKE nodepool that only uses spot instances and in conjuction with cluster autoscaler makes what I described very easy and you don't really have to clean much after you're done messing around for the day. GPUs like K80, T4, or
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P4s are relatively cheap and, if you use them for just 10s of hours a month, you can get away with a bill of 10s of dollars [1]. Either option works fine (IMHO). Another option I am unsure about because I never tried it is to use something like [2] to multiplex your GPU(s) so that you can pretend you have more GPUs to mess around with. However, if your goal is to learn how to manage/write software for multi-gpus/multi-machine clusters this is somewhat limiting because 1) it doesn't teach you much about data locality/compact placement since transfers between virtual GPUs will be extremely fast (i.e. they are sharing the same VRAM pool after all) and 2) you will still have a single machine (even if you are using multiple virtual K8s nodes). [1] 3 instances with 4 GPUs each used for 24h in a month cost you 46$ according to: https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator/?hl=en&dl=CiRhY... [2] https://github.com/NVIDIA/k8s-device-plugin
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