Device Plugin

Kubernetes provides a device plugin framework that can be used to advertise system hardware resources to the Kubelet. More information about the device plugin framework can be found at https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/extend-kubernetes/compute-storage-net/device-plugins/.

This document presents configuration with the following device plugins:

Device Plugin	Project
SR-IOV network device plugin	https://github.com/k8snetworkplumbingwg/sriov-network-device-plugin
RDMA shared device plugin	https://github.com/Mellanox/k8s-rdma-shared-dev-plugin

SR-IOV network device plugin - A device plugin for discovering and advertising the SR-IOV virtual functions (VFs) that are available on a Kubernetes host.
RDMA shared device plugin - device plugin for sharing RDMA devices between PODs on the same host.