Node feature discovery for Kubernetes
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Node Feature Discovery
Welcome to Node Feature Discovery – a Kubernetes add-on for detecting hardware features and system configuration!
See our [Documentation][documentation] for detailed instructions and reference
Quick-start – the short-short version
Helm
helm install -n node-feature-discovery --create-namespace nfd oci://registry.k8s.io/nfd/charts/node-feature-discovery --version 0.18.3
Kustomize
Alternatively, you can deploy using kubectl and kustomize:
kubectl apply -k "https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/node-feature-discovery/deployment/overlays/default?ref=v0.18.3"
Verify the deployment
$ kubectl -n node-feature-discovery get all
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
pod/nfd-gc-565fc85d9b-94jpj 1/1 Running 0 18s
pod/nfd-master-6796d89d7b-qccrq 1/1 Running 0 18s
pod/nfd-worker-nwdp6 1/1 Running 0 18s
...
$ kubectl get no -o json | jq ".items[].metadata.labels" { "kubernetes.io/arch": "amd64", "kubernetes.io/os": "linux", "feature.node.kubernetes.io/cpu-cpuid.ADX": "true", "feature.node.kubernetes.io/cpu-cpuid.AESNI": "true", ...
[documentation]: https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/node-feature-discovery
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