GPU Device Plugin Configuration¶

Intel GPU plugin enables Kubernetes clusters to utilize Intel GPUs for hardware acceleration of various workloads.

This section describes how to enable and use the Intel GPU device plugin in StarlingX.

Prerequisites

The host should have Intel GPU hardware. For supported GPU devices, refer to Intel GPU plugin documentation for more details: Intel GPU device plugin for Kubernetes.

Node Feature Discovery application must be installed using the following commands:

~(keystone_admin)]$ system application-upload /usr/local/share/applications/helm/node-feature-discovery-<version>.tgz
~(keystone_admin)]$ system application-apply node-feature-discovery

Replace <version> with the latest version number.

Enable Intel GPU Device Plugin¶

Locate the application tarball in the /usr/local/share/applications/helm directory. For example:

/usr/local/share/applications/helm/intel-device-plugins-operator-<version>.tgz
Upload the application using the following command.
```
~(keystone_admin)]$ system application-upload intel-device-plugins-operator-<version>.tgz
```
Replace <version> with the latest version number.
Verify that the application has been uploaded successfully.
```
~(keystone_admin)]$ system application-list
```

Check the helm chart status using the following command:

~(keystone_admin)]$ system helm-override-list intel-device-plugins-operator --long

Enable GPU Helm chart using the following command:

~(keystone_admin)]$ system helm-chart-attribute-modify --enabled true intel-device-plugins-operator intel-device-plugins-gpu intel-device-plugins-operator

Apply the application using the following command:

~(keystone_admin)]$ system application-apply intel-device-plugins-operator

Monitor the status of the application using one of the following commands.

~(keystone_admin)]$ watch -n 5 system application-list

~(keystone_admin)]$ watch kubectl get pods -n intel-device-plugins-operator

Pods can be checked using the following command:

$ kubectl get pods -n intel-device-plugins-operator

Use Intel GPU Device Plugin¶

For information related to using GPU device plugin, see Testing and Demos.