nvidia-device-plugin-helmchart.yaml

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2025-2026 NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. All rights reserved.
# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

# HelmChart CR for auto-deploying the NVIDIA k8s-device-plugin via k3s Helm controller.
# This manifest is conditionally copied into /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/manifests/
# by the cluster entrypoint when GPU_ENABLED=true.
#
# The chart installs:
#   - NVIDIA device plugin DaemonSet (advertises nvidia.com/gpu resources)
#
# NFD and GFD are disabled; the device plugin's default nodeAffinity
# (which requires nvidia.com/gpu.present=true) is overridden to empty
# so it schedules on any node without requiring NFD/GFD labels.
#
# The device plugin is set to deviceIDStrategy=index so that device names are 
# numeric indices (e.g. "0"). This simplifies the conversion of CDI specs on WSL
# systems, where we need to rename the *.nvidia.com/gpu=all device that is
# generated by the device plugin to *.nvidia.com/gpu=0.
#
# k3s auto-detects nvidia-container-runtime on PATH and registers the "nvidia"
# RuntimeClass automatically, so no manual RuntimeClass manifest is needed.

apiVersion: helm.cattle.io/v1
kind: HelmChart
metadata:
  name: nvidia-device-plugin
  namespace: kube-system
spec:
  repo: https://nvidia.github.io/k8s-device-plugin
  chart: nvidia-device-plugin
  version: "0.18.2"
  targetNamespace: nvidia-device-plugin
  createNamespace: true
  valuesContent: |-
    runtimeClassName: nvidia
    deviceIDStrategy: index
    gfd:
      enabled: false
    nfd:
      enabled: false
    affinity: null