Alauda Container Platform

Alauda Build of Node Feature Discovery

Alauda Build of Node Feature Discovery (NFD) is based on the Kubernetes SIG Node Feature Discovery project. It detects hardware features and system configuration on Kubernetes nodes and publishes the discovered information as node labels and NodeFeature resources.

NFD provides a shared node-discovery layer for components and workloads that select nodes by operating system, architecture, kernel, CPU, PCI, or other hardware characteristics.

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NFD discovers and labels node capabilities. It does not:

  • install or manage hardware drivers;
  • expose GPU or NPU resources to Kubernetes;
  • replace a vendor Device Plugin, DRA driver, or accelerator operator.

Install the plugin once in each target cluster that requires these node labels. Other Cluster Plugins and workloads can consume NFD labels, while drivers and resource-management components remain independently installed and managed. GPU Feature Discovery (GFD) and NPU Feature Discovery are vendor-specific components. Configure them through their respective NVIDIA GPU or NPU Operator product documentation rather than this shared NFD workflow.

For versions validated with the ACP release documented here, see Validated NFD versions.

For installation and upgrade instructions, see Install Node Feature Discovery.