Node Feature Discovery

Welcome to Node Feature Discovery – a Kubernetes add-on for detecting hardware features and system configuration!

Continue to:

  • Introduction for more details on the project.

  • Quick start for quick step-by-step instructions on how to get NFD running on your cluster.

Quick-start – the short-short version

Helm

helm install -n node-feature-discovery --create-namespace nfd oci://gcr.io/k8s-staging-nfd/charts/node-feature-discovery --version 0.0.0-master

Kustomize

Alternatively, you can deploy using kubectl and kustomize:

kubectl apply -k https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/node-feature-discovery/deployment/overlays/default?ref=master

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",
...