NFD currently offers two variants of the container image. The "full" variant is currently deployed by default. Released container images are available for x86_64 and Arm64 architectures.
This image is based on debian:bullseye-slim and contains a full Linux system for running shell-based nfd-worker hooks and doing live debugging and diagnosis of the NFD images.
This is a minimal image based on gcr.io/distroless/base and only supports running statically linked binaries.
The container image tag has suffix -minimal
(e.g. registry.k8s.io/nfd/node-feature-discovery:v0.12.5-minimal
)