Device Plugin - 2023.2 English

FPGA Operator

Release Date
2023-10-30
Version
2023.2 English

The FPGA Device Plugin is used to advertise Xilinx FPGA devices to the Kubelet, and it can be customized via environment variables.

For example, each Xilinx U30 card has two character devices, and you can choose to allocate a U30 computing unit based on either card or device. We can simply add the environment variable ‘U30AllocUnit’ and set it as ‘Card’ or ‘Device’ in the values file.

devicePlugin:
  # deploy a device-plugin daemonset
  enabled: true
  repository: public.ecr.aws/xilinx_dcg
  image: k8s-device-plugin
  tag: 1.2.0
  imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
  env:
  - name: U30NameConvention
    value: CommonName
  - name: U30AllocUnit
    value: Card

To set values using --set flag:

$ helm install --generate-name -n xilinx-system --create-namespace xilinx/fpga-operator \
    --set devicePlugin.repository=public.ecr.aws/xilinx_dcg \
    --set devicePlugin.image=k8s-device-plugin \
    --set devicePlugin.tag=1.2.0 \
    --set devicePlugin.env[0].name=U30NameConvention \
    --set devicePlugin.env[0].value=CommonName \
    --set devicePlugin.env[1].name=U30AllocUnit \
    --set devicePlugin.env[1].value=Card