A Helm chart for deploying NVIDIA Dynamo Snapshot checkpoint/restore infrastructure on Kubernetes, distributed as an OCI artifact. This chart works alongside the Dynamo Operator to enable CRIU-based checkpoint and restore for GPU inference workloads, reducing cold-start times for large models from minutes to seconds. It installs the namespace-scoped snapshot agent DaemonSet, checkpoint storage, RBAC, and seccomp profile required by CRIU.

This is the OCI distribution of the snapshot Helm chart. It contains the same chart, byte for byte, as the snapshot entry served from the NGC Helm registry. It is published to nvcr.io so that consumers on OCI-only registries (Azure Container Registry, Amazon ECR, Harbor) can mirror and pull it.

Experimental Feature: Dynamo Snapshot is currently in preview. The DaemonSet runs in privileged mode to perform CRIU checkpoint and restore operations.

Install

helm pull oci://nvcr.io/nvidia/ai-dynamo/snapshot --version 1.4.0

helm install snapshot \
  oci://nvcr.io/nvidia/ai-dynamo/snapshot \
  --version 1.4.0 \
  --namespace dynamo-system --create-namespace

For more information, see the Snapshot guide.

License

NVIDIA Dynamo is released under an open-source license, Apache-2.0, making it freely available for development, research, and deployment.

Disclaimer: Installing this helm chart might result in pulling and running docker images that contain software licensed under GPL-2.0, GPL-3.0+, and LGPL-2.1+. Please make sure to comply with the software license requirements.

Technical Support

GitHub Issues: Dynamo GitHub Issues