NVIDIA Network Operator

NVIDIA Network Operator Helm Chart

NVIDIA Network Operator Helm Chart provides an easy way to install, configure and manage the lifecycle of NVIDIA Mellanox network operator.

NVIDIA Network Operator

NVIDIA Network Operator manages Networking related components in order to enable Fast networking, RDMA and GPUDirect for workloads in a Kubernetes cluster. Network Operator works in conjunction with GPU Operator to enable GPU-Direct RDMA on compatible systems.

Documentation

For more information please visit the official documentation.

Quick start

Fetch the helm chart using the following commands:

# Add NVIDIA Helm repository
$ helm repo add nvidia https://helm.ngc.nvidia.com/nvidia \
   && helm repo update  # Install Operator

# Install NVIDIA Network Operato Helm chart
$ helm install --wait --generate-name \
     -n nvidia-network-operator --create-namespace \
     nvidia/network-operator

# View deployed resources
$ kubectl -n nvidia-network-operator get pods

Before installing, update the values.yaml file with your preferred configuration. For information on available customizations please read the official documentation.