Installing Furiosa Feature Discovery
The Furiosa Feature Discovery automatically labels Kubernetes nodes with information about FuriosaAI NPU properties so you can schedule workloads based on specific NPU requirements.
Furiosa Feature Discovery and NFD
The Furiosa Feature Discovery automatically labels Kubernetes nodes with information about FuriosaAI NPU properties, such as the NPU family, count, and various versions. Using these labels, you can schedule your Kubernetes workloads based on specific NPU requirements.
The Furiosa Feature Discovery leverage NFD(Node Feature Discovery) which is a tool that detects hardware features and labels Kubernetes nodes. It is recommended to use NFD and Furiosa Feature Discovery to ensure that the Cloud Native Toolkit is deployed only on nodes equipped with FuriosaAI NPUs.
NOTE
If multiple versions of device-level components (like firmware) exist on the same node, the related labels are removed to avoid conflicts.
Deploying Furiosa Feature Discovery with Helm
With the helm chart you can easily install Furiosa feature discovery and NFD into your Kubernetes cluster.
Following command shows how to install them.
The Furiosa device plugin helm chart is available at https://github.com/furiosa-ai/helm-charts. To configure deployment as you need, you can modify charts/furiosa-feature-discovery/values.yaml.
helm repo add furiosa https://furiosa-ai.github.io/helm-charts
helm repo update
helm install furiosa-feature-discovery furiosa/furiosa-feature-discovery -n furiosa-systemLabels
The followings are the labels that the Furiosa Feature Discovery attaches and what they mean.
| Label | Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| furiosa.ai/npu.count | n | # of NPU devices |
| furiosa.ai/npu.family | rngd | Chip family |
| furiosa.ai/npu.product | rngd, rngd-s, rngd-max | Chip product name |
| furiosa.ai/npu.driver.version | x.y.z | NPU device driver version |
| furiosa.ai/npu.driver.version.major | x | NPU device driver version major part |
| furiosa.ai/npu.driver.version.minor | y | NPU device driver version minor part |
| furiosa.ai/npu.driver.version.patch | z | NPU device driver version patch part |
| furiosa.ai/npu.driver.version.metadata | abcxyz | NPU device driver version metadata |
| furiosa.ai/npu.driver.version.prerelease | abcxyz | NPU device driver version pre-release part |
| furiosa.ai/npu.firmware.version | x.y.z | NPU firmware version |
| furiosa.ai/npu.firmware.version.major | x | NPU firmware version major part |
| furiosa.ai/npu.firmware.version.minor | y | NPU firmware version minor part |
| furiosa.ai/npu.firmware.version.patch | z | NPU firmware version patch part |
| furiosa.ai/npu.firmware.version.metadata | abcxyz | NPU firmware version metadata |
| furiosa.ai/npu.firmware.version.prerelease | abcxyz | NPU firmware version pre-release part |