node-feature-discovery vs cri-tools

node-feature-discovery

Node feature discovery for Kubernetes (by kubernetes-sigs)

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cri-tools

CLI and validation tools for Kubelet Container Runtime Interface (CRI) . (by kubernetes-sigs)

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8	Mentions	7
683	Stars	1,551
3.2%	Growth	1.2%
9.5	Activity	9.2
6 days ago	Latest Commit	2 days ago
Go	Language	Go
Apache License 2.0	License	Apache License 2.0

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node-feature-discovery

Posts with mentions or reviews of node-feature-discovery. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-19.

Is there a way for a pod to read certain node OS parameters?
1 project | /r/kubernetes | 25 May 2023

Oh, sorry about that. Please use this link instead: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/node-feature-discovery
Node Labels for Homelab?
1 project | /r/kubernetes | 14 Mar 2023

Look into NFD as it will automatically maintain labels based on hardware attributes including accelerators, CPU models, CPU instruction sets and other hardware detail.
Intel GPU passthrough for Jellyfin
1 project | /r/truenas | 18 Jan 2023

I installed this plugin in combination with Node Feature Discovery, so that the plugin only gets deployed on nodes with an iGPU.
Those running Kubernetes, what is in your core stack? And what "gem" can you not live without?
8 projects | /r/homelab | 19 Sep 2021

node-feature-discovery and descheduler
Which install method do you use?
1 project | /r/homeassistant | 6 Feb 2021

.1. https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/node-feature-discovery
How can Intel quick sync be exposed to a pod?
8 projects | /r/kubernetes | 5 Feb 2021

When deploying without the helm chart, you need to define that in the ConfigMap. Looks like it’s here: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/node-feature-discovery/blob/master/nfd-daemonset-combined.yaml.template#L137-L229

cri-tools

Posts with mentions or reviews of cri-tools. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-04.

Migrating from dockershim to containerd
2 projects | /r/kubernetes | 4 Sep 2022

Installing crictl (https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cri-tools/blob/master/docs/crictl.md) was helpful, as well as journalctl -u containerd.
kubectl get nodes -o wide shows containerd runtime, but sudo ctr containers list doesn't return any containers on host
2 projects | /r/kubernetes | 12 Jul 2022
Debugging containerd, A "new" container runtime means new debugging techniques are required
1 project | /r/kubernetes | 11 Jun 2022

crictl: Uses the CRI interface to fetch data about containers, agnostic of CRIs. Maintained by Kubernetes at https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cri-tools
Quick question: Can you run crictl commands from within a running container?
1 project | /r/kubernetes | 4 Apr 2022

FROM alpine:latest RUN wget -O - https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cri-tools/releases/download/v1.23.0/crictl-v1.23.0-linux-amd64.tar.gz | gunzip | tar xvf - && mv crictl /usr/bin
k8s-the-hard-way
11 projects | dev.to | 26 Oct 2021

# wget https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cri-tools/releases/download/v1.21.0/crictl-v1.21.0-linux-amd64.tar.gz \ https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/releases/download/v1.0.0-rc93/runc.amd64 \ https://github.com/containernetworking/plugins/releases/download/v0.9.1/cni-plugins-linux-amd64-v0.9.1.tgz \ https://github.com/containerd/containerd/releases/download/v1.4.4/containerd-1.4.4-linux-amd64.tar.gz \ https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/v1.21.0/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl \ https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/v1.21.0/bin/linux/amd64/kube-proxy \ https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/v1.21.0/bin/linux/amd64/kubelet
A Window into Docker, minikube, and containerd
4 projects | dev.to | 28 Sep 2021

We are in the endgame now. I promise. From the README, crictl provides a CLI for CRI-compatible container runtimes. The following snippet performs the following:
😎 Manage WebAssembly Apps in WasmEdge Using Docker Tools
9 projects | dev.to | 29 Jun 2021

Also make sure that you have cri-o, crictl, containernetworking-plugins, and buildah or docker installed.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing node-feature-discovery and cri-tools you can also consider the following projects:

intel-device-plugins-for-kubernetes - Collection of Intel device plugins for Kubernetes

cni - Container Network Interface - networking for Linux containers

nfs-subdir-external-provisioner - Dynamic sub-dir volume provisioner on a remote NFS server.

SSVM - WasmEdge is a lightweight, high-performance, and extensible WebAssembly runtime for cloud native, edge, and decentralized applications. It powers serverless apps, embedded functions, microservices, smart contracts, and IoT devices.

smarter

cfssl - CFSSL: Cloudflare's PKI and TLS toolkit

descheduler - Descheduler for Kubernetes

runc - CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification

terraform - Terraform

rustwasmc - Tool for building Rust functions for Node.js. Combine the performance of Rust, safety and portability of WebAssembly, and ease of use of JavaScript.

k8s-gitops - GitOps principles to define kubernetes cluster state via code

wasm-learning - Building Rust functions for Node.js to take advantage of Rust's performance, WebAssembly's security and portability, and JavaScript's ease-of-use. Demo code and recipes.