vsphere-csi-driver vs k8s-device-plugin

vsphere-csi-driver

vSphere storage Container Storage Interface (CSI) plugin (by kubernetes-sigs)

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k8s-device-plugin

NVIDIA device plugin for Kubernetes (by NVIDIA)

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vsphere-csi-driver		k8s-device-plugin
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6	Mentions	11
278	Stars	2,411
3.2%	Growth	3.7%
9.3	Activity	9.6
1 day ago	Latest Commit	6 days ago
Go	Language	Go
Apache License 2.0	License	Apache License 2.0

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vsphere-csi-driver

Posts with mentions or reviews of vsphere-csi-driver. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-01.

Understanding Kubernetes Limits and Requests
9 projects | dev.to | 1 Dec 2022

As we covered in our "What's new in Kubernetes 1.19" article, the CSI driver for vSphere has been stable for some time. Now, all plugin operations for vspherevolume are now redirected to the out-of-tree 'csi.vsphere.vmware.com' driver.
Default Grafana K8s app PV issue: FailedBinding persistentvolume-controller no persistent volumes available for this claim and no storage class is set
1 project | /r/kubernetes | 28 Jul 2022

Take a look at https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/vsphere-csi-driver as well as the stuff the other person mentioned.
Which one of the two big FOSS RDBMS work best with .Net? MySQL or PostgreSQL?
2 projects | /r/dotnet | 5 Oct 2021

Regarding your question about persistent storage: as I'm running in an on-prem environment I'm using VMware vSphere CSI to integrate our common storage infrastructure but I've to admin that I wasn't aware of OpenEBS even though I don't think that this is something I would need right now.
Serving up storage to docker containers.
3 projects | /r/homelab | 12 Sep 2021
[HELP] VSphere CSI Driver on OK failing versus installed on OCP?
2 projects | /r/openshift | 11 Mar 2021

For your issues with the CSI on OK, please log and issue here, the engineering team do check this github repo https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/vsphere-csi-driver

k8s-device-plugin

Posts with mentions or reviews of k8s-device-plugin. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-09.

Unlocking AI and ML Metal Performance with QBO Kubernetes Engine (QKE) Post
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Feb 2024

https://github.com/NVIDIA/k8s-device-plugin/issues/332#issue...
Nos – Open-Source to Maximize GPU Utilization in Kubernetes
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Feb 2023
Show HN: Nos – Open-Source to Maximize GPU Utilization in Kubernetes
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jan 2023
Time-Slicing GPUs with Karpenter
3 projects | dev.to | 14 Dec 2022

K8s-device-plugin
Understanding Kubernetes Limits and Requests
9 projects | dev.to | 1 Dec 2022

This framework allows the use of external devices (e.g., NVIDIA GPUs, AMD GPUS, SR-IOV NICs) without modifying core Kubernetes components.
Nvidia GPU Plugin: Am I really limited to one pod per GPU?
1 project | /r/kubernetes | 24 Aug 2022

Not talking about MIG. NVIDIA device plugin. https://github.com/NVIDIA/k8s-device-plugin
Nvidia Kubernetes plugin install option that does not require Helm?
1 project | /r/kubernetes | 5 Jun 2022
What is the difference between nvidia device plugin and GPU operator?
2 projects | /r/kubernetes | 12 May 2022

GPU Operator Device plugin
Share a GPU between pods on AWS EKS
10 projects | dev.to | 4 Nov 2021

If you ever tried to use GPU-based instances with AWS ECS, or on EKS using the default Nvidia plugin, you would know that it's not possible to make a task/pod shared the same GPU on an instance. If you want to add more replicas to your service (for redundancy or load balancing), you would need one GPU for each replica.
Looking for a sanity check on a project I'm working on at home, hoping you fine people can help - Raspberry Pi Kubernetes Cluster
13 projects | /r/homelab | 14 Apr 2021

Some notes on Plex/Emby/Kodi and transcoding. If you want true transcoding with GPU acceleration, you have to have Nvidia GPU or be a k8s device plugin genius. The whole idea of mounting elastic devices in k8s is fairly new and rather complex. In the mean time transcoding is best done on a beefy device with a proper CPU (eg i7) or specifically Nvidia GPU because there are numerous pre-made plugins. I just run Plex and Emby on an old ATX gaming machine without GPU acceleration and it works totally fine. They were barely usable for just me when running on the RPis, wouldn't recommend it unless you can figure out how to mount the correct devices in the pod using a custom raspberry pi device plugin . . . lol good luck! - Arm labs device manager: https://community.arm.com/developer/research/b/articles/posts/a-smarter-device-manager-for-kubernetes-on-the-edge - Deis labs Akri device manager: https://github.com/deislabs/akri - Nvidia GPU plugin: https://github.com/NVIDIA/k8s-device-plugin

What are some alternatives?

When comparing vsphere-csi-driver and k8s-device-plugin you can also consider the following projects:

rook - Storage Orchestration for Kubernetes

kubevirt-gpu-device-plugin - NVIDIA k8s device plugin for Kubevirt

blob-csi-driver - Azure Blob Storage CSI driver

harvester - Open source hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) software

okd - The self-managing, auto-upgrading, Kubernetes distribution for everyone

aws-eks-share-gpu - How to share the same GPU between pods on AWS EKS

cloud-provider - cloud-provider defines the shared interfaces which Kubernetes cloud providers implement. These interfaces allow various controllers to integrate with any cloud provider in a pluggable fashion. Also serves as an issue tracker for SIG Cloud Provider.

aws-virtual-gpu-device-plugin - AWS virtual gpu device plugin provides capability to use smaller virtual gpus for your machine learning inference workloads

cloud-provider-openstack

terraform-provider-kubernetes - Terraform Kubernetes provider

sriov-network-device-plugin - SRIOV network device plugin for Kubernetes

containers-roadmap - This is the public roadmap for AWS container services (ECS, ECR, Fargate, and EKS).