Platform Support
Prerequisites
Component |
Version |
Notes |
|---|---|---|
Kubernetes |
>=1.29 and <=1.32 |
|
Helm |
v3.5+ |
For information and methods of Helm installation, please refer to the official Helm Website. |
Node Feature Discovery |
>=0.15.6 and <=0.17.0 |
When deploying the Network Operator and GPU Operator on the same cluster, ensure only one instance of Node Feature Discovery (NFD) is installed. We recommend using the version included with the GPU Operator. |
System Requirements
- RDMA‑capable NVIDIA network adapters
NVIDIA ConnectX NICs and SuperNICs
NVIDIA BlueField Networking Platforms
NVIDIA GPU Operator v25.3.x or newer – required for workloads that use NVIDIA GPUs and GPUDirect RDMA.
Supported NVIDIA Network Adapters
The following adapters have been tested and validated with NVIDIA Network Operator:
Product Family |
Network Technology |
Max Port Speed |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
NVIDIA ConnectX‑6 NIC |
Ethernet & InfiniBand |
200 Gb/s |
IB RDMA and RoCE |
NVIDIA ConnectX-6 Dx NIC |
Ethernet |
200 Gb/s |
RoCE |
NVIDIA ConnectX-7 NIC |
Ethernet & InfiniBand |
400 Gb/s |
IB RDMA and RoCE |
NVIDIA ConnectX-8 SuperNIC |
Ethernet & InfiniBand |
800 Gb/s |
IB RDMA and RoCE |
NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU |
Ethernet |
200 Gb/s |
NIC mode only; RoCE |
NVIDIA BlueField-3 SuperNIC |
Ethernet |
400 Gb/s |
NIC mode only; RoCE |
Supported NVIDIA Data Center Systems
The following NVIDIA Data Center systems have been tested and validated with NVIDIA Network Operator:
System |
CPU Architecture |
GPU Architecture |
Network Adapter(s) |
Operating System(s) |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
NVIDIA IGX Orin |
Arm (NVIDIA Orin) |
NVIDIA Ampere |
ConnectX-7 |
Ubuntu 22.04 (ARM64) |
GA (RoCE only, without GPUDirect RDMA) |
NVIDIA Grace ARM Server |
Arm (NVIDIA Grace) |
NVIDIA Hopper |
BlueField-3 (NIC Mode) |
Ubuntu 22.04 (ARM64) / OCP 4.17 / SLES 15.6 |
GA (RoCE only, without GPUDirect RDMA) |
NVIDIA DGX/HGX GB200 NVL72 |
Arm (NVIDIA Grace) |
NVIDIA Blackwell |
ConnectX-7 |
Ubuntu 24.04 (ARM64) |
GA |
NVIDIA DGX/HGX B200 |
x86 |
NVIDIA Blackwell |
BlueField-3 SuperNIC (NIC mode) / ConnectX-7 |
Ubuntu 22.04 / 24.04 (x86) |
GA |
Supported Operating Systems and Kubernetes Platforms
NVIDIA Network Operator has been validated on the following OS / platform combinations:
Operating System |
Upstream Kubernetes |
Red Hat OpenShift |
Rancher RKE2 |
Canonical MicroK8s |
Nutanix NKP |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS |
1.29–1.32 |
— |
— |
1.29–1.32 |
— |
— |
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS |
1.29–1.32 |
— |
— |
1.29–1.32 |
2.14 (K8s v1.31.4) |
RT‑kernel support |
Red Hat CoreOS |
— |
4.15–4.18 |
— |
— |
— |
RT kernels support |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 / 9.2 |
1.29–1.32 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
RT kernels support |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.10 / 8.8 |
1.29–1.32 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
RT‑kernel support |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 |
1.29–1.32 |
— |
1.29–1.32 |
— |
— |
Kubernetes and Rancher |
Supported Container Runtimes
NVIDIA Network Operator has been validated in the following scenarios:
Operating System |
Containerd |
CRI-O |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS |
Yes |
No |
|
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS |
Yes |
No |
|
Red Hat Core OS |
No |
Yes |
|
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 |
Yes |
Yes |
|
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 |
Yes |
No |
Supported Precompiled Container Images for DOCA-OFED Drivers
Overview
To save startup time and operational effort, precompiled DOCA-OFED driver container images are available for common OS/flavor/kernel/architecture variants.
The container image tag pattern used for common variants is: driver_ver-container_ver-kernel_ver-flavor-os-arch. For example: 24.07-0.6.1.0-0-6.8.0-49-generic-ubuntu24.04-amd64
NOTE: For the generic flavor of Ubuntu, the default Kernel version is used for precompiling (e.g. 6.8.0-31 for Ubuntu 24.04). Whereas for all other flavors, their latest (at time of DOCA packaging/release) Kernel version is used.
Supported Operating Systems
Currently precompiled DOCA-OFED driver container images are provided for the following operating systems:
Ubuntu 24.04 (amd64/arm64)
Ubuntu 22.04 (amd64/arm64)
Limitations
NVIDIA supports precompiled driver containers for the most recently released DOCA-OFED GA drivers.
NVIDIA builds precompiled driver containers for
generic,nvidia,aws,azure, andoraclekernel flavors.Precompiled driver containers are currently unsigned.
If your hosts use a different kernel variant, you can create a custom precompiled driver container and host it in your own container registry. Please refer to Precompiled Container Build Instructions for NVIDIA DOCA-OFED Driver Container section.
Warning
Only
generickernel variant is tested and supported as a GA.nvidia,aws,azure, andoraclekernel variants are supported as a Tech Preview and have limited testing.
Network Operator Component Matrix
The following component versions are deployed by NVIDIA Network Operator:
Component |
Origin |
Repository |
Image Name |
Tag |
NVAIE |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
NVIDIA (OSS) |
nvcr.io/nvidia/cloud-native |
network-operator |
v25.4.0 |
Yes |
||
NVIDIA (OSS) |
ghcr.io/mellanox |
network-operator-init-container |
v0.0.3 |
Yes |
||
NVIDIA (EULA) |
nvcr.io/nvidia/mellanox |
doca-driver |
25.04-0.6.1.0-2 |
Yes |
LTS version: 24.10-0.7.0.0-0 |
|
NVIDIA (OSS) |
ghcr.io/mellanox |
k8s-rdma-shared-dev-plugin |
v1.5.3 |
Yes |
||
NVIDIA (OSS) |
ghcr.io/mellanox |
ib-kubernetes |
v1.1.1 |
Yes |
||
NVIDIA (OSS) |
ghcr.io/mellanox |
ipoib-cni |
v1.2.2 |
Yes |
||
NVIDIA (OSS) |
ghcr.io/mellanox |
nvidia-k8s-ipam |
v0.3.7 |
Yes |
||
NVIDIA (OSS) |
ghcr.io/mellanox |
nic-feature-discovery |
v0.0.2 |
Yes |
||
NVIDIA (EULA) |
nvcr.io/nvidia/doca |
doca_telemetry |
1.16.5-doca2.6.0-host |
Yes |
||
Community (OSS) |
registry.k8s.io/nfd |
node-feature-discovery |
v0.15.6 |
Yes |
Optionally deployed. May already be present in the cluster with proper configuration. |
|
Community (OSS) |
nvcr.io/nvidia/mellanox |
sriov-network-operator |
network-operator-25.4.0 |
Yes |
||
Community (OSS) |
nvcr.io/nvidia/mellanox |
sriov-network-operator-webhook |
network-operator-25.4.0 |
Yes |
||
Community (OSS) |
nvcr.io/nvidia/mellanox |
sriov-network-operator-config-daemon |
network-operator-25.4.0 |
Yes |
||
Community (OSS) |
ghcr.io/k8snetworkplumbingwg |
sriov-network-device-plugin |
v3.9.0 |
Yes |
||
Community (OSS) |
ghcr.io/k8snetworkplumbingwg |
sriov-cni |
v2.8.1 |
Yes |
||
Community (OSS) |
ghcr.io/k8snetworkplumbingwg |
ib-sriov-cni |
v1.2.1 |
Yes |
||
Community (OSS) |
ghcr.io/k8snetworkplumbingwg |
plugins |
v1.6.2-update.1 |
Yes |
||
Community (OSS) |
ghcr.io/k8snetworkplumbingwg |
multus-cni |
v4.1.0 |
Yes |
||
Community (OSS) |
ghcr.io/k8snetworkplumbingwg |
whereabouts |
v0.7.0 |
Yes |
||
Community (OSS) |
ghcr.io/k8snetworkplumbingwg |
rdma-cni |
v1.3.0 |
Yes |
||
Community (OSS) |
ghcr.io/k8snetworkplumbingwg |
ovs-cni-plugin |
v0.38.2 |
No |
||
NVIDIA (OSS) |
ghcr.io/mellanox |
nic-configuration-operator |
v1.0.3 |
No |
||
NVIDIA (OSS) |
ghcr.io/mellanox |
nic-configuration-operator-daemon |
v1.0.3 |
No |
||
NVIDIA (OSS) |
ghcr.io/mellanox |
maintenance-operator |
v0.2.2 |
No |