NVIDIA/gpu-operator

NVIDIA GPU Operator creates, configures, and manages GPUs in Kubernetes

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Indexed issues: 38
Avg merge: 1d 20h
Merged PRs (30d): 88

Dominant language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
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[Bug]: GPUCluster ignores daemonsets.updateStrategy=OnDelete Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

NVIDIA/gpu-operator#2957 · Opened Sep 23, 2026
[Bug]: GPUCluster common name label breaks DRA validator selector Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

NVIDIA/gpu-operator#2955 · Opened Sep 23, 2026
[Feature]: add metricRelabelings field to the dcgm exporter service monitor. Open

feature lifecycle/frozen needs-triage

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

NVIDIA/gpu-operator#2938 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
[Feature]: Start Fabric Manager in vGPU multitenancy mode (NVFM_CONFIG_FABRIC_MODE=2) on the vGPU Manager path Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

NVIDIA/gpu-operator#2923 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
[Bug] Preserve stable DCGM discovery across ClusterPolicy and GPUCluster deployments Open

NVIDIA/gpu-operator#2917 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 17, 2026
[Feature]: Merge custom MIG profiles with dynamically generated profiles Open

feature lifecycle/frozen

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

NVIDIA/gpu-operator#2913 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 17, 2026
[Feature]: Configurable max retry/timeout for validators with automatic node tainting on failure Open

feature lifecycle/frozen needs-triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

NVIDIA/gpu-operator#2909 · Opened Sep 16, 2026
[Feature]: Allow overriding the derived OS-tag suffix on driver image versions - OKD/SCOS nodes (os_release ID=centos) resolve to nonexistent -centos10 tags Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

NVIDIA/gpu-operator#2892 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 13, 2026
[Feature]: Support mounting a node-local (on-disk) package repository into the driver container Open

feature lifecycle/frozen needs-triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

NVIDIA/gpu-operator#2884 · Opened Sep 11, 2026
GPU memory is not released after Vision Edge inference process becomes inactive, resulting in CUDA OOM Open

question

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

NVIDIA/gpu-operator#2880 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 10, 2026
[Bug]: Crashlooping nvidia-peermem-ctr: could not insert 'nvidia_peermem': Invalid argument Open

bug needs-triage

NVIDIA/gpu-operator#2868 · 8 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 8, 2026
[Feature]: Ignore already cordoned nodes during driver upgrades Open

feature lifecycle/frozen needs-triage

NVIDIA/gpu-operator#2820 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 27, 2026
[Bug]: Cannot use custom repoConfig together with RHEL host subscription repositories after #2391 Open

bug

NVIDIA/gpu-operator#2817 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 27, 2026
[Feature]: Expose GPU power-limit min/max constraints as node labels Open

feature lifecycle/frozen needs-triage

NVIDIA/gpu-operator#2780 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 21, 2026
[precompiled]: Add support for nvidia-64k precompiled driver container Open

NVIDIA/gpu-operator#2751 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 18, 2026
Support upstream K8s running on Talos Linux worker nodes Open

feature lifecycle/frozen

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

NVIDIA/gpu-operator#2731 · 8 comments · 104 reactions · Opened Aug 11, 2026
[Feature]: Allow custom ServiceAccount for DCGM Exporter DaemonSet Open

feature lifecycle/frozen needs-triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

NVIDIA/gpu-operator#2729 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 11, 2026
[Bug]: go.mod major-version mismatch breaks `go get` and forces insecure pseudo-versions Open

enhancement

NVIDIA/gpu-operator#2691 · 8 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 29, 2026
[Bug]: `nvidia-operator-validator` reports Ready while driver device nodes (`nvidia-uvm`/`nvidia-uvm-tools`) are missing — false positive forces users to run their own CUDA smoke test Open

more-information-needed needs-triage

NVIDIA/gpu-operator#2685 · 19 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 28, 2026
[Feature]: Support affinity / nodeSelector for operand DaemonSets in ClusterPolicy spec.daemonsets Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

NVIDIA/gpu-operator#2626 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 12, 2026
nvidia-peermem sidecar crashloops after "userspace-only install", wedging RDMA nodes and the driver upgrade flow Open

NVIDIA/gpu-operator#2619 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 9, 2026
[Feature]: Persist MIG mode and SR-IOV vGPU VFs across reboot on the sandbox/vGPU path (operator-driven GPU reset) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

NVIDIA/gpu-operator#2600 · 5 comments · Opened Jul 4, 2026
[Question]: How to specifiy /nvidia-fabricmanager/socket for device plugin Open

question

NVIDIA/gpu-operator#2595 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 2, 2026
vGPU Device Manager: no SR-IOV / vendor-specific VFIO vGPU creation on Ada Lovelace / Hopper (mdev-only) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

NVIDIA/gpu-operator#2594 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 1, 2026
[Feature]: Driver upgrades cannot free GPU consumers that lack an nvidia.com/gpu request or run as DaemonSets Open

feature lifecycle/frozen needs-triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

NVIDIA/gpu-operator#2570 · 7 comments · Opened Jun 23, 2026
[Bug]: nvidia-operator-validator fails on nodes with nvidia.com/gpu.deploy.device-plugin=false Open

bug needs-triage

NVIDIA/gpu-operator#2550 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 15, 2026
[Bug]: dcgm-exporter appears to stall after "Initializing system entities of type 'CPU Core'" on H200 with dense MIG topology Open

more-information-needed needs-triage

NVIDIA/gpu-operator#2482 · 6 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 26, 2026
Publish keyless cosign signatures, SLSA provenance, and SBOM attestations for releases Open

feature lifecycle/frozen

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 42/100

NVIDIA/gpu-operator#2432 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened May 6, 2026
[Feature]: add webhook to validate nvidiadriver CR requests Open

feature lifecycle/frozen

NVIDIA/gpu-operator#2282 · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 9, 2026
[Question]: Is the omission of env support for the operator Deployment intentional? Open

lifecycle/stale question

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 64/100

NVIDIA/gpu-operator#2280 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 9, 2026
[Feature]: Leverage kubernetes' live reload functionality for the enterprise license secret Open

feature lifecycle/frozen needs-triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

NVIDIA/gpu-operator#2279 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 8, 2026
[Feature] Optional operator-level policy to require explicit GPU resource requests Open

feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

NVIDIA/gpu-operator#2080 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 29, 2026
How to make NVIDIA MIG Manager restart custom (pre-installed) device plugin daemonset during MIG reconfiguration? Open

feature lifecycle/frozen

NVIDIA/gpu-operator#1704 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 16, 2025
Auto Power-Limit Settings with Operator Policy Open

feature lifecycle/frozen

NVIDIA/gpu-operator#1608 · 1 comment · 12 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 19, 2025
gpu-operator daemonsets are terminated when the NFD device labels include PCI device IDs Open

feature lifecycle/frozen

NVIDIA/gpu-operator#1469 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 4, 2025
bug: operator anti-pattern, validator pod deployments cause `CrashBackLoop` behaviour Open

feature lifecycle/frozen

NVIDIA/gpu-operator#1114 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 13, 2024
containerd restart from nvidia-container-toolkit causes other daemonsets to get stuck Open

enhancement needs-triage question

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

NVIDIA/gpu-operator#991 · 9 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Sep 13, 2024
Support for Configuring GPU Access for Both Containers and VMs on the Same Node Open

feature lifecycle/frozen

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

NVIDIA/gpu-operator#944 · 8 comments · Opened Aug 20, 2024

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