NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit
Build and run containers leveraging NVIDIA GPUs
Is NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit beginner-friendly?
In the last 30 days, NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit merged 11 of 30 pull requests from outside contributors, and its maintainers usually reply within 1 day. 2 beginner-friendly issues are open now.
- Stars
- 4.6k
- Forks
- 609
- Open beginner issues
- 2
- Indexed issues
- 40
- Avg merge
- 3d 12h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 36
- Dominant language
- Go
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Last GitHub push
- Oct 28, 2026
- Latest indexed
- Sep 19, 2026
- Contributing guide
- Contributing guide
- Code of conduct
- Code of conduct
- Beginner labels
- help wanted good first issue
How to contribute to NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit
- Read the contributing guide first: it says how the maintainers want changes proposed, tested and reviewed.
- Read its code of conduct: it covers issues and pull requests as well as chat.
- Your contributions will be published under the project's Apache-2.0 license.
- Pick one of the 2 open beginner-friendly issues below and comment that you want to work on it before you start.
Issues somebody may already be working on are listed last. List everything by date
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 78/100
NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit#2147 · 1 comment ·
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 47/100
NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit#2137 ·
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100
NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit#2128 · 1 comment ·
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[Bug]: nvidia-container-cli fails intermittently with "nvcgo rpc error: timed out" (hard-coded 10s RPC timeout in libnvidia-container)May be free again @henry118 claimed this 46 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openbug needs-triage
NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit#2102 · 2 comments · 1 assignee ·
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100
NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit#2014 ·
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[Bug]: CDI v0.5.0 specs without UUID device names break device plugin in CDI modeMay be free again @cdesiniotis claimed this 136 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openbug dsx-ws-0930 needs-triage question
NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit#1895 · 21 comments · 1 assignee ·
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100
NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit#1880 · 5 comments · 1 reaction ·
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feature lifecycle/frozen needs-triage
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100
NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit#1828 · 1 comment ·
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Refactor CDI pkg out of toolkit repoMay be free again @cdesiniotis claimed this 55 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openfeature lifecycle/frozen needs-triage
NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit#1779 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·
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feature lifecycle/frozen needs-triage
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100
NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit#1677 · 3 comments · 1 reaction ·
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100
NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit#1616 ·
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 10/100
NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit#1542 · 4 comments ·
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Add support for requirements checks to CDIMay be free again @cdesiniotis claimed this 152 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openfeature
NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit#1470 · 2 comments · 1 assignee ·
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feature package-management
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit#1434 ·
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lifecycle/frozen needs-triage question
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100
NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit#1156 · 8 comments · 1 reaction ·
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how to get Vulkan working on Docker swarmMay be free again @cdesiniotis claimed this 93 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openenhancement lifecycle/frozen
NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit#1047 · 7 comments · 1 assignee ·
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit#931 · 4 comments ·
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Remove special cases for legacy imagesMay be free again @elezar claimed this 717 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openlifecycle/frozen
NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit#800 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·
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feature lifecycle/frozen package-management
Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100
NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit#774 · 11 comments · 2 reactions ·
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lifecycle/frozen needs-triage package-management
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100
NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit#650 · 6 comments · 3 reactions ·
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Discoverability issue during CDI spec generation when the program lives inside a snap containerOpenenhancement help-wanted
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit#554 · 7 comments ·
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Detect minimum required GLIBC version for injected driversMay be free again @elezar claimed this 871 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openfeature help-wanted lifecycle/frozen
NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit#543 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·
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[Feature] Support Docker installed using snapMay be free again @elezar claimed this 885 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openfeature help-wanted
NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit#522 · 5 comments · 2 reactions · 1 assignee ·
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100
NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit#179 · 6 comments · 3 reactions ·
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[Bug]: Containers with NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=all fail to start in jit-cdi mode when every GPU is bound to vfio-pciPossibly taken @efegokdemir claimed this 6 days ago. Open
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 85/100
NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit#2163 ·
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[Bug]: nvidia-ctk runtime configure --runtime=docker without --set-as-default leaves default-runtime set to nvidiaPossibly taken @blacksoxx claimed this 13 days ago. Open
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 30/100
NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit#2155 ·
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[Bug]: Containerized installer removes the existing Toolkit installation before the replacement is complete and durablePossibly taken @henry118 claimed this 11 days ago. Openbug needs-triage
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100
NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit#2153 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·
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[Bug]: containerd cleanup removes imports for unrelated drop-insPossibly taken @git-jxj claimed this 23 days ago. Open
Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100
NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit#2134 ·
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[Bug]: create-symlinks and update-ldcache hooks fail container create when the container rootfs is read-onlyPossibly taken @sahanasreenath claimed this 24 days ago. Open
Difficulty 3/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 25/100
NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit#2131 · 2 comments ·
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[Bug]: an empty --drop-in-config overwrites the engine config with drop-in-only contentPossibly taken @efegokdemir claimed this 26 days ago. Open
Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100
NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit#2123 · 2 comments ·
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Address TODO comments in internal/platform-support/dgpu/dgpu.goPossibly taken @truongbo17 claimed this 32 days ago. Opendsx-ws-0930 good-first-issue
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100
NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit#2114 · 1 comment ·
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[Bug]: nvidia-cdi-refresh.service restarts indefinitely while the driver cannot load — the 5-in-10s start limit never trips once an attempt takes over ~1 sPossibly taken @kvnloo claimed this 32 days ago. Open
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100
NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit#2110 · 2 comments ·
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[Bug]:Possibly taken @cdesiniotis claimed this 63 days ago. Openbug needs-triage
NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit#2034 · 2 comments · 1 assignee ·
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Add metadata to generated CDI specs to indicate how the spec was generatedPossibly taken @bhaskargurram-ai claimed this 18 days ago. Openfeature help-wanted needs-triage
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 32/100
NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit#1226 · 3 comments ·
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