You want Kubernetes on NVIDIA hosts through BCM. What is the supported approach?
Why D is the answer
Use BCM's Kubernetes setup
BCM provides its own setup for installing and initializing Kubernetes on NVIDIA hosts.
In detail
- NVIDIA covers installing and initializing Kubernetes through BCM.
- This keeps it within cluster management.
Use case
An illustrative scenario, not a real incident.
A team installs Kubernetes on its hosts with BCM's own setup.
See it in different ways
flowchart LR A["Install head node"] --> B["Software images"] B --> C["Provision nodes"] C --> D["Set up Slurm or Kubernetes"] D --> E["Run workloads"]
sequenceDiagram participant H as Head node participant I as Software image participant C as Category participant N as Compute nodes H->>I: Holds the OS image I->>C: Assigned to a category C->>N: Nodes boot and provision H->>N: Updates when the image changes
flowchart LR S0["Run BCM setup"] --> S1["Initialize Kubernetes"] --> S2["Check nodes"]
Key point: Use BCM's Kubernetes setup.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Copy a cluster config from another site
- Another site's config will not fit.
- B. Install it by hand on each node, one at a time
- That is the slow, error-prone way.
- C. Replace BCM with custom shell scripts
- That throws away the manager.