NVIDIA/libnvidia-container

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1123 stars · 272 forks observed · 2026-09-03

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A C library and CLI utility (nvidia-container-cli) that automatically configures GNU/Linux containers to leverage NVIDIA hardware, relying on kernel primitives and remaining agnostic of the container runtime. It underpins NVIDIA's container runtime ecosystem for exposing GPUs, drivers, and utilities inside containers.

Use cases

• expose nvidia gpus inside docker containers
• run cuda workloads in containers
• configure gpu passthrough for linux containers
• build a custom container runtime with gpu support
• mount nvidia driver libraries into a container rootfs
• run nvidia-smi from inside a container

When to choose

• you need GPU access in Linux containers without depending on a specific container runtime
• you are building or integrating a container runtime that must support NVIDIA GPUs
• you want a low-level CLI to manually configure GPU namespaces and mounts

When to avoid

• you just want to run GPU containers with Docker - use nvidia-container-toolkit / nvidia-container-runtime instead
• you are on non-Linux platforms such as Windows or macOS
• you need GPU support outside of containerized environments

Facets

library · maturity stable

container-runtime developer-tools cli gpu-computing developer-tools cloud-computing c cli nvidia gpu containers cuda container-runtime linux docker

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