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---
title: Device Plugin
id: device-plugin
date: 2019-02-02
full_link: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/extend-kubernetes/compute-storage-net/device-plugins/
short_description: >
Device Plugins are containers running in Kubernetes that provide access to a vendor specific resource.
aka:
tags:
- fundamental
- extension
---
Device Plugins are containers running in Kubernetes that provide access to a vendor specific resource.
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[Device Plugin](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/extend-kubernetes/compute-storage-net/device-plugins/) are containers running in Kubernetes that provide access to a vendor specific resource. Device Plugins advertise these resources to kubelet and can be deployed manually or as a DeamonSet, rather than writing custom Kubernetes code.