website/content/en/docs/reference/glossary/device-plugin.md

title	id	date	full_link	short_description	aka	tags
Device Plugin	device-plugin	2019-02-02	/docs/concepts/extend-kubernetes/compute-storage-net/device-plugins/	Software extensions to let Pods access devices that need vendor-specific initialization or setup		fundamental extension

Device plugins run on worker {{< glossary_tooltip term_id="node" text="Nodes">}} and provide {{< glossary_tooltip term_id="pod" text="Pods ">}} with access to resources, such as local hardware, that require vendor-specific initialization or setup steps.

Device plugins advertise resources to the {{< glossary_tooltip term_id="kubelet" text="kubelet" >}}, so that workload Pods can access hardware features that relate to the Node where that Pod is running. You can deploy a device plugin as a {{< glossary_tooltip term_id="daemonset" >}}, or install the device plugin software directly on each target Node.

See Device Plugins for more information.