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/	Containers running in Kubernetes that provide access to a vendor specific resource.		fundamental extension

Device Plugins are containers running in Kubernetes that provide access to a vendor specific resource.

Device Plugins are containers running in Kubernetes that provide access to a vendor-specific resource. Device Plugins advertise these resources to {{< glossary_tooltip term_id="kubelet" >}}. They can be deployed manually or as a {{< glossary_tooltip term_id="daemonset" >}}, rather than writing custom Kubernetes code.