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nvidia/nvidia-docker

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TLDR

Deprecated and archived wrapper that gave Docker containers access to NVIDIA GPUs. Superseded by the NVIDIA Container Toolkit, which is the current supported path.

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    Status
      Deprecated
      Archived
      Read-only
    Replacement
      NVIDIA Container Toolkit
      Container Runtime
    Use Cases
      GPU containers
      AI training in Docker
      CUDA workloads
    Tech Stack
      Docker
      CUDA
      NVIDIA drivers
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Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Read the deprecation notice and follow the link to the NVIDIA Container Toolkit

USE CASE 2

Migrate an existing nvidia-docker setup to the NVIDIA Container Toolkit install guide

Tech stack

DockerCUDANVIDIA

Getting it running

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min

Repo is archived, do not install nvidia-docker, install the NVIDIA Container Toolkit instead.

In plain English

nvidia-docker was a tool that made it easy to build and run Docker containers (self-contained software packages) that could access NVIDIA GPUs for tasks like AI model training or other graphics-intensive workloads. Docker by default does not pass GPU hardware through to containers, and nvidia-docker solved that problem. However, this project is now deprecated and archived. According to the README, it has been superseded by the NVIDIA Container Toolkit, which is the current supported way to give Docker containers access to NVIDIA GPUs. The nvidia-docker wrapper is no longer supported. If you need this functionality today, the README directs you to the NVIDIA Container Toolkit repository and its installation guide.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Migrate my old nvidia-docker v2 setup to the NVIDIA Container Toolkit step by step
Prompt 2
Show me the install commands for the NVIDIA Container Toolkit on Ubuntu 22.04
Prompt 3
Help me run a CUDA container with docker run --gpus all using the current toolkit
Prompt 4
Diff the old nvidia-docker CLI workflow against the new --gpus flag workflow
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