Re:Nvidia Kubernetes Engine (NVKE)
by QuentinM on Friday November 06, 2026 @01:31AM
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This is for tenant-isolated k8s clusters using NVIDIA's DSX reference stack, relying on NICo / BlueField to set up isolated networking, and wipes/re-attests each host between tenants. Mostly useful if you're chasing NVIDIA Cloud Partner status or need NVIDIA support across the whole stack.
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Its great to see them open source this stack!
Lots of negativity from HN posters who usually manage 3 Kubernetes clusters in a single region via a managed service on AWS or GCP.
When I wrote a Kubernetes-compatible Rust service, I got a lot of hate too [1].
I got lot of hate too when I tried building a api server compatible engine in rust [1]
> Mostly useful if you're chasing NVIDIA Cloud Partner status or need NVIDIA support across the whole stack.
What if I don't care about the cloud partner status or support, but I still have a lot of Nvidia hardware I need to hand out to run isolated workloads? Seems like deploying straight k8s is the way to go?
Re:Nvidia Kubernetes Engine (NVKE)
by itintheory on Friday November 06, 2026 @09:31AM
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I'm not super familiar with this tool, but I am a k8s administrator. I think it depends on how isolated you need those workloads to be. This seems like a good fit if you want cluster level isolation. There are other projects that implement the Cluster API (CAPI) though, which provide similar functionality, eg declaratively managing tenant clusters.