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DRA · Dynamic Resource Allocation

The Kubernetes mechanism that replaces counting opaque devices with claiming them by attribute, letting a workload request GPUs by memory, topology, or partition rather than by integer count.

Current numbers

GA in 1.34Core Kubernetes DRA graduated to stable in 1.34, released 27 August 2025as of 2025-08-27 · register ↗
Apache-2.0, Apr 2025NVIDIA open-sourced KAI Scheduler (gang, fair-share, DRA, topology)as of 2025 · register ↗
1 / nodeone ComputeDomain per node in the Kubernetes DRA driver — a partial claim strands the node's other GPUsas of 2025 · register ↗

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