kubernetes-sigs/node-feature-discovery

Node feature discovery for Kubernetes

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Node Feature Discovery

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Welcome to Node Feature Discovery – a Kubernetes add-on for detecting hardware features and system configuration!

See our Documentation for detailed instructions and reference

Quick-start – the short-short version

Helm

helm install -n node-feature-discovery --create-namespace nfd oci://registry.k8s.io/nfd/charts/node-feature-discovery --version 0.19.0

Kustomize

Alternatively, you can deploy using kubectl and kustomize:

kubectl apply -k "https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/node-feature-discovery/deployment/overlays/default?ref=v0.19.0"

Verify the deployment

$ kubectl -n node-feature-discovery get all
  NAME                              READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
  pod/nfd-gc-565fc85d9b-94jpj       1/1     Running   0          18s
  pod/nfd-master-6796d89d7b-qccrq   1/1     Running   0          18s
  pod/nfd-worker-nwdp6              1/1     Running   0          18s
...

$ kubectl get no -o json | jq ".items[].metadata.labels"
  {
    "kubernetes.io/arch": "amd64",
    "kubernetes.io/os": "linux",
    "feature.node.kubernetes.io/cpu-cpuid.ADX": "true",
    "feature.node.kubernetes.io/cpu-cpuid.AESNI": "true",
...
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feature-detection
hacktoberfest
hardware
k8s-sig-node
kubernetes
node-labels
rdt

kubernetes-sigs/node-feature-discovery

Node feature discovery for Kubernetes

Go

1,084

3,519 commits

updated Oct 18, 2026

See the code

README

Node Feature Discovery

Go Report Card Prow Build Prow E2E-Test

Welcome to Node Feature Discovery – a Kubernetes add-on for detecting hardware features and system configuration!

See our Documentation for detailed instructions and reference

Quick-start – the short-short version

Helm

helm install -n node-feature-discovery --create-namespace nfd oci://registry.k8s.io/nfd/charts/node-feature-discovery --version 0.19.0

Kustomize

Alternatively, you can deploy using kubectl and kustomize:

kubectl apply -k "https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/node-feature-discovery/deployment/overlays/default?ref=v0.19.0"

Verify the deployment

$ kubectl -n node-feature-discovery get all
  NAME                              READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
  pod/nfd-gc-565fc85d9b-94jpj       1/1     Running   0          18s
  pod/nfd-master-6796d89d7b-qccrq   1/1     Running   0          18s
  pod/nfd-worker-nwdp6              1/1     Running   0          18s
...

$ kubectl get no -o json | jq ".items[].metadata.labels"
  {
    "kubernetes.io/arch": "amd64",
    "kubernetes.io/os": "linux",
    "feature.node.kubernetes.io/cpu-cpuid.ADX": "true",
    "feature.node.kubernetes.io/cpu-cpuid.AESNI": "true",
...
cpuid
feature-detection
hacktoberfest
hardware
k8s-sig-node
kubernetes
node-labels
rdt

Project health

Overall

6.7/10

Maintained

10/10

Code review

10/10
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Latest release

v0.20.0 · Oct 16, 2026

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