Neuron K8 Release Notes
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This document is relevant for: Inf1
, Inf2
, Trn1
, Trn1n
Neuron K8 Release Notes#
Table of contents
Introduction#
This document lists the current release notes for AWS Neuron Kubernetes (k8) components. Neuron K8 components include a device plugin and a scheduler extension to assist with deployment and management of inf1 nodes within Kubernetes clusters. Both components are offered as pre-built containers in Public ECR and ready for deployment.
Device Plugin: public.ecr.aws/neuron/neuron-device-plugin:2.0.0.0
Neuron Scheduler: public.ecr.aws/neuron/neuron-scheduler:2.0.0.0
It’s recommended to pin the version of the components used and to never use the “latest” tag. To get the list of image tags, please refer to these notes or check the image tags on the repo directly.
To Pull the Images from ECR:
docker pull public.ecr.aws/neuron/neuron-device-plugin:2.0.0.0
docker pull public.ecr.aws/neuron/neuron-scheduler:2.0.0.0
Neuron K8 release [2.1.0.0]#
Date: 10/27/2022
Summary#
Added support for NeuronCore based scheduling to the Neuron Kubernetes Scheduler. Learn more about how to use NeuronCores for finer grain control over container scheduling by following the K8 tutorials documentation in the containers section.
Neuron K8 release [2.0.0.0]#
Date: 10/10/2022
Summary#
Added support for TRN1 and INF1 EC2 instance types.
[1.1.23.0]#
Date: 10/22/2020
Summary#
Support added for use with Neuron Runtime 1.1. More details in the Neuron Runtime release notes at neuron-runtime-release-notes.
[1.0.11000.0]#
Date: 08/08/2020
Summary#
First release of the Neuron K8 Scheduler extension.
Major New Features#
New scheduler extension is provided to ensure that kubelet is scheduling pods on inf1 with contiguous device ids. Additional details about the new scheduler are provided neuron-k8-scheduler-ext. including instructions on how to apply it.
NOTE: The scheduler is only required when using inf1.6xlarge and/or inf1.24xlarge
With this release the device plugin now requires RBAC permission changes to get/patch NODE/POD objects. Please apply the k8s-neuron-device-plugin-rbac.yml before using the new device plugin.
Resolved Issues#
Scheduler is intended to address https://github.com/aws/aws-neuron-sdk/issues/110
This document is relevant for: Inf1
, Inf2
, Trn1
, Trn1n