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Apr 27, 2025 · Cloud Native

Why Containerd 2.x Fails to Find nvidia‑smi with GPU‑Operator and How to Fix It

When deploying a Kubernetes cluster with kubespray and the NVIDIA runtime, Containerd 2.x reports "nvidia‑smi not found" because the go‑toml v2 parser treats the "binaryName" key differently, causing the wrong runtime wrapper to be used; the article details the configuration inspection, version comparison, code demonstrations, and practical work‑arounds.