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chore: Update documentation for installing EFA device plugin to use official EKS chart #850

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18 changes: 10 additions & 8 deletions containers/faq.rst
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Expand Up @@ -66,22 +66,24 @@ The EFA devices are exposed to the container using the --device option

--device /dev/infiniband/uverbs0

In the kubernetes environment the EFA device plugin is used to detect and advertise
EFA interfaces.
In a Kubernetes environment, the EFA device plugin is used to detect and advertise
the available EFA interfaces. The EFA device plugin can be installed using the `Helm chart provided by Amazon EKS <https://github.com/aws/eks-charts/tree/master/stable/aws-efa-k8s-device-plugin>`_

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kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aws-samples/aws-efa-eks/main/manifest/efa-k8s-device-plugin.yml
helm repo add eks https://aws.github.io/eks-charts
helm install aws-efa-k8s-device-plugin --namespace kube-system eks/aws-efa-k8s-device-plugin

Application can use the resource type vpc.amazonaws.com/efa in a pod request spec
Once the plugin is deployed, applications can use the resource type vpc.amazonaws.com/efa in a pod request spec

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vpc.amazonaws.com/efa: 4

resources:
limits:
vpc.amazonaws.com/efa: 4


Can distributed training jobs be run without EFA devices in container
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No. For distributed training jobs in Trainium all the EFA inrerfaces in trn1.32xlarge needs to be
exposed to the containers
No. For distributed training jobs on Trainium, all EFA interfaces provided by trn1.32xlarge need to be
attached to the container