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---
title: "Introduction"
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# Introduction
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This software enables node feature discovery for Kubernetes. It detects
hardware features available on each node in a Kubernetes cluster, and
advertises those features using node labels.
NFD consists of three software components:
1. nfd-master
1. nfd-worker
1. nfd-topology-updater
## NFD-Master
NFD-Master is the daemon responsible for communication towards the Kubernetes
API. That is, it receives labeling requests from the worker and modifies node
objects accordingly.
## NFD-Worker
NFD-Worker is a daemon responsible for feature detection. It then communicates
the information to nfd-master which does the actual node labeling. One
instance of nfd-worker is supposed to be running on each node of the cluster,
## NFD-Topology-Updater
NFD-Topology-Updater is a daemon responsible for examining allocated
resources on a worker node to account for resources available to be allocated
to new pod on a per-zone basis (where a zone can be a NUMA node). It then
communicates the information to nfd-master which does the
[NodeResourceTopology CR](#noderesourcetopology-cr) creation corresponding
to all the nodes in the cluster. One instance of nfd-topology-updater is
supposed to be running on each node of the cluster.
## Feature Discovery
Feature discovery is divided into domain-specific feature sources:
- CPU
- Kernel
- Memory
- Network
- PCI
- Storage
- System
- USB
- Custom (rule-based custom features)
- Local (hooks for user-specific features)
Each feature source is responsible for detecting a set of features which. in
turn, are turned into node feature labels. Feature labels are prefixed with
`feature.node.kubernetes.io/` and also contain the name of the feature source.
Non-standard user-specific feature labels can be created with the local and
custom feature sources.
An overview of the default feature labels:
```json
{
"feature.node.kubernetes.io/cpu-<feature-name>": "true",
"feature.node.kubernetes.io/custom-<feature-name>": "true",
"feature.node.kubernetes.io/kernel-<feature name>": "<feature value>",
"feature.node.kubernetes.io/memory-<feature-name>": "true",
"feature.node.kubernetes.io/network-<feature-name>": "true",
"feature.node.kubernetes.io/pci-<device label>.present": "true",
"feature.node.kubernetes.io/storage-<feature-name>": "true",
"feature.node.kubernetes.io/system-<feature name>": "<feature value>",
"feature.node.kubernetes.io/usb-<device label>.present": "<feature value>",
"feature.node.kubernetes.io/<file name>-<feature name>": "<feature value>"
}
```
## Node annotations
NFD also annotates nodes it is running on:
| Annotation | Description
| ------------------------------------------------------------ | -----------
| [&lt;instance&gt;.]nfd.node.kubernetes.io/master.version | Version of the nfd-master instance running on the node. Informative use only.
| [&lt;instance&gt;.]nfd.node.kubernetes.io/worker.version | Version of the nfd-worker instance running on the node. Informative use only.
| [&lt;instance&gt;.]nfd.node.kubernetes.io/feature-labels | Comma-separated list of node labels managed by NFD. NFD uses this internally so must not be edited by users.
| [&lt;instance&gt;.]nfd.node.kubernetes.io/extended-resources | Comma-separated list of node extended resources managed by NFD. NFD uses this internally so must not be edited by users.
NOTE: the [`-instance`](../reference/master-commandline-reference#instance)
command line flag affects the annotation names
Unapplicable annotations are not created, i.e. for example master.version is
only created on nodes running nfd-master.
## NodeResourceTopology CR
When run with NFD-Topology-Updater, NFD creates CR instances corresponding to
node resource hardware topology such as:
```yaml
apiVersion: topology.node.k8s.io/v1alpha1
kind: NodeResourceTopology
metadata:
name: node1
topologyPolicies: ["SingleNUMANodeContainerLevel"]
zones:
- name: node-0
type: Node
resources:
- name: cpu
capacity: 20
allocatable: 16
available: 10
- name: vendor/nic1
capacity: 3
allocatable: 3
available: 3
- name: node-1
type: Node
resources:
- name: cpu
capacity: 30
allocatable: 30
available: 15
- name: vendor/nic2
capacity: 6
allocatable: 6
available: 6
- name: node-2
type: Node
resources:
- name: cpu
capacity: 30
allocatable: 30
available: 15
- name: vendor/nic1
capacity: 3
allocatable: 3
available: 3
```