MesosCon EU 2016

Gaining access to GPUs inside a Docker container is a non-trivial task. Indeed, Nvidia provides both a Docker volume-plugin, as well as a full blown wrapper around Docker itself in order to allow seamless access to GPUs inside a running Docker container. With the advent of the new unified containerizer in Mesos (which runs docker containers natively in Mesos) as well as continued support for the Docker containerizer (which shells out the task of launching docker containers to Docker itself), Mesos needs a way to to seamlessly support GPUs inside running docker containers as well.

This talk covers the details of why gaining access to GPUs inside a running docker container is hard, how Nvidia has solved this problem for standalone docker itself, and how Mesos has now solved this problem in both its unified containerizer and Docker containerizer technologies together.