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Summary

Documents the new Red Hat-published precompiled NVIDIA GPU driver images for OpenShift and refreshes stale version references in the precompiled-driver guide.

What changed

  • Added a new "Red Hat-Provided Precompiled Driver Images" section describing the official precompiled driver images Red Hat publishes at registry.redhat.io/nvidia (image gpu-driver-rhel9), including:
  • The tagging scheme (fixed tags like 580.65.06 vs. the floating major-version tag 580).
  • A ClusterPolicy driver field example showing how to consume these images (usePrecompiled: true, repository, image, version).
  • Updated the "Limitations and Restrictions" section: previously stated NVIDIA doesn't provide precompiled images for OpenShift; now clarifies Red Hat provides official ones, while custom images from other sources (e.g., the NVIDIA community driver container repository) still require self-hosting.
  • Bumped stale example versions in the custom driver image build walkthrough:
  • OPENSHIFT_VERSION example: 4.18.24 → 4.22.0
  • OS_TAG example: rhcos4.18 → rhcos4.22
  • Sample pod name in the CLI verification output: rhcos4.18 → rhcos4.22

Why

Red Hat now officially publishes precompiled GPU driver images for OpenShift, removing the previous requirement to build and host a custom image for common deployments. This page previously said no such images existed, so it needed correcting; the version bumps also keep the walkthrough aligned with a currently supported OpenShift release.

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nikitabugrovsky force-pushed the redhat_precompiled_drivers branch from 29dee76 to f689828 Compare September 2, 2026 17:23

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please review my suggestions and thanks very much for the update! LMK anything I can clarify.

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https://nvidia.github.io/cloud-native-docs/review/pr-486

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@mikemckiernan Thank you for taking the time to review the document updates. I have addressed all of your comments and updated the file accordingly. Could you please take another look when you get a moment?

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@nikitabugrovsky , do you mind squashing your commits to sidestep the DCO issue?

Signed-off-by: Nikita Bugrovsky <[email protected]>

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Signed-off-by: Nikita Bugrovsky <[email protected]>
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nikitabugrovsky force-pushed the redhat_precompiled_drivers branch from 3cd5d3d to 0ea4d59 Compare September 6, 2026 14:55
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@mikemckiernan done!

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mikemckiernan merged commit e2c722d into NVIDIA:main Sep 7, 2026
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