ack-ppu-device-plugin - Container Service for Kubernetes

ack-ppu-device-plugin manages and exposes Zhenwu Parallel Processing Unit (PPU) heterogeneous computing resources on nodes in ACK clusters. It connects nodes to the control plane, reports the health status and quantity of PPU devices, and allocates and mounts devices to pods based on their resource requests, making PPU devices available to your workloads.

Overview

ack-ppu-device-plugin is the standard Zhenwu PPU device plugin provided by ACK. It discovers and reports Zhenwu PPU devices on nodes so that Kubernetes can schedule them as resources. It natively supports in-node device topology-aware scheduling and Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) scheduling. For example, it can report the following Kubernetes resources:

allocatable:
  alibabacloud.com/ppu: xxx
  alibabacloud.com/ppu-2u.4g48gb: xxx
  alibabacloud.com/ppu-3u.4g48gb: xxx
  alibabacloud.com/ppu-4u.1g12gb: xxx
  alibabacloud.com/ppu-4u.4g48gb: xxx
  alibabacloud.com/ppu-8u.1g12gb: xxx
  alibabacloud.com/ppu-8u.4g48gb: xxx
  alibabacloud.com/ppu-12u.2g24gb: xxx
  alibabacloud.com/ppu-16u.2g24gb: xxx
  alibabacloud.com/ppu-16u.4g48gb: xxx
  alibabacloud.com/ppu-1u.2g24gb: xxx
  alibabacloud.com/ppu-1u.4g48gb: xxx
  alibabacloud.com/ppu-24u.4g48gb: xxx
  alibabacloud.com/ppu-32u.4g48gb: xxx
  alibabacloud.com/ppu-64u.4g48gb: xxx

Standard compatibility: The plugin complies with community device plugin standards to ensure compatibility and extensibility.

Release notes

August 2026

Version	Image	Release date	Changes	Impact
1.4.0	registry-cn-wulanchabu.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/ppu-device-plugin:v1.4.0-8a13b6d4-topology-aliyun	August 5, 2026	The Zhenwu PPU device plugin was officially released. Full support for M890P.	This is the initial full release. Upgrades of existing clusters are not affected.