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page_title: Device Plugins
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description: Device Plugins are used to expose devices to tasks in Nomad.
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# Device Plugins
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Device plugins are used to detect and make devices available to tasks in Nomad.
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Devices are physical hardware that exists on a node such as a GPU or an FPGA. By
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having extensible device plugins, Nomad has the flexibility to support a broad
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set of devices and allows the community to build additional device plugins as
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needed.
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The list of supported device plugins is provided on the left of this page.
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Each device plugin documents its configuration and installation requirements,
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the attributes it fingerprints, and the environment variables it exposes to
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tasks.
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For details on authoring a device plugin, please refer to the [plugin authoring
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guide][plugin_guide].
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[plugin_guide]: /docs/internals/plugins
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