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title: Node Feature Discovery
description: Node Feature Discovery is a Kubernetes add-on for detecting hardware features and system configuration.
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# Purpose

Background service that adds labels to nodes based on detected hardware features.

# Notes

Used in conjunction with nodeAffinity and other scheduling configuration to assign pods to the capable nodes.
