Building a Metered GPU Sandbox: Infrastructure and Isolation

Building a metered GPU environment is essential for modern AI multi-tenancy.

Hardware Isolation

Using the NVIDIA Container Toolkit allows us to expose GPU drivers to containers safely.

• Isolate GPU driver paths.
• Prevent resource starvation.
• Enable granular telemetry.

Implementation

version: '3.8'
services:
  gpu-sandbox:
    image: nvidia/cuda:12.0-base
    deploy:
      resources:
        reservations:
          devices:
            - driver: nvidia
              device_ids: ['0']
              capabilities: [gpu]
    runtime: nvidia
    mem_limit: 4gb

Key takeaway: Proper device node mapping is vital to avoid silent compute failures.

Full tutorial here: https://youtu.be/lYkZHXn28X4