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How to setup docker with NVIDIA GPU support on Ubuntu 22

This took a bit of a search for me, so here it is in case it’s useful:

Terminal window
cd /tmp/
wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu2204/x86_64/cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y cuda-drivers-545 nvidia-container-toolkit
sudo nvidia-ctk runtime configure --runtime=docker
sudo systemctl restart docker

Then you should be able to run the following docker container with gpu enabled:

Terminal window
docker run --rm --runtime=nvidia --gpus all ubuntu nvidia-smi

And get the following output:

Fri Dec 8 14:49:32 2023
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 545.23.08 Driver Version: 545.23.08 CUDA Version: 12.3 |
|-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|=========================================+======================+======================|
| 0 Tesla T4 On | 00000000:00:1E.0 Off | 0 |
| N/A 29C P0 25W / 70W | 5MiB / 15360MiB | 0% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=======================================================================================|
| No running processes found |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+