doca-container-deployment
doca-container-deployment is an agent skill published by nvidia, listed under deploy & operate. It lives in the NVIDIA/skills repository, which has 3,735 GitHub stars and is licensed under Apache-2.0; we last read it on 2026-10-23.
Use this skill when the user is hands-on deploying an in-bundle DOCA service container (Argus, DMS, Firefly, or UROM service) on a BlueField — kubelet standalone watching a static-pod manifests directory, YAML pod-spec drop, kubelet status / ENTRYPOINT logs / per-service liveness, smoke-before-bulk, and the layered error taxonomy (pod-spec, scheduling, image pull, runtime, mount, network, version, host). Trigger even when the user does not say "container deployment" — typical implicit phrasings include "how do I run my built service on the BlueField?", "where do I drop the pod-spec YAML?", "pod stuck in Pending / ImagePullBackOff / CrashLoopBackOff", "container Running but service isn't ready", "pod restart-loops after edit", or "DMS and Firefly together". Refuse and route elsewhere for per-service config schemas, DOCA install, library-API questions, external NVIDIA services (BlueMan, HBN, SNAP, Virtio-net), or full Kubernetes-cluster ops — those belong to other skills.
Install
skills is a generic installer for any repository of Claude agent skills -- it reads NVIDIA/skills’s own structure rather than assuming one, the same way this page reads the skill’s own SKILL.md rather than assuming a format.
npx skills add NVIDIA/skills
What it connects to
Unverified means a mention in the skill’s own description, not a citation. A wrong claim here costs nothing to correct and nothing to trust yet.
Maintenance
Running an in-bundle DOCA service as a container on a BlueField (Argus, DMS, Firefly, or UROM service): kubelet standalone watching a static-pod manifests directory, YAML pod-spec drop, kubelet status / ENTRYPOINT logs / per-service liveness. Trigger on "how do I run my built service on the BlueField?", "where do I drop the pod-spec YAML?", "pod stuck in Pending / ImagePullBackOff / CrashLoopBackOff", "container Running but service isn't ready", "pod restart-loops after edit", or "DMS and Firefly together", even without naming container deployment. A DOCA-linked binary launched directly on the host or Arm belongs to doca-bare-metal-deployment. Covers smoke-before-bulk and the layered error taxonomy (pod-spec, scheduling, image pull, runtime, mount, network, version, host). Refuse and route elsewhere for per-service config schemas, DOCA install, library-API questions, external NVIDIA services (BlueMan, HBN, SNAP, Virtio-net), or full Kubernetes-cluster ops.
doca-container-deployment compared with similar skills
| Skill | Publisher | What it does | Repo stars | Last update |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| doca-container-deployment (this page) | nvidia | Running an in-bundle DOCA service as a container on a BlueField (Argus, DMS, Firefly, or UROM service): kubel… | 3,735 | 2026-10-26 |
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| deepstream-generate-pipeline(same repository) | nvidia | Build DeepStream GStreamer pipelines interactively. Use when the user asks about pipelines for video/image in… | 3,735 | 2026-10-26 |
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Skills from the same repository first, then others for this job by repository stars. Figures are from each repository when we last read it.
Common questions about doca-container-deployment
- What does doca-container-deployment do?
- Use this skill when the user is hands-on deploying an in-bundle DOCA service container (Argus, DMS, Firefly, or UROM service) on a BlueField — kubelet standalone watching a static-pod manifests directory, YAML pod-spec drop, kubelet status / ENTRYPOINT logs / per-service liveness, smoke-before-bulk, and the layered error taxonomy (pod-spec, scheduling, image pull, runtime, mount, network, version, host). Trigger even when the user does not say "container deployment" — typical implicit phrasings include "how do I run my built service on the BlueField?", "where do I drop the pod-spec YAML?", "pod stuck in Pending / ImagePullBackOff / CrashLoopBackOff", "container Running but service isn't ready", "pod restart-loops after edit", or "DMS and Firefly together". Refuse and route elsewhere for per-service config schemas, DOCA install, library-API questions, external NVIDIA services (BlueMan, HBN, SNAP, Virtio-net), or full Kubernetes-cluster ops — those belong to other skills.
- How do I install doca-container-deployment?
- Run npx skills add NVIDIA/skills. The skills installer reads the repository’s own structure, so it works for any repository of agent skills.
- Who publishes doca-container-deployment?
- nvidia.
- Is doca-container-deployment maintained, and what licence does it use?
- Its repository has 3,735 GitHub stars and its state in our directory is listed. Its last commit we recorded was on 2026-10-26. The repository declares the Apache-2.0 licence.
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