Support for easy hardware acceleration config in values

[joaopedrocg27]

Hi!

I was able to make HW transcoding work by modifying the live yaml but I am not sure how this charts supports it.

[bo0tzz]

values.yaml:

machine-learning:
  image:
    tag: v1.118.2-openvino

[joaopedrocg27]

But this way it will not use the global tag declaration right? I have configured renovate to look at the global one

[bo0tzz]

Correct, there's no way to combine the two. It'd be nice to have hwaccel support in the chart so you can just set a type to use and it handles appending the right tag as well as setting the container resources etc. I'll rename this issue to be a FR for that.

[bo0tzz]

I don't know how any of the hardware accel mappings work in kubernetes, so if people who are currently using it can post their values here for the different methods that'd be a useful reference.

[joaopedrocg27]

Correct, there's no way to combine the two. It'd be nice to have hwaccel support in the chart so you can just set a type to use and it handles appending the right tag as well as setting the container resources etc. I'll rename this issue to be a FR for that.

That would be perfect! Thanks

[joaopedrocg27]

I don't know how any of the hardware accel mappings work in kubernetes, so if people who are currently using it can post their values here for the different methods that'd be a useful reference.

Just for some more context, my setup is based on node-feature-discovery with intel operator and gpu plugin. I am able to just give it a request of gpu.intel.com/i915: "1". It can even share the GPU along multiple applications, which you cannot do via mounting the dev as a volume. I can investigate how this works in the background but I think that for this some string manipulation in the tag name is enough!

 server:
    enabled: true
    securityContext: # not sure if it is needed
        privileged: true
    resources:
      requests:
        cpu: 300m
        memory: 300Mi
        gpu.intel.com/i915: "1"
      limits:
        cpu: 3
        memory: 3Gi
        gpu.intel.com/i915: "1"

If I do a lspci in the immich container I can see the GPU

[bo0tzz]

Adding it via a device plugin is definitely sufficient, no need for any manual dev mount stuff!