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doca-bare-metal-deployment

Running a DOCA-linked binary directly on the hardware, with no container or kubelet: on host x86 with a BlueField NIC over PCIe, or bare-metal on BlueField Arm.

Skill by NVIDIA <doca@nvidia.com>

IndexedApache-2.0
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Running a DOCA-linked binary directly on the hardware, with no container or kubelet: on host x86 with a BlueField NIC over PCIe, or bare-metal on BlueField Arm. Use for launching and supervising it (direct, tmux, systemd), and when it "exits 1 right after launch", "systemd keeps restarting it", reports "no matching device on the BF", or the BlueField itself is unhealthy: "bfb-install exited 0 but DPU is dead", "ping 192.168.100.2 works but ssh fails", "host PFs aren't showing netdevs". Service containers under kubelet belong to doca-container-deployment. Covers PCI/NUMA/CPU/IRQ binding, co-tenant isolation (cgroup-v2/netns/numactl), a seven-layer error taxonomy, platform lifecycle (BFB install, RShim/TMFIFO, host PF rebind, post-BFB recovery) and a six-state BlueField lifecycle classifier. Destructive firmware burn / mlxconfig set requires explicit confirmation via doca-hardware-safety; library APIs, env prep, and build use other skills.

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What this skill can do and what it asks for, from its SKILL.md. Checked Oct 25, 2026.

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Skill name
doca-bare-metal-deployment
Description
Running a DOCA-linked binary directly on the hardware, with no container or kubelet: on host x86 with a BlueField NIC over PCIe, or bare-metal on BlueField Arm. Use for launching and supervising it (direct, tmux, systemd), and when it "exits 1 right after launch", "systemd keeps restarting it", reports "no matching device on the BF", or the BlueField itself is unhealthy: "bfb-install exited 0 but DPU is dead", "ping 192.168.100.2 works but ssh fails", "host PFs aren't showing netdevs". Service containers under kubelet belong to doca-container-deployment. Covers PCI/NUMA/CPU/IRQ binding, co-tenant isolation (cgroup-v2/netns/numactl), a seven-layer error taxonomy, platform lifecycle (BFB install, RShim/TMFIFO, host PF rebind, post-BFB recovery) and a six-state BlueField lifecycle classifier. Destructive firmware burn / mlxconfig set requires explicit confirmation via doca-hardware-safety; library APIs, env prep, and build use other skills.
License
Apache-2.0
Compatibility
No DOCA install required to read this skill (it is an overlay loaded against any DOCA artifact skill); the validation steps within this skill require a live DOCA install at /opt/mellanox/doca on a host or BlueField with a built DOCA-linked binary.
Metadata
kind: library · author: NVIDIA <doca@nvidia.com>
Instructions
219 lines in SKILL.md · view on GitHub

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License
Apache-2.0
Repository
github.com/api-evangelist/nvidia
First seen
Oct 24, 2026
Last checked
Oct 24, 2026
Source
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doca-bare-metal-deployment skill. Agent Mart. https://agentmart.dev/skills/api-evangelist-doca-bare-metal-deployment (last updated 2026-10-24)