doca-container-deployment SKILL.md skillA
doca-container-deployment from nvidia/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add nvidia/skills/doca-container-deployment@git:20261022.a4cf47ePins git:20261022.a4cf47e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- nvidia/skills
- Path
skills/doca-container-deployment/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20261022.a4cf47e, committed Oct 22, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 17, 2026
- Size
- 11,083 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3,871
- License
- Apache-2.0
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…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# DOCA container deployment ## Examples - **"How do I run a DOCA service container on BlueField?"** — this is in scope after the setup recognize front door. Drop a documented pod spec; do not invent YAML or image tags. - **"The pod spec is in the directory but the pod never starts."** — walk the eight-layer taxonomy before letting kubelet restart-loop the pod. ## Instructions Follow Loading order below. Open the tasks companion for configure / run / debug. Open the capabilities companion for the kubelet-standalone contract. Do not open every companion file. **Where to start:** This skill is for *operating* the cross-cutting DOCA container-deployment runtime — the shared pattern every DOCA service on the BlueField uses to come up (kubelet standalone agent on the BlueField Arm watching a static-pod manifests directory; the operator drops a YAML pod spec into that directory; kubelet schedules the pod and runs the container). **If the developer has NOT yet decided container vs. bare-metal** (*"I just got a BlueField, what now?"*, *"my code is built, how do I run it?"*, *"how do I deploy this?"*), route them BACK to `doca-setup/SKILL.md` first. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add nvidia/skills/doca-container-deployment@sha256:9ac56d5e70109bc6The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261022.a4cf47e, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Jul 17, 2026 and Oct 22, 2026, about one every 32 days.
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| git:20261022.a4cf47e latest | 2026-10-22 | a4cf47e | 11,083 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261014.bbb601a | 2026-10-14 | bbb601a | 11,517 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260727.a5736e4 | 2026-07-27 | a5736e4 | 10,105 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260717.f64fa0e | 2026-07-17 | f64fa0e | 10,070 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (11083 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
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- pass: No link to a raw IP address
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Source
nvidia/skills · 3,871 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_t6ankrqrhjeju63s GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nvidia/skills/doca-container-deployment GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9ac56d5e70109bc67c985fbfd2697ac92615d8799496bfab55ac837463833269
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Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.