| # NVIDIA Container Toolkit |
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| [](https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/cloud-native/container-toolkit/overview.html) |
| [](https://nvidia.github.io/libnvidia-container) |
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| ## Introduction |
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| The NVIDIA Container Toolkit allows users to build and run GPU accelerated containers. The toolkit includes a container runtime [library](https://github.com/NVIDIA/libnvidia-container) and utilities to automatically configure containers to leverage NVIDIA GPUs. |
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| Product documentation including an architecture overview, platform support, and installation and usage guides can be found in the [documentation repository](https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/cloud-native/container-toolkit/overview.html). |
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| ## Getting Started |
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| **Make sure you have installed the [NVIDIA driver](https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/cloud-native/container-toolkit/install-guide.html#nvidia-drivers) for your Linux Distribution** |
| **Note that you do not need to install the CUDA Toolkit on the host system, but the NVIDIA driver needs to be installed** |
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| For instructions on getting started with the NVIDIA Container Toolkit, refer to the [installation guide](https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/cloud-native/container-toolkit/install-guide.html#installation-guide). |
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| ## Usage |
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| The [user guide](https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/cloud-native/container-toolkit/user-guide.html) provides information on the configuration and command line options available when running GPU containers with Docker. |
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| ## Issues and Contributing |
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| [Checkout the Contributing document!](CONTRIBUTING.md) |
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| * Please let us know by [filing a new issue](https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit/issues/new) |
| * You can contribute by creating a [merge request](https://gitlab.com/nvidia/container-toolkit/container-toolkit/-/merge_requests/new) to our public GitLab repository |
