Author: Swati Sehgal (Red Hat) The Device Plugin
framework was introduced in the Kubernetes v1.8 release as a vendor
independent framework to enable discovery, advertisement and
allocation of external devices without modifying core
Kubernetes.The feature graduated to Beta in v1.10.With the recent
release of Kubernetes v1.26, Device Manager is now generally
available (GA). Within the kubelet, the Device Manager facilitates
communication with device plugins using gRPC through Unix
sockets.Device Manager and Device plugins both act as gRPC servers
and clients by serving and connecting to the exposed gRPC services
respectively.Device