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+# NVIDIA device plugin for Kubernetes
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+The `gh-pages` branch is automatically updated by GitHub actions.
+To manually update the Helm package repository use the scripts on the `main` or `release-*` branches as described in the [RELEASE.md](https://github.com/NVIDIA/k8s-device-plugin/blob/main/RELEASE.md)
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-#!/usr/bin/env bash
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-helm repo index stable --url https://nvidia.github.io/k8s-device-plugin/stable
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-cp -f stable/index.yaml index.yaml
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