# Container Device Interface (CDI) — Set up a container builder with GPU support

> In this section, we will show you how to set up a container builder using NVIDIA GPUs.

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## Knowledge

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In this section, we will show you how to set up a container builder using NVIDIA GPUs. Since Buildx v0.22, when creating a new container builder, a GPU request is automatically added to the container builder if the host has GPU drivers installed in the kernel. This is similar to using --gpus=all with the docker run command.

Now let's create a container builder named gpubuilder using Buildx

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```console
$ docker buildx create --name gpubuilder --driver-opt "image=moby/buildkit:buildx-stable-1-gpu" --bootstrap
#1 [internal] booting buildkit
#1 pulling image moby/buildkit:buildx-stable-1-gpu
#1 pulling image moby/buildkit:buildx-stable-1-gpu 1.0s done
#1 creating container buildx_buildkit_gpubuilder0
#1 creating container buildx_buildkit_gpubuilder0 8.8s done
#1 DONE 9.8s
gpubuilder
```

&gt; [!NOTE] &gt; We made a specially crafted BuildKit image because the current BuildKit &gt; release image is based on Alpine that doesn't support NVIDIA drivers. The &gt; following image is based on Ubuntu and installs the NVIDIA client libraries &gt; and generates the CDI specification for your GPU in the container builder if &gt; a device is requested during a build.

Let's inspect this builder

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```console
$ docker buildx inspect gpubuilder
Name:          gpubuilder
Driver:        docker-container
Last Activity: 2025-07-10 08:18:09 +0000 UTC

Nodes:
Name:                  gpubuilder0
Endpoint:              unix:///var/run/docker.sock
Driver Options:        image="moby/buildkit:buildx-stable-1-gpu"
Status:                running
BuildKit daemon flags: --allow-insecure-entitlement=network.host
BuildKit version:      v0.26.2
Platforms:             linux/amd64, linux/amd64/v2, linux/amd64/v3, linux/arm64, linux/riscv64, linux/ppc64le, linux/s390x, linux/386, linux/arm/v7, linux/arm/v6
Labels:
 org.mobyproject.buildkit.worker.executor:         oci
 org.mobyproject.buildkit.worker.hostname:         d6aa9cbe8462
 org.mobyproject.buildkit.worker.network:          host
 org.mobyproject.buildkit.worker.oci.process-mode: sandbox
 org.mobyproject.buildkit.worker.selinux.enabled:  false
 org.mobyprojec
```

We can see nvidia.com/gpu vendor is detected as a device in the builder which means that drivers were detected. …

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