# Access DRA Device Metadata — Access device metadata with a ResourceClaim

> When you use a directly referenced ResourceClaim to allocate devices, the device metadata files appear inside the container at Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```text /var/run/kubernetes.io/dra-device-attributes/resourceclaims/<claimName>/<requestName>/<driverName

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## Knowledge

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When you use a directly referenced ResourceClaim to allocate devices, the device metadata files appear inside the container at

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```text
/var/run/kubernetes.io/dra-device-attributes/resourceclaims/&lt;claimName&gt;/&lt;requestName&gt;/&lt;driverName&gt;-metadata.json
```

Review the following example manifest

This manifest creates a ResourceClaim named gpu-claim that requests a device from the gpu.example.com DeviceClass, and a Pod that reads the device metadata.

Create the ResourceClaim and Pod

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
   kubectl apply -f https://k8s.io/examples/dra/dra-device-metadata-pod.yaml
```

After the Pod is running, view the container logs to see the metadata

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
   kubectl logs gpu-metadata-reader
```

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```text
   === DRA device metadata ===
   /var/run/kubernetes.io/dra-device-attributes/resourceclaims/gpu-claim/gpu/gpu.example.com-metadata.json
   {
     "kind": "DeviceMetadata",
     "apiVersion": "metadata.resource.k8s.io/v1alpha1",
     ...
   }
```

To inspect the full metadata file, exec into the container

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
   kubectl exec gpu-metadata-reader -- \
     cat /var/run/kubernetes.io/dra-device-attributes/resourceclaims/gpu-claim/gpu/gpu.example.com-metadata.json
```

The output is a JSON object containing device attributes like the model, driver version, and device UUID. See metadata schema for details on the JSON structure.

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