# Set Up DRA in a Cluster — Create DeviceClasses

> You can define categories of devices that your application operators can claim in workloads by creating driver providers might also instruct you to create DeviceClasses during driver installation.

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You can define categories of devices that your application operators can claim in workloads by creating driver providers might also instruct you to create DeviceClasses during driver installation.

The ResourceSlices that your driver publishes contain information about the devices that the driver manages, such as capacity, metadata, and attributes. You can use to filter for properties in your DeviceClasses, which can make finding devices easier for your workload operators.

To find the device properties that you can select in DeviceClasses by using CEL expressions, get the specification of a ResourceSlice

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
    kubectl get resourceslice &lt;resourceslice-name&gt; -o yaml
```

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```yaml
    apiVersion: resource.k8s.io/v1
    kind: ResourceSlice
    # lines omitted for clarity
    spec:
      devices:
      - attributes:
          type:
            string: gpu
        capacity:
          memory:
            value: 64Gi
        name: gpu-0
      - attributes:
          type:
            string: gpu
        capacity:
          memory:
            value: 64Gi
        name: gpu-1
      driver: driver.example.com
      nodeName: cluster-1-node-1
    # lines omitted for clarity
```

Review the following example DeviceClass manifest, which selects any device that's managed by the driver.example.com device driver

Create the DeviceClass in your cluster

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

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