doca-container-deployment
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Running an in-bundle DOCA service as a container on a BlueField (Argus, DMS, Firefly, or UROM service): kubelet standalone watching a static-pod manifests directory, YAML pod-spec drop, kubelet status / ENTRYPOINT logs / per-service liveness. Trigger on "how do I run my built service on the BlueField?", "where do I drop the pod-spec YAML?", "pod stuck in Pending / ImagePullBackOff / CrashLoopBackOff", "container Running but service isn't ready", "pod restart-loops after edit", or "DMS and Firefly together", even without naming container deployment. A DOCA-linked binary launched directly on the host or Arm belongs to doca-bare-metal-deployment. Covers smoke-before-bulk and the layered error taxonomy (pod-spec, scheduling, image pull, runtime, mount, network, version, host). Refuse and route elsewhere for per-service config schemas, DOCA install, library-API questions, external NVIDIA services (BlueMan, HBN, SNAP, Virtio-net), or full Kubernetes-cluster ops.
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