# Intel® Gaudi® Base Operator for Kubernetes

Instead of installing Intel Gaudi software stack (drivers, container runtime, device plugin and etc.) manually, Intel Habana provides the [Intel® Gaudi® Base Operator for Kubernetes](https://docs.habana.ai/en/latest/Orchestration/Gaudi_Kubernetes/Intel_Gaudi_Base_Operator_for_Kubernetes.html) to ease the task.

Intel® Gaudi® Base Operator for Kubernetes automates the management of all necessary Intel Gaudi software components on a Kubernetes cluster. These include drivers, Kubernetes device plugin, container runtime, feature discovery, and monitoring tools.

[Here](https://docs.habana.ai/en/latest/Support_Matrix/Support_Matrix.html#support-matrix) is the support matrix for Kubernetes versions.

For more detailded information and steps to proceed, please refer to the [Intel® Gaudi® Base Operator for Kubernetes](https://docs.habana.ai/en/latest/Orchestration/Gaudi_Kubernetes/Intel_Gaudi_Base_Operator_for_Kubernetes.html) manual page.