The NVIDIA Container Toolkit allows users to build and run GPU accelerated Docker containers. The toolkit includes a container runtime [library](https://github.com/NVIDIA/libnvidia-container) and utilities to automatically configure containers to leverage NVIDIA GPUs.
Product documentation including an architecture overview, platform support, installation and usage guides can be found in the [documentation repository](https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/cloud-native/container-toolkit/overview.html).
**Make sure you have installed the [NVIDIA driver](https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-docker/wiki/Frequently-Asked-Questions#how-do-i-install-the-nvidia-driver) and Docker engine for your Linux distribution**
**Note that you do not need to install the CUDA Toolkit on the host system, but the NVIDIA driver needs to be installed**
For instructions on getting started with the NVIDIA Container Toolkit, refer to the [installation guide](https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/cloud-native/container-toolkit/install-guide.html#docker).
The [user guide](https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/cloud-native/container-toolkit/user-guide.html) provides information on the configuration and command line options available when running GPU containers with Docker.
