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This reference describes the container images the SUNK team builds and publishes, so you can choose the right image for your control plane, login, CPU, and GPU nodes. Use this page to understand what each image contains, which CUDA versions SUNK supports, and where to pull images from when you run SUNK inside or outside CoreWeave Kubernetes Service (CKS). The SUNK team builds several images: base images (controller, slurmd-cw-*) and extras images (controller-extras, slurmd-cw-*-extras) built on top of the base:
  • controller: Primarily for the control plane components, but you can also use it for CPU nodes.
  • controller-extras: Extras for use on login nodes or CPU nodes.
  • slurmd-cw-*: Images for GPU nodes.
  • slurmd-cw-*-extras: Extras images for GPU nodes.
The following table shows how each image relates to the others, including which base image each extras variant is built on.
ImageBased onImage type
controller (22.04)ubuntu:jammy-20240911.1Base
controller-extras (22.04)controller (22.04)Extra
slurmd-cw-cu122 (22.04)nccl-tests:12.2.2-devel-ubuntu22.04-nccl2.27.5-1-d5a135dBase
slurmd-cw-cu124 (22.04)nccl-tests:12.4.1-devel-ubuntu22.04-nccl2.27.5-1-d5a135dBase
slurmd-cw-cu128 (22.04)nccl-tests:12.8.1-devel-ubuntu22.04-nccl2.28.3-1-528fb68Base
slurmd-cw-cu129 (22.04)nccl-tests:12.9.1-devel-ubuntu22.04-nccl2.28.3-1-528fb68Base
slurmd-cw-cu130 (22.04)nccl-tests:13.0.1-devel-ubuntu22.04-nccl2.28.3-1-528fb68Base
slurmd-cw-cu122-extras (22.04)slurmd-cw-cu122 (22.04)Extra
slurmd-cw-cu124-extras (22.04)slurmd-cw-cu124 (22.04)Extra
slurmd-cw-cu128-extras (22.04)slurmd-cw-cu128 (22.04)Extra
slurmd-cw-cu129-extras (22.04)slurmd-cw-cu129 (22.04)Extra
slurmd-cw-cu130-extras (22.04)slurmd-cw-cu130 (22.04)Extra
SUNK supports up to two Ubuntu LTS versions and several CUDA versions.
  • slurm-cw-122 (CUDA 12.2) is deprecated as of SUNK v6.5.0 and is scheduled for removal in the next major version release.
  • slurm-cw-124 (CUDA 12.4) is deprecated as of SUNK v6.9.0 and is scheduled for removal in the next major version release.
ubuntu-20.04 variants are no longer built after September 3, 2025 (CUDA 12.x nccl2.27.5-1-d5a135d are the last available versions).
Other packages in the images that aren’t listed in the following sections might be dependencies for the listed packages and might change.

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Select an image

This section explains where to pull SUNK images from and how the image field resolves a registry and name.
Image registryAvailability
ghcr.io/coreweave/slurm-containersPublic
images.coreweave.com/cluster-images/coreweave/slurm-containersInternal to CKS
All image fields support a name field to specify the desired image name:
  • If you don’t specify a repository, SUNK uses the default registry plus the image name.
  • If you specify a repository, it overrides the value used. SUNK uses neither the name nor the default registry.
For example, an image named controller, as shown in the following example, uses the controller image from the default registry, ghcr.io/coreweave/slurm-containers/controller. 
  image:
    name: controller
    repository:

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External SUNK users

If you run SUNK outside CKS, you must point the Helm chart at the public registry instead of the internal CKS one. To do this, change the global.cks value in the slurm Helm chart as follows: global.cks.enabled=false The default value, global.cks.enabled=true, pulls images from the internal CKS registry, which isn’t available externally.

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Base images

Base images provide the foundation for SUNK’s control plane and node images. This section describes their purpose and the packages they include.

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Purpose of base images

Base images serve as the foundation for the Slurm control plane components as well as the login and CPU-only slurmd pods.

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Main packages with pinned versions

  • Slurm: Workload manager.
  • s6-overlay: Process supervisor and service manager.
  • Pyxis: Plugin for Slurm that enables containerized jobs.
  • enroot: Container runtime.
  • kubectl: Command-line tool for interacting with Kubernetes clusters.
NVSHMEM and GDRCopy supportIf you need an image with NVSHMEM and GDRCopy support, you can request to use ncore-image v2.10.1. You must apply a patch to ibgda in your container and contact Support to get access to this new image. See the changelog entry for full details. For implementation instructions, see NVSHMEM and GDRCopy Support.

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Main packages from repositories

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Extra images

Extra images extend the base images with additional user-facing tools and utilities. Use them when you want a broader set of end-user tools on login or CPU nodes without building your own image. This section lists the packages added on top of the base images.

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Additional packages with pinned versions

  • Conda: Package, dependency, and environment management for multiple languages.
  • Micromamba: Lightweight alternative to Conda.

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Additional packages from repositories

Last modified on May 27, 2026