# Slinky — Slurm and Kubernetes

## Overview

Slinky™ is SchedMD's set of projects to enable interoperability between Slurm and Kubernetes.

### Links

The SlinkyProject on GitHub hosts the associated Slinky components:

- The Slurm Operator provides for management and auto-scaling of Slurm clusters running as Kubernetes pods: slurm-operator
- Slurm REST client Go library, shared by the Slinky projects: slurm-client
- Slurm Prometheus exporter, used to gather metrics for HPA (Horizontal Pod Autoscaling) and Grafana: slurm-exporter
- Docker files for the associated container images: containers

Last modified 21 March 2025