⬆️ Upgrade Helm release nvidia-device-plugin to v0.18.0

This MR contains the following updates:

Package	Update	Change
nvidia-device-plugin	minor	0.17.3 -> 0.18.0

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Release Notes

NVIDIA/k8s-device-plugin (nvidia-device-plugin)

v0.18.0

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• Rename getHealthCheckXids and clarify documentation
• Add support for explicitly enabling XIDs in health checks
• Deduplicate requested device IDs
• Check for nil before reading boolean config values
• Make gated modes (GDS, MOFED, GDRCOPY) optional in CDI
• Add support for setting gdrcopyEnabled
• Ignore errors getting device memory using NVML
• Ensure that directory volumes have Directory type
• Switch to plain golang image for builds
• Remove unneeded intermediate container
• Update CI definitions
• Switch to distroless golang image
• Update README.md with RuntimeClass
• Pass a single context throughout the device-plugin method call stack (#​1284)
• Remove internal logger in favour of klog (#​1277)
• Remove FAIL_ON_INIT_ERROR from static examples
• Detect blackwell architecture
• Updated .release:staging to stage device-plugin images in nvstaging
• Use MiB instead of MB for gpu-memory
• Ignore XID error 109
• Update README.md adjust set docker runtime default
• Remove nvidia.com/gpu.imex-domain label
• Fix containerd runc config error when creating a kind cluster
• Use stable nividia-container-toolkit repo when creating a kind cluster
• Switch to context package in go stdlib
• Raise a warning instead of an error if GPU mode labeler fails
• Add ada-lovelace architecture label for compute capability 8.9
• Ensure FAIL_ON_INIT_ERROR boolean env is quoted
• Honor fail-on-init-error when no resources are found
• Enable hostPID in the mps-control-daemon pod (#​1045)

v0.17.4

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What's Changed

• Bump slackapi/slack-github-action from 2.1.0 to 2.1.1 by @​dependabot[bot] in #​1317
• Bump github.com/NVIDIA/go-nvlib from 0.7.2 to 0.7.4 by @​dependabot[bot] in #​1346
• Bump golang from 1.23.11 to 1.23.12 in /deployments/devel by @​dependabot[bot] in #​1355
• Ensure that directory volumes have Directory type by @​elezar in #​1368
• Bump nvidia/cuda from 12.9.1-base-ubi9 to 13.0.0-base-ubi9 in /deployments/container by @​dependabot[bot] in #​1369
• Ignore errors getting device memory using NVML by @​elezar in #​1374
• Bump project version to v0.17.4 by @​cdesiniotis in #​1402
• [no-relnote] update ngc publishing logic for release pipelines by @​cdesiniotis in #​1406

Full Changelog: https://github.com/NVIDIA/k8s-device-plugin/compare/v0.17.3...v0.17.4

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