How Docker Gave My 'Unsupported' GPU a Second Life

Verachten.fr/2026/01/15/docker-uned-gpu-second-life/ Photo by Vanessa Frosali on Unsplash I became a Docker Captain in January 2026. After than a decade of using Docker, 37 images on Docker Hub, and over 2.1M downloads, I thought I knew most of what containers could do for me. Then my GPU vendor dropped for my hardware. The Vendor Giveth, The Vendor Taketh Away I run local LLMs on an older AMD Radeon GPU from the gfx906 family (Radeon VII). For years, this card has been my workhorse for inference workloads. It has enough VRAM to run a 32-billion parameter model, and it does the job well.