Seeding Environmental Sustainability Into the Cloud Native Community
summary
CNCF Environmental Sustainability WG exists to define measurable interventions: it pushes the software carbon intensity spec, maps where energy is used in a Kubernetes stack, and targets concrete fixes like smaller container images, scale-to-zero, higher-density scheduling and Arm/Graviton nodes. The group asks for energy and CO2-per-kWh APIs from data centers, links with Open Compute and Green Software Foundation, and highlights hard numbers — global data center energy ~2% now with models up to 12% by 2040 and scope 3 ≈80% of a service’s emissions — so work focuses on tooling and actionable metrics.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 2:02Terminology
- 7:18The Problem
- 11:04Main Activities
- 13:08Better together
- 15:22Cloud Native Perspective
- 19:37Challenges & Solutions
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