Sustainability Chronicles: Innovate Through Green Technology
summary
Kubernetes-focused tools are used to measure and act on real emissions: Kepler DaemonSet using eBPF probes CPU and kernel counters, exports joules → kWh to Prometheus and multiplies by hardcoded emission factors (coal, petroleum, natural gas from US EIA 2021) so you get container- and namespace-level CO2 estimates in Grafana. The karbon aware operator plugs into K (and providers or forecasts like MyMo/electricityMap/Wattime) to scale replicas (example: 15→1) based on grams CO2e/kWh. CNCF counts: 113 sandbox, 37 incubated, 26 graduated, 7 archived. GreenOps ties this to FinOps practices.
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chapters (23)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:03Cloud sustainability matters
- 3:30CNCF project maturity
- 4:30Tech sector climate role
- 5:56Cloud providers net zero
- 7:00GreenOps impact
- 8:03Four phases strategy
- 9:28Measuring Kubernetes emissions
- 10:10Introducing Kepler
- 11:12Kepler carbon emissions
- 14:21Introducing KEDA
- 15:48KEDA architecture use cases
- 16:54Carbon aware operator
- 17:37Configuring carbon scaling
- 19:23Community sustainability
- 20:25CNCF TAGs green reviews
- 21:28Education upskilling
- 22:31Diversifying leadership
- 23:12Summary call to action
- 24:40Q&A Kepler metrics
- 26:45Q&A hardware virtualization
- 27:27Q&A cluster efficiency
- 28:55Q&A sustainable languages AI
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