Green Platform Engineering: Sustainable Kubernetes with Kyverno Policies
summary
Shows concrete results and how they were achieved: Kyverno mutation policies inject requests/limits, auto-configure HorizontalPodAutoscalers, swap large images, and generate policies create namespace quotas and limit ranges; background scans detect idle pods and orphan namespaces for remediation. Reported outcomes include a 40% reduction in cluster resource usage, utilization rising from ~55% to ~85%, and 25–30% estimated power savings; policies start in audit mode and graduate to strict enforcement.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Sustainable Kubernetes platforms
- 1:05Sustainability in platform engineering
- 3:16Kyverno for Kubernetes policies
- 5:03Automating resource efficiency
- 8:42Sustainability in developer workflows
- 10:32Measuring impact with KPIs
- 12:23Real-world examples and code
- 13:26Key takeaways
- 14:07Q&A
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