Posts in 2024
Milan in-person and virtual meetups wrap-up: a new green and inclusive community was born
November 18, 2024
In this blog post we’ll share some highlights and post-event reflections from this year’s Cloud Native Sustainability Week Milan meetups. For the second Italian edition of this event, we brought together developers, CEOs, advocates, graphic designers …
Event Wrap-Up: First Tokyo Local Meetup in CNCF Cloud Native Sustainability Week 2024
October 8, 2024
We are thrilled to share the highlights from organizing the first-time Tokyo Local Meetup hosted by Cloud Native Community Japan (CNCJ) during TAG ENV’s CNCF Cloud Native Sustainability Week 2024! This event brought together passionate …
Idle Power Matters: Kepler Metrics for Public Cloud Energy Efficiency
June 6, 2024
Idle power is the type of power where active compute is not occurring, and includes static power and that consumed by control plane processes. Idle power attribution is challenging in public cloud environment where computation is shared among …
CNCF Cloud Native Sustainability Week 2024 is underway and why YOU should care
May 30, 2024
Uniting Technology and Sustainability for a Brighter Future In our modern world, technology and sustainability can harmoniously coexist, creating a brighter future. Each of us can contribute to this by adopting innovative and eco-friendly practices. …
Green Reviews Working Group: Moving towards measuring the sustainability footprint of CNCF projects
March 15, 2024
Introducing the Green Reviews Working Group and its mission Cloud computing has a significant environmental impact that is rapidly growing due to the rising demand for cloud services, especially with resource-intensive applications like Generative …
Cloud Native Sustainability Week 2023 - putting sustainability on the community radar
January 31, 2024
For the first time, during the week 9th-15th October 2023, CNCF TAG Environmental Sustainability organized a global community event that was aimed to raise awareness for and share knowledge about the topic of cloud native sustainability – Cloud …
Posts in 2023
Reduce, Reuse, Rebase: Sustainable Containers with Buildpacks
December 19, 2023
Container builds can be very wasteful. Every operating system update, new dependency version, and toolchain upgrade results in copious amounts of energy used to build and rebuild our container images; often unnecessarily. It can be costly at scale, …
Getting started as a TAG Environmental Sustainability Contributor
November 7, 2023
If you are reading this blog it might be that you are interested in contributing to the cloud native sustainability domain. This blog will help you and guide you through the different possibilities that are available for you, like joining the The …
The road to Scaphandre v1.0 - Challenges and improvements to come on IT energy consumption evaluation
October 13, 2023
Community guest post as part of the cloud native sustainability week This blog post is about sharing what thoughts and insights we got during developing Scaphandre with our contributors, discussing with researchers and IT practitioners, regarding …
Towards Optimized Microservices Performance & Sustainability via Istio, Kepler and Smart Scheduling
October 12, 2023
Guest post as part of the cloud native sustainability week KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2023 took place in Shanghai from September 26 to 28, drawing significant attention to sustainability-related topics from the attendees. One …