Posts in 2024
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 …
Embracing Edge Computing with Kepler - A Dive into Remote Monitoring, Centralized Dashboarding, and Visualization
October 11, 2023
Community guest post as part of the cloud native sustainability week In the ever-evolving landscape of technology, edge computing has emerged as a game-changer, enabling real-time data processing closer to the data source. Kepler, with its …
Reducing your environmental impact with the Linkerd service mesh
October 10, 2023
Guest post as part of the cloud native sustainability week In the complex world of service meshes, Linkerd is known for its simplicity. But Linkerd has also focused on having the smallest possible resource footprint since its inception. That makes it …
Welcome to the Cloud Native Sustainability Week 2023
October 9, 2023
Today, on the 9th of October, the CNCF Cloud Native Sustainability Week kicks off with a series of global events organized by the cloud native community, dedicated to highlighting the importance of environmental sustainability. It’s a week of …
CNCF Cloud Native Sustainability Week 2023
September 6, 2023
The CNCF Technical Advisory Group for Environmental Sustainability (TAG ENV) is excited to announce the Cloud Native Sustainability Week 2023 and YOU are invited! Cloud Native Sustainability Week is a global event organized by the CNCF community …