kube-green
An operator to reduce CO2 footprint of your clusters
kube-green is a simple k8s addon that automatically shuts down (some of) your resources when you don't need them.
When I was a student at Malardalen University in Sweden, I worked on the project kube-green. This project was suggested by a company called mia-platform (you can find more about them at https://mia-platform.eu/). In this project, I was part of the backend team, where I used a programming language called Golang, and worked with tools named Prometheus and Grafana.
This project was a part of my Distributed Software Development course, and it was a collaboration involving three different universities: Malardalen University, Politecnico di Milano, and the University of Zagreb.
How many of your dev/preview pods stay on during weekends? Or at night? It's a waste of resources! And money! But fear not, kube-green is here to the rescue.
How many CO2 produces yearly a pod?
By our assumption, it's about 11 Kg CO2eq per per year per pod (here the calculation).
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