Be the Change Our Planet Seeks: How YOU Can Contribute to Running Environment-Friendly Workloads on Kubernetes

The presentation discusses the importance of incorporating sustainability in software development and Kubernetes clusters.

• Sustainability should be an equally important criteria in software and platform development.
• There is room for improvement in the sustainability of Kubernetes clusters and underutilized compute resources.
• Awareness and consistency are key in promoting sustainability in tech.
• Shared responsibility model can be applied to sustainability in the supply chain.
• An anecdote about a project where customers challenged the team to incorporate sustainability in their systems.

The speaker shares a personal anecdote about how they started incorporating sustainability in their personal life and eventually brought it up in their workplace. They were challenged by their customers, including governmental and public sector clients, to consider the sustainability of their systems and supply chain. Eventually, sustainability became an equally important part of the business and overall tech roadmap strategy.

Climate change affects us all and it’s impact can be seen throughout all aspects of our life, including software engineering. Reducing carbon footprint and following sustainable software engineering principles is now a part of every software company’s goal, but do you know that YOU, as a developer or a platform engineer, have all the power to contribute to making your technical platform and this world a better, greener place? Kubernetes is one of the technologies that comes in multiple flavors, but it’s up to YOU to utilize it in a way that will lessen harmful impacts of global warming. During this session Kristina will shed light on how sustainable software engineering principles can be applied to Kubernetes and it’s workloads, as well as which eye-opening insights she has gained during her Kubernetes journey and what concrete actions you can take with you and apply further in your projects after the conference in order to make your Kubernetes workloads more eco-friendly.