Assessing carbon footprint and promoting green operations

Assessing the carbon footprint and promoting green operations in cloud environments are critical steps toward achieving sustainability in IT operations. Tools such as kube-green [4] and Armada [5] offer innovative approaches to managing and reducing the environmental impact of cloud computing.

Assessing carbon footprint with kube-green

The kube-green tool focuses on optimizing resource usage in a way that correlates directly with energy consumption, thereby minimizing the environmental impact. Here’s how it contributes to green operations:

• Workload scheduling: The kube-green tool can intelligently schedule workloads to run during times when the energy grid is supplied by renewable sources, thus promoting the use of green energy
• Resource optimization: It helps in fine-tuning the allocation of resources, ensuring that applications use only what they need and reducing the overall energy consumption of the...