3 steps towards a greener IT landscape

Creators:: Bjorn van der Laan
Source:: https://dev.to/bjornvdlaan/3-steps-towards-a-greener-it-landscape-15fe

Type:: #reference/simple

Notes

1. Software
2. Runtime
3. Hardware

Software

1. Reduce the size of network packets by minifying the web assets or removing unused CSS definitions.
2. Reduce the distance those packets travel by introducing a CDN (Content Delivery Network).
3. Reduce the number of API calls needed to render the page.

Runtime

• turn off dev and test clusters on weekends (can be automated with kube-green)
• scale your Kubernetes workloads based on relevant demand metrics (KEDA)
• use a scheduler that assign pods to nodes based on the carbon intensity

Hardware

• reduce the Embodied carbon of your used infrastructure
• aim for high utilization of your servers