Cardamon

Purpose:: Estimates power consumption of software running on bare metal or Docker using the Teads estimation method

Website:: https://cardamon.io/
Source Code:: https://github.com/Root-Branch/cardamon

Created by:: Root & Branch Digital
Known by:: Adam Newman

Introduction

Measuring Websites End to End (Power and Carbon) | Green Software Brighton - YouTube

Installation

https://github.com/Root-Branch/cardamon?tab=readme-ov-file#installation

curl -fsSL https://cardamon.io/install.sh | bash

Methodology

There are two variants:

• to estimate the carbon footprint of websites is uses the SustainableWebDesign.org model in version 4
• to estimate the power consumption of applications that are running on the same device (bare metal, Docker or in future Kubernetes) it uses the Teads estimation model
  • CPU utilization is used as an input
  • Data for the power consumption curve of the CPU is retrieved from the Boavizta dataset