[BRAINSTORMING] Ideas the TAG could focus on in 2024 + Kick off Roadmap planning #277
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Context: Proposal: As there are with LEED, there would be varying levels of SEED certification based on how sustainable you are as a company. Determining the metrics for this would be a challenge, which leads me to the next section: Challenges:
Thanks! I really welcome feedback. I'm new to the group, so I apologize if this has been discussed before. |
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As requested by @leonardpahlke : Cross-referencing the idea from #283 (comment) to benchmark the reduced network and maybe compute cost from using Buildpack container rebases than having full docker rebuilds in a reference CNCF project that has migrated to the technology. Referencing a post regarding the general approach suggested here: #273 |
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Hi all, This is somewhat related to Arne's comment, but more generally it'd be good to have a topic on the efficiency of deployments, including, but not limited to, KPIs such as:
An advantage here is that it'd be "easy" to measure/compare efficiency via the metrics above. I'm relatively new to this group too, so any feedback is really appreciated. Full disclosure: I have a horse in this race in the form of unikernels (and more specifically the OSS Unikraft project), highly specialized VMs that can reduce the metrics above significantly (e.g., an OCI-compliant NGINX image of just 1.25MBs, cold boots of a few millis, memory consumption of a few MBs, etc). |
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Is there a plan to create a sustainability card in the main CNCF Landscape? It would be cool to showcase a catalog of all the tools that help measuring and/or reducing the carbon footprint of Cloud Native workloads, basically a condensed version of this landscape document in the style of the serverless one |
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Context: Proposal:
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Context: Briefly:
Proposal: p.s. I will update the English version once I got it, and the original link seems not available for open today. Hence I am sorry for a 3rd party web edition... |
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In 2024, it would help tremendously to continue gathering and documenting user stories for tools and patterns discussed in TAG ENV. This is less of a concrete initiative and more of a general reflection of what we should continue to focus on in our TAG strategy. We are already doing a lot of this! I would like to highlight what we should continue to do / do more of - general things that help with adoption. Let’s continue to encourage this open forum where people can share how to implement solutions on environmental sustainability using cloud-native tooling! :) What?Let's gather user stories and collect data on carbon savings from the CNCF ecosystem, the various TAG community members, End User group, GSF, other TAGs, etc. We are doing this in various initiatives such as the landscape, Cloud Native Sustainability Week, around KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, etc (apologies if I am missing other important milestones here!). Specifically, it would be great to continue gathering examples of:
Going forward, we could make a call for content that showcases user stories at various stages:
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Have Kubetrain as official project for the TAG, with a WG and all? It's a pilot project for KubeCon Paris 2024 but we might want to extend it to KubeCon NA 2024 as well with San Francisco - Salt Lake route and a couple of other routes. If these two pilots succeed it could be possible making it recurrent every year, hence it should (imho) be an official TAG project. CC: @AndreaGiardini |
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Adding here my Slack post: Hello people, |
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I am exploring projects around food sustainability. Let’s say that I will try to implement an architecture diagram for farmers maybe to take advantage of it, I will use speaking sessions on events to push myself to develop the idea. My outcome will bring like diagram of project ideas that Farmers can implement. @leonardpahlke well, looking to give some env sustainability architectures. |
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I'm from the OpenTelemetry project. There seems to be interest in engaging us and I agree that telemetry is key to sustainability, but we need to have some dialogue and education between the two groups. It might also be good for someone to engage tag-observability as a whole. If you are further along with sustainability work in another project like Prometheus, we can possibly set up ways to ingest their signals as a quick option. Sustainability is a question with a large cross-cutting scope and it's important that we actually have a thoughtful approach, it's not about one or two added metrics. To add sustainability to our spec is not just about defining a list of metrics, we'd need to make some decisions within the technical committee & the spec working group about where sustainability metrics would sit in our spec and also define how traces and logs and other signals would be handled, then there is project management to enable our working groups to implement the metrics once they are in spec, there is documentation, and finally we need to educate OpenTelemetry adopters so the metrics get used. This is a lot of work for contributors who are already stretched thin and we need help from your group if we're going to implement it. In order to make this a priority we'd need to recruit and train some humans who can be dedicated to shepherding this along through the project. Here are some specific ideas for collaboration: My end user working group which organizes events can commit to hosting a speaker or panel from tag-sustainability if you provide them to frame the problem space. We can also commit to hosting ad-hoc follow up discussion sessions between TAG-Sustainability and OpenTelemetry until we decide whether to charter a working group or move forward in another way. I can also commit to using our communication channels through the OpenTelemetry comms working group and asking observability experts to post about ongoing work, in order to try to locate people within the observability community who are interested in the problem. Austin Parker and Ed Vielmetti are exploring a collaboration on how we might use existing OpenTelemetry to do sustainability work using the Equinix data center and Honeycomb, which will help us kick off education and awareness efforts with something we can implement right away. OpenTelemetry has a lounge space on the KubeCon EU show floor and we can also do programming together in person there, and while the Observability Day program is being set right now we may be able to squeeze in a lightning talk or something. Can TAG-Sustainability commit to hosting a talk from OpenTelemetry about the basics of how to collaborate with us and the basics of OpenTelemetry, so that you can help us resource this kind of work appropriately? And can your comms working group commit to using your channels to help us find contributors, and to cross-promote the discussions I'm outlining? |
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Expanding on the Newsletter Idea for Our TAG: I had the idea of integrating a newsletter into the website, especially considering the impactful work the TAG does within the open-source community. This newsletter could serve as a dynamic platform to align with the mission of focusing on environmental sustainability in the cloud-native landscape. Newsletter Theme and Focus: Sharing Educational Content: Project Spotlights: Community Engagement like surveys, or polling: Event Announcements: Metrics and Impact Measurement: I believe that by implementing a newsletter with these tailored features, we can effectively leverage this communication channel to raise awareness, educate our community, showcase projects, and actively contribute to positive environmental change within the cloud-native landscape. Relevant discussion: https://cloud-native.slack.com/archives/C03F270PDU6/p1702403586261379 |
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👋🏼 I'd like to pick up the work on best practices for running sustainable Kubernetes clusters. To quote from the original issue:
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There are sooo many ideas out there what the TAG ENV could work on. A few of them are already codified in issues (maturity model, cloud native sustainability learning path, kubernetes sustainability whitepaper, etc.) or even completed or in the work (green project reviews, cloud native sustainability week, landscape document, etc.).
Let's collect ideas we all have to push environmental sustainability in the TAG and then decide together which ideas we like to work on in 2024.
Notes: I would like to make sure that the roadmap captures technical and non-technical topics to enable as many potential contributors as possible. With WG Comms and WG Green Reviews, we already have two projects locked in. Assessing the capacity is a question we need to ask ourselves, ad-hoc 1x Chair : 1x project, WG are separate, if we find more leads could extend the capacity.
Anyone can comment here and share their thoughts! 😁🙌
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