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Best DevOps Tools That Are Good for the Planet

Best DevOps Tools That Are Good for the Planet

Govardhana M K
September 27, 2024

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Hey — It's Govardhana MK 👋

After 40+ tech-packed editions, I chose for a change to talk about ‘DevOps tools that are good for the planet.’ Come join the Friday vibes (good ones) with me!

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Best DevOps Tools That Are Good for the Planet

Does Cloud Cost the Earth ?

This question isn’t fanatic.

In fact, as DARK MATTER rightly says, 'Every choice in the cloud comes with a price — both money and environmental impact. Shouldn't we be thinking if our decisions are costing businesses and the planet more than they should? Is it the technology or how we're using it?

I recently experienced the CLOUDED II documentary, produced by Dark Matter—a technology research organisation that uncovers the truth about technology culture.

The motive for this topic comes from that watch.

CLOUDED II trailer 👇️

Most of the data we store isn’t necessary — petabytes of social media content, scanned documents, and redundant backups.

We’re all guilty of storing more data than we realize, contributing to growing carbon emissions.

The cloud isn’t inherently green — many data centers still rely on nonrenewable energy. To fix inefficiencies, we must modernize applications.

It isn't that far. This July, the world experienced the hottest day in recorded history, according to NASA.

These effects—from extreme weather to record-breaking heat—remind us of the urgent need for action.

My TOP 5 Tools:

1. Scaphandre

⭐: 1,500+

Scaphandre is a metrology agent designed to track power consumption and energy metrics, allowing companies to measure and send this data to monitoring or analysis tools easily. Like a CI/CD energy dashboard sample here.

2. Kepler

⭐: 1,115+

Kepler (Kubernetes-based Efficient Power Level Exporter) uses eBPF to probe performance counters and other system stats, use ML models to estimate workload energy consumption based on these stats, and exports them as Prometheus metrics.

3. Codecarbon

⭐: 1100+

A Python package that estimates your hardware electricity power consumption (GPU + CPU + RAM) and apply to it the carbon intensity of the region where the computing is done.

4. Kube Green

⭐: 1000+

Kube Green is a simple k8s addon that automatically shuts down your resources when you don't need them.

5. Cloud Carbon Footprint

⭐: 890+

Cloud Carbon Footprint is a tool to estimate energy use (kilowatt-hours) and carbon emissions (metric tons CO2e) from public cloud usage.

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