Kubernetes Emissions Insights: Turning Cloud-Native Green (Without Recycling Pods)

What’s the carbon footprint of your Kubernetes workloads? In this session, we’ll introduce the Kubernetes Emissions Insights Tool, an open source project we’re building to estimate the environmental impact of workloads running on Kubernetes clusters—without resorting to recycling pods.

Built with open source technologies like Kepler for energy consumption monitoring, Electricity Maps for real-time carbon intensity data, and Boavizta for embodied emissions, this tool delivers a clear view of what your infrastructure is costing the planet.

We’ll also share insights from our work on Green Reviews, a CNCF project under the Environmental Sustainability TAG, which aims to estimate and track the emissions of CNCF projects. Together, these initiatives demonstrate how open source tools can empower developers to make informed, greener choices.

Whether you’re managing sprawling Kubernetes clusters or just curious about sustainability, this talk will show how open source innovation is turning the cloud a little greener—and maybe even make it fun along the way.