More Data Please: Hands on Green Cloud Experiments - Leonard Pahlke & Antonio Di Turi
Leonard Pahlke, Antonio Di Turi
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 · Session
In "More Data Please: Hands on Green Cloud Experiments," Leonard Pahlke and Antonio Di Turi from KubeCon EU delve into the often-overlooked environmental impact of cloud computing. The talk addresses the growing energy consumption of cloud infrastructure and the increasing abstraction that distances developers and operators from the underlying hardware and its power demands. The speakers highlight that while cloud technologies like Kubernetes offer unparalleled scalability, agility, and abstraction, they also come with significant hidden costs, particularly in terms of energy consumption and a diminishing understanding of infrastructure at its deepest layers.
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The talk "More Data Please: Hands on Green Cloud Experiments" presents a meticulously crafted, bare-metal experimental setup to quantify the often-hidden energy consumption of cloud-native workloads. By employing K3S on commodity hardware with NixOS for reproducibility, and using tools like Scaphandre, the speakers provide a crucial methodology for calibrating software-based energy metrics against real-world hardware baselines. This "bottom-up" approach demystifies cloud abstraction, offering actionable insights for developers and defenders to optimize workloads, security tools, and…