CNCF Sustainability Survey

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1. Which cloud native sustainability practices do you already follow in your software projects?

Cluster management - choosing which data center to schedule on according to environmental factors ( region’s Marginal Emissions Rate, Power Usage Effectiveness, etc.)

Power management/Kubernetes scheduler plugin - scheduling effectively according to workload, availability, and urgency of workload

Node tuning/pod scaling - optimizing resources to handle workload specifications while minimizing resource consumption

Other (please specify)

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2. What challenges have you experienced/do you foresee in achieving sustainability?

Defining targets

Lack of skills and experience

Lack of awareness among those building and operating our infrastructure

Complexity of our infrastructure such as containers and Kubernetes

Presence of legacy and technical debt in our environment

Lack of mature tools in monitoring and analysis

Dependance on cloud-service provider-specific tools

Absence of best practices for development, operations, monitoring, reporting and analysis

Other (please specify)

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3. Do you attempt to measure your energy usage per service?

Yes

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4. Do you attempt to measure your CO2 footprint per service?

Yes

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5. If yes, how do you measure your CO2 footprint per service?

Own calculations based on money spend per resource ($)

Own calculations based on energy consumption

Own calculations based on network and data transmission

Using cloud provider tools (e.g. the AWS Carbon footprint tool)

Using cloud native tools like Kepler or other

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6. Do you see Kubernetes and the required tools as overhead or enablers to measure the energy consumption of your system?

Overhead

Enablers

Unsure

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7. How do you react to the following statements? (Tend to Agree, Tend to Disagree).
The industry is moving rapidly toward addressing the sustainability of energy consumption of IT resources.

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8. How do you react to the following statements? (Tend to Agree, Tend to Disagree).
Everyone seems to care about sustainability of IT resources but there’s no good way to attack it from where I sit.

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9. How do you react to the following statement? (Tend to Agree, Tend to Disagree).
Sustainability takes a backseat to performance and speed when deadlines need to be met.

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10. How do you react to the following statement? (Tend to Agree, Tend to Disagree).
The cloud native industry lacks leadership in IT sustainability.

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11. How do you react to the following statement? (Tend to Agree, Tend to Disagree).
I have monitoring tools at my disposal to track the power consumption of the machines and software that I use.

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12. How do you react to the following statement? (Tend to Agree, Tend to Disagree).
I can take informed action regarding the machines I use such as being able to identify components, applications or processes responsible for the major part of energy consumption

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13. How important will power estimation models be in addition to primary data measures to get a better read on use and take informed action?

Very important

Important

Somewhat important

Not important

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14. Are you using the cloud as part of a corporate sustainability initiative?

Yes

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15. If you answered “no” to the above question, are you planning a corporate sustainability program that includes cloud during the:

Next six months

Six months - one year

Two - five years

Longer

Not at all

N/A

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16. Are you using the following to measure your total carbon emissions - select all that apply:

Greenhouse Gas (GHG) protocol

Not measuring our carbon emissions

Other (please provide details)

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17. Where do you believe responsibility for sustainability in cloud native rests:

The cloud service provider

My business team, who evaluates and selects providers

My IT team, who builds and operates infrastructure and workloads

All - it’s a shared responsibility

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18. How would you define “sustainability” in cloud native - select all that apply:

Reduced consumption of resources - such as electricity for power and water for cooling

Consumption of renewable electricity

Use of carbon-neutral practices and materials during construction of my cloud service provider’s data center

Reduction in emissions produced through activity of cloud data center and/or your workloads

Reduction of indirect emissions - through performance of data center activities such as back up

Efficient use of resources such as hardware, compute, storage and networking

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19. What factors do you use to evaluate the sustainability of your cloud service provider’s data center? Select all that apply:

Cooling

Sourcing of power - use of renewables.

Production and disposal of waste

Type of materials and practices used during construction of data center

Third party certifications on efficiency

PUE and WUE

None - we don’t do this

Other (please provide details)

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20. How do you believe your IT team can best achieve sustainability in the cloud - select all that apply:

In the design of our software

At the data layer - access to, use and storage of data

Efficiency of code

Monitoring and analysis of resource consumption

Operational best practices such as rightsizing nodes, turning off orphans, auto scaling, use of existing or shared capacity

Automation of procedures founded on best practices

Reduce consumption of dedicated resources/use shared resources

Minimize the consumption of resources

Other (please specify)

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21. Which of the following can potentially help achieve a more sustainable cloud?

Infrastructure as code

Kubernetes

Containerization

Serverless

Use, or otherwise, of different regions and zones

Other (please specify)

CNCF Sustainability Survey

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* 1. Which cloud native sustainability practices do you already follow in your software projects?

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* 2. What challenges have you experienced/do you foresee in achieving sustainability?

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* 3. Do you attempt to measure your energy usage per service?

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* 4. Do you attempt to measure your CO2 footprint per service?

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* 5. If yes, how do you measure your CO2 footprint per service?

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* 6. Do you see Kubernetes and the required tools as overhead or enablers to measure the energy consumption of your system?

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* 7. How do you react to the following statements? (Tend to Agree, Tend to Disagree).The industry is moving rapidly toward addressing the sustainability of energy consumption of IT resources.

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* 8. How do you react to the following statements? (Tend to Agree, Tend to Disagree). Everyone seems to care about sustainability of IT resources but there’s no good way to attack it from where I sit.

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* 9. How do you react to the following statement? (Tend to Agree, Tend to Disagree).Sustainability takes a backseat to performance and speed when deadlines need to be met.

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* 10. How do you react to the following statement? (Tend to Agree, Tend to Disagree).The cloud native industry lacks leadership in IT sustainability.

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* 11. How do you react to the following statement? (Tend to Agree, Tend to Disagree).I have monitoring tools at my disposal to track the power consumption of the machines and software that I use.

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* 12. How do you react to the following statement? (Tend to Agree, Tend to Disagree).I can take informed action regarding the machines I use such as being able to identify components, applications or processes responsible for the major part of energy consumption

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* 13. How important will power estimation models be in addition to primary data measures to get a better read on use and take informed action?

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* 14. Are you using the cloud as part of a corporate sustainability initiative?

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* 15. If you answered “no” to the above question, are you planning a corporate sustainability program that includes cloud during the:

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* 16. Are you using the following to measure your total carbon emissions - select all that apply:

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* 17. Where do you believe responsibility for sustainability in cloud native rests:

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* 18. How would you define “sustainability” in cloud native - select all that apply:

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* 19. What factors do you use to evaluate the sustainability of your cloud service provider’s data center? Select all that apply:

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* 20. How do you believe your IT team can best achieve sustainability in the cloud - select all that apply:

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* 21. Which of the following can potentially help achieve a more sustainable cloud?

1. Which cloud native sustainability practices do you already follow in your software projects?

2. What challenges have you experienced/do you foresee in achieving sustainability?

3. Do you attempt to measure your energy usage per service?

4. Do you attempt to measure your CO2 footprint per service?

5. If yes, how do you measure your CO2 footprint per service?

6. Do you see Kubernetes and the required tools as overhead or enablers to measure the energy consumption of your system?

7. How do you react to the following statements? (Tend to Agree, Tend to Disagree).
The industry is moving rapidly toward addressing the sustainability of energy consumption of IT resources.

8. How do you react to the following statements? (Tend to Agree, Tend to Disagree).
Everyone seems to care about sustainability of IT resources but there’s no good way to attack it from where I sit.

9. How do you react to the following statement? (Tend to Agree, Tend to Disagree).
Sustainability takes a backseat to performance and speed when deadlines need to be met.

10. How do you react to the following statement? (Tend to Agree, Tend to Disagree).
The cloud native industry lacks leadership in IT sustainability.

11. How do you react to the following statement? (Tend to Agree, Tend to Disagree).
I have monitoring tools at my disposal to track the power consumption of the machines and software that I use.

12. How do you react to the following statement? (Tend to Agree, Tend to Disagree).
I can take informed action regarding the machines I use such as being able to identify components, applications or processes responsible for the major part of energy consumption

13. How important will power estimation models be in addition to primary data measures to get a better read on use and take informed action?

14. Are you using the cloud as part of a corporate sustainability initiative?

15. If you answered “no” to the above question, are you planning a corporate sustainability program that includes cloud during the:

16. Are you using the following to measure your total carbon emissions - select all that apply:

17. Where do you believe responsibility for sustainability in cloud native rests:

18. How would you define “sustainability” in cloud native - select all that apply:

19. What factors do you use to evaluate the sustainability of your cloud service provider’s data center? Select all that apply:

20. How do you believe your IT team can best achieve sustainability in the cloud - select all that apply:

21. Which of the following can potentially help achieve a more sustainable cloud?