diff --git a/slides/electricity.md b/slides/electricity.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..db959289 --- /dev/null +++ b/slides/electricity.md @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +class: pic + +![Electricity map](images/electricity-map.png) + +--- + +## Our VMs are low-carbon + +- The closest EC2 region to Berlin is eu-central-1 + + (Frankfurt; Germany electricity mix: wind, coal, nuclear, gas) + +- Instead, we deployed these VMs in eu-north-1 + + (Stockholm; Sweden electricity mix: hydro, nuclear, wind) + +- According to [Electricity Map](https://electricitymap.org/), they produce ~5x less carbon + + (at least Monday morning, when the VMs were deployed) + +- The latency was a bit higher; let me know if you saw any difference! + diff --git a/slides/kube-twodays.yml b/slides/kube-twodays.yml index 221ac0c9..7f947788 100644 --- a/slides/kube-twodays.yml +++ b/slides/kube-twodays.yml @@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ chapters: - k8s/healthchecks.md #- k8s/healthchecks-more.md - k8s/record.md + - electricity.md - - k8s/namespaces.md - k8s/ingress.md