Niki Manoledaki
Staff Software Engineer
Barcelona, Spain
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Niki Manoledaki is a Staff Software Engineer currently on the Platform Engineering team at Grafana Labs where she monitors carbon and cost at scale. She is a cloud sustainability advocate, keynote speaker, and community organizer. She contributes to open source software as a maintainer of the CNCF project Kepler and a Tech Lead of the Operational Resilience Technical Advisory Group (TAG). She is recognized as a CNCF Ambassador and Green Software Champion.
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Debunking Myths About Environmental Sustainability In The Cloud, Building A Greener CNCF Landscape
Environmental sustainability is an increasingly important topic in general and in the cloud native and open source realm as well. However, with the steadily growing attention to the topic, misconceptions and doubts appear regarding the actual impact of proposed actions that are meant to promote environmental sustainability in the cloud.
We would like to put our myth-busting hats on to address and debunk some of these misconceptions. We will provide an objective, evidence-based understanding of the real implications some actions may have on environmental sustainability in the cloud-native context.
Join the Cloud Native Sustainability Mythbusters Squad, bring your open mind, discover facts, challenge assumptions, and contribute to a more informed and greener community.
Monitoring Power at Planet Scale with Kepler
Kepler is a CNCF Sandbox project that monitors power usage and attributes it to Pods and other resources in Kubernetes clusters. Adoption is growing: it is used by leading Linux Foundation Project Sylva's telco carriers to optimize CNFs on bare metal, and by CERN to optimize the environmental impact of their MLOps against their sustainability KPIs. Yet while Kepler took a step forward in accuracy during the rewrite, we had to take a big step backward for the virtual machine use case, since we lost the trained model server (hint: we're solving this). What challenges and opportunities lie ahead for the project?
Monitoring Power at Planet Scale With Kepler
Kepler is a CNCF Sandbox project that monitors power usage and attributes it to Pods and other resources in Kubernetes clusters. Adoption is growing: it is used by leading Linux Foundation Project Sylva's telco carriers to optimize CNFs on bare metal, and by CERN to optimize the environmental impact of their MLOps against their sustainability KPIs. Yet while Kepler took a step forward in accuracy during the rewrite, we had to take a big step backward for the virtual machine use case, since we lost the trained model server (hint: we're solving this). What challenges and opportunities lie ahead for the project?
TAG Operational Resilience: Shaping the Future Through Initiatives
As cloud-native architectures evolve, "reliability" means managing everything from microservice cascades to GenAI token costs and energy efficiency. The CNCF Operational Resilience TAG is at the center of this evolution, defining the standards for how the industry builds and operates sustainable, resilient systems.
Join this session with the TAG leads to get a first look at our latest initiatives and future roadmap. We will share what we are up to and how you can join us and help in championing the initiatives.
Project Lightning Talk + ContribFest + Maintainer Track: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2026 Sessionize Event Upcoming
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026 Sessionize Event Upcoming
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