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Tactic: Distribute pods

Tactic sort: Awesome Tactic
Type: Architectural Tactic or Software Practice
Category: resource-allocation
Tags: deployment 

Title

Distribute pods

Description

Nodes vary in properties such as energy source, specialized hardware, and workloads from time to time. […] We tested this tactic from the load-balancing perspective […] using the Kubernetes Scheduler to dynamically assign pods to nodes based on their resource requirements.

Participant

VU researchers; SIG employees

Related software artifact

Kubernetes

Context

pod anti-affinity

Software feature

load-balancing

Tactic intent

dynamic pod distribution

Target quality attribute

energy consumption; energy efficiency

Other related quality attributes

carbon efficiency; code maintability; response time; throughput

Measured impact

t-test

Source

On the Effectiveness of Microservices Tactics and Patterns to Reduce Energy Consumption: An Experimental Study on Trade-Offs (DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2501.14402)


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  • Contact person
  • Patricia Lago (VU Amsterdam)
  •  disc at vu.nl
  •  patricialago.nl

The Archive of Awesome and Dark Tactics (AADT) is an initiative of the Digital Sustainability Center (DiSC). It received funding from the VU Amsterdam Sustainability Institute, and is maintained by the S2 Group of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Initial development of the Archive of Awesome and Dark Tactics by Robin van der Wiel