🌿 Saving the Planet One Pod at a Time: Automating Sleep in Kubernetes with kube-green

Let’s face it—most of us leave our dev clusters running 24/7.
Test workloads idle overnight. Staging pods sip cloud credits through the weekend.
It’s easy to forget that “always on” often means “always wasting.”

In this post, I’ll walk you through a hands-on demo using kube-green, an open-source controller that lets you automatically scale down Kubernetes Deployments after hours—and bring them back when it’s time to work.

✅ No cron jobs
✅ No custom scripts
✅ Just clean, scheduled resource savings

Whether you’re trying to cut cloud costs, reduce carbon usage, or build more responsible DevOps pipelines—this tool makes it dead simple.

Let’s put your pods (and your wallet) to sleep—on purpose.

👉 Read the full guide on: https://technostress.blog/kube-green-kubernetes-auto-sleep-pods/