Name

Sustainable DRA Driver Power Profile & Telemetry Conformance Specification and Automation

Short description

Define a vendor-neutral power and energy profile and telemetry specification and automated conformance tests for sustainable Kubernetes DRA drivers.

Responsible group

TAG Operational Resilience

Does the initiative belong to a subproject?

Yes

Subproject name

No response

Primary contact

@sunya-ch

Additional contacts

@kfaseela
@nikimanoledaki
@didiViking

Initiative description

Define a vendor-neutral Sustainable DRA Driver Power Profile & Telemetry Conformance Specification for Kubernetes DRA drivers, establishing standardized power-profile metadata, workload-attributed power and energy telemetry, and conformance requirements. The initiative will also develop an automated conformance test harness to validate driver implementations against the specification and enable interoperable sustainability telemetry across heterogeneous devices.

Related initiative:

• [Initiative]: Cloud Native AI Sustainability Papers #1675

While #1675 identifies sustainability challenges and opportunities in areas such as energy tracking, power capping, and efficient resource scheduling, this initiative focuses on translating those recommendations into a concrete, vendor-neutral conformance specification for Kubernetes DRA drivers. It defines standardized power-profile metadata, workload-attributed power and energy telemetry, and automated conformance validation, enabling practical adoption of the sustainability practices identified in #1675 across heterogeneous accelerator and device drivers.

Deliverable(s) or exit criteria

Final Draft of the Sustainable DRA Driver Power Profile & Telemetry Conformance Specification on TAG Publications and Automated Conformance Test Harness

Tracking document for meeting and progress

https://notes.cncf.io/s/wpHQOoU8l