Releases

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Current Release

🚀 v0.2.0 — Full-Stack FinGreenOps Platform

Latest Stable

Release Date: 2025

This major release transforms GreenKube from a CLI tool into a full-stack monitoring platform with a web dashboard, REST API, and comprehensive resource tracking.

✨ New Features

Dashboard & API:

• Modern SvelteKit web dashboard with real-time charts (ECharts)
• FastAPI REST API with full OpenAPI documentation
• Interactive per-pod metrics table with sort, search, and export
• Node inventory page with capacity visualization
• Recommendations dashboard with savings estimates
• Settings page with system health monitoring

Multi-Resource Monitoring:

• Memory usage tracking (bytes consumed)
• Network I/O monitoring (bytes received/transmitted)
• Disk I/O tracking (bytes read/written)
• Ephemeral storage monitoring (requests and usage)
• Pod restart count tracking
• GPU usage monitoring (millicores, when available)

Enhanced Recommendations:

• Autoscaling candidate detection (CV and spike analysis)
• Carbon-aware scheduling suggestions
• Idle namespace cleanup recommendations
• Improved zombie detection with energy thresholds
• Configurable thresholds via Helm values

Infrastructure:

• PostgreSQL as default storage backend (StatefulSet in Helm)
• Elasticsearch support for large-scale deployments
• Service auto-discovery for Prometheus and OpenCost
• Multi-architecture Docker images (amd64 + arm64)
• Post-install hook for database initialization
• Comprehensive RBAC (ServiceAccount, ClusterRole)

Developer Experience:

• 293+ unit tests
• Pre-commit hooks (Ruff formatting + linting)
• Gitleaks secret scanning in CI
• GitHub Actions CI/CD (lint, test, build, push, Helm publish)

📦 Downloads

Asset	Link
Docker Image	docker pull greenkube/greenkube:0.2.0
Helm Chart	helm repo add greenkube https://GreenKubeCloud.github.io/GreenKube
Source Code	GitHub Release

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🌱 v0.1.0 — Initial Release

Release Date: 2024

The first public release of GreenKube, establishing the core carbon tracking capabilities.

✨ Features

• CLI-based carbon reporting for Kubernetes workloads
• Prometheus integration for CPU metrics collection
• Energy estimation using Cloud Carbon Footprint methodology
• Carbon emission calculation with configurable grid intensity
• Support for AWS, GCP, Azure cloud providers
• SQLite storage backend
• CSV and JSON export
• Helm chart for Kubernetes deployment
• Basic zombie pod and rightsizing recommendations

📦 Downloads

Asset	Link
Source Code	GitHub Release

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Upgrade Guide

From v0.1.x to v0.2.0

v0.2.0 introduces PostgreSQL as the default storage backend. If you were using SQLite, plan a data migration or start fresh.

1. Update the Helm repository:

   helm repo update

2. Review your values.yaml — New configuration options are available for:

   • Database backend selection
   • API server settings
   • Recommendation thresholds
   • Prometheus query tuning

3. Upgrade the release:

   helm upgrade greenkube greenkube/greenkube \
     -f my-values.yaml \
     -n greenkube

4. Verify the upgrade:

   kubectl get pods -n greenkube
   kubectl port-forward svc/greenkube-api 8000:8000 -n greenkube

Versioning

GreenKube follows Semantic Versioning:

• MAJOR (x.0.0) — Breaking changes
• MINOR (0.x.0) — New features, backwards compatible
• PATCH (0.0.x) — Bug fixes, backwards compatible

Release Channels

Channel	Description	Docker Tag
Stable	Tested releases	greenkube/greenkube:0.2.0
Latest	Most recent stable	greenkube/greenkube:latest