The Steering Committee is a 7 member body, overseeing the governance of the Kubernetes project. See the Steering Committee Charter for specific committee structure information.

The Kubernetes Project is granted one of the two Developer Representative seats on the CNCF Governing Board. This seat may be held by current and former Kubernetes Steering Members and is elected to a two year term.

There are various cases when the Steering Committee may require interactions with CNCF, so a dedicated person from the CNCF Staff acts a primary communication point between Steering and CNCF.

For more details on the relationship between Steering and CNCF, please see a dedicated document Relationship with the CNCF.

• Public Slack: #steering-committee
• Mailing List: [email protected] (archive)
• Private Mailing List: [email protected]
• Open Community Issues/PRs
• GitHub Teams:
  • @kubernetes/steering-committee - General Discussion

The Steering Committee often deals with sensitive topics and has several private slack channels to discuss and coordinate with our project representatives.

• #steering-private - Private channel for Steering Members
• #steering-cncf-rep-private - Private channel between Steering and the current CNCF Representative.
• #steering-gb-rep-private - Private channel between Steering and the current Kubernetes CNCF Governing Board Representative.

We have two meetings every month.

• We hold an open and recorded online meeting where the community is welcome to join the first Wednesday at 8am PT of every month if there is quorum.
• We have a closed and not recorded online meeting every 3rd Wednesday of the month at 8am PT if there is quorum.

• Recordings of our meetings are publicly available on youtube
• Meeting notes are available to members of the kubernetes-dev mailing list

• Charter
• Backlog

The CNCF ServiceDesk policy for Kubernetes community is defined at ServiceDesk.

The steering committee delegates ownership of various Kubernetes community accounts like GitHub, domain names, etc to SIGs and sub-projects. However, the committee also reserves top-level account access for service governance in some cases.