What Does the Kubernetes Steering Committee Steer?

The Kubernetes Steering Committee is responsible for the governance of the Kubernetes project and ensuring its long-term sustainability. They work to encourage contributions from individuals and organizations, provide structure and leadership roles within the project, and advocate for the business value of open source.

• Encouraging contributions from individuals and organizations
• Providing structure and leadership roles within the project
• Advocating for the business value of open source
• Annual report process to highlight areas of help needed
• Challenges with burnout and bias towards employees of larger companies

The Steering Committee is an elected body that volunteers their time to represent the Kubernetes community. Burnout is a real issue, and the unpredictability of the workload can make it less approachable for those with other responsibilities. However, the Committee is always looking for new volunteers to contribute to the overall health of the project.

The Kubernetes Steering Committee is tasked with decision-making and oversight of the non-technical aspects of the Kubernetes project. This session will be broken into two parts: The first half will be an overview of what the committee is, and what it isn’t. What it’s tasked with, its importance, what it has accomplished to date and its top priorities for the year. The latter half will be focused on answering questions from Kubernetes project constituents and the wider Cloud Native community at large. If you’re curious or have a question about how one of the largest Open Source projects is governed, how that impacts you, or how you can leverage our learnings in your cloud-native projects' governance journeys, we encourage you to come stop by for a conversation!