CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC)

The CNCF TOC is the technical governing body of the CNCF. It admits and oversees all projects in the CNCF and has a mandate to facilitate driving neutral consensus for:

• defining and maintaining the technical vision and principles for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation,
• approving new projects within the scope of the CNCF set by the Governing Board (GB), creating a conceptual architecture for the projects, aligning projects, removing or archiving projects,
• accepting feedback from end user technical advisory board and map to projects,
• aligning interfaces to components under management (code reference implementations before standardizing), and defining common practices to be implemented across CNCF projects, if any.

TOC Technical Vision

The technical direction of the ecosystem is problem-centric. We encourage and support our projects to solve problems faced by adopters, to build the right ecosystem for innovation and embrace changes in the broader technical landscape. To exercise and increase the expertise within the technical community to compose solutions that stand the test of time.

TOC Members

• Ahmed Bebars (term: 2 years - start date: 5/12/2026 - 5/12/2028) [EndUser-appointed]
• Alex Chircop (term: 2 years - start date: 3/4/2025 - 3/4/2027) [TOC-appointed]
• Brandt Keller (term: 2 years - start date: 5/12/2026 - 5/12/2028) [TOC-appointed]
• Chad Beaudin (term: 2 years - start date: 3/4/2025 - 3/4/2027) [EndUser-appointed]
• Faseela K (term: 2 years - start date: 3/4/2025 - 3/4/2027) [GB-appointed]
• Jeremy Rickard (term: 2 years - start date: 3/4/2025 - 3/4/2027) [GB-appointed]
• Joseph Sandoval (term: 2 years - start date: 5/12/2026 - 5/12/2028) [GB-appointed]
• Karena Angell (term: 2 years - start date: 3/4/2025 - 3/4/2027) [GB-appointed][TOC Chair]
• Kevin Wang (term: 2 years - start date: 5/12/2026 - 5/12/2028) [GB-appointed]
• Mario Fahlandt (term: 2 years - start date: 5/12/2026 - 5/12/2028) [GB-appointed]
• Mauricio Salatino (term: 2 years - start date: 5/12/2026 - 5/12/2028) [Maintainer-appointed]

TOC Alternates

• Katie Gamanji (term: 1 year - start date: 5/12/2026 - 5/12/2027) [GB-appointed][alternate]
• Ricardo Aravena (term: 1 year - start date: 5/12/2026 - 5/12/2027) [TOC-appointed][alternate]

Note: TOC Alternates are non-voting members of the TOC

Election schedule

TAG / TCG Liaisons

• Karena Angell (@angellk) — TAG Security and Compliance, TOC Project Reviews Subproject
• Brandt Keller (@brandtkeller) — TAG Infrastructure, TOC Project Reviews Subproject, TCG Platform Engineering
• Faseela K (@kfaseela) — TAG Infrastructure, TAG Operational Resilience, TCG Environmental Sustainability
• Alex Chircop (@chira001) — TAG Workloads Foundation, TAG Infrastructure, TCG Platform Engineering
• Kevin Wang (@kevin-wangzefeng) — TOC Project Reviews Subproject, TCG Artificial Intelligence, TCG Environmental Sustainability
• Mauricio Salatino (@salaboy) — TAG Developer Experience, TAG Operational Resilience, TCG Artificial Intelligence
• Mario Fahlandt (@mfahlandt) — TAG Security and Compliance, TAG Operational Resilience, TCG Software Supply Chain Security
• Chad Beaudin (@chadbeaudin) — TAG Operational Resilience, TAG Workloads Foundation
• Ahmed Bebars (@abebars) — TAG Developer Experience, TOC Project Reviews Subproject
• Jeremy Rickard (@jeremyrickard) — TAG Workloads Foundation, TAG Operational Resilience
• Joseph Sandoval (@jrsapi) — TAG Developer Experience, TAG Workloads Foundation

Projects

See the current CNCF projects and a description of project maturity levels (Sandbox, Incubating, Graduated).

The CNCF provides a list of services for incubating and graduated projects hosted in the foundation. A subset of these services is also available for Sandbox level projects.

Do you want to contribute to a project? We have a guide to get you started.

If you would like to know more about the project lifecycle we use, we have outlined the process. If you have any questions or don't know where to start, please open an issue.

Meeting Time

The TOC meets on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of every month at 8AM PT (USA Pacific Time; Convert to local time zone).

Here is a calendar for all public CNCF events. This calendar is also available on the CNCF Website Meetings can be joined directly form the calendar.

Meeting Agenda and Minutes

• Meeting Agenda and Minutes
• Archive (2018.10~2024.08) of Meeting Working Doc. This includes minutes from previous meetings.
• Archive (2016.02~2019.06) of Meeting agenda and presentations.
• Archive (2016.04~2018.11) of community presentations
• CNCF TOC Playlist on YouTube

Mailing List

Public mailing list for the CNCF TOC: cncf-toc@lists.cncf.io

The public mailing archive: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc

Details to join this public mailing list: https://lists.cncf.io/mailman/listinfo/cncf-toc

In case you need to reach the CNCF TOC on sensitive issues, please email us at: cncf-private-toc@lists.cncf.io

Slack

Public CNCF TOC channel: Join the CNCF slack and we are reachable at #toc.

Voting

This is our voting policy. Only TOC members can cast binding votes. (+1 Binding)

Technical Advisory Groups and TOC SubProjects

Technical Advisory Groups

• TAG Developer Experience
• TAG Infrastructure
• TAG Operational Resilience
• TAG Security and Compliance
• TAG Workloads Foundation

TOC SubProjects

• Contributor Strategy and Advocacy SubProject
• Mentoring SubProject
• Project Reviews SubProject

Technical Advisory Groups - Archived

The TOC has approved the formation of TAGs. The following Technical Advisory Groups have been archived:

• TAG-Security
• TAG-Storage
• TAG-App-Delivery
• TAG-Network
• TAG-Runtime
• TAG Contributor Strategy
• TAG Observability
• TAG Environmental Sustainability

These Technical Advisory Groups have been spun down and replaced with new Technical Advisory Groups and TOC SubProjects, listed above.

Updating TAG or SubProject README files

To modify the README files for individual TAGs or TOC SubProjects, please do not edit them directly. Instead, the source of truth for these files is the tags.yaml file. To understand the process for updating these READMEs by modifying tags.yaml, please refer to the Updating TOC TAG and SubProject README Files document.