Cloud Foundry Foundation

The Governing Board handles the budget, membership, outreach and policy. Its voting members are one representative from each Platinum member, one Silver representative the board picks from the Silver members’ nominees, and the chair of the Technical Oversight Committee (TOC). No company or group of related companies may have more than one vote: if the TOC chair works for a company that already appoints a director, the chair sits on the board without a vote, which was the case in October 2026, when the chair worked at SAP. Members must also belong to the Linux Foundation, which holds the money and takes 9% of the first $1 million raised each year and 6% above that.

The TOC runs the technical side: it sets the overall direction and roadmap, resolves disputes, coordinates releases, and approves the creation and dissolution of projects and working groups. It has five members serving staggered two-year terms, and no more than two should come from the same company. Anyone who has contributed in the past twelve months can vote in its elections, with people who have at least 25 measurable contributions added to the voter list automatically, and ballots are ranked using the Schulze method. In October 2026 its members came from SAP (two, including the chair), Broadcom (two) and the US government’s Cloud.gov.

Larger changes are proposed as RFCs in the public cloudfoundry/community repository, discussed in the open and accepted by the TOC; by October 2026 the repository held 74 of them. The working groups own the code: each has execution and technical leads and a list of GitHub repositories, from App Runtime Platform and Foundational Infrastructure, which includes BOSH, to Paketo, Concourse and documentation.

The RFC process also retires work. RFC 0060, started on July 10, 2026, proposed archiving the Cloud Foundry on Kubernetes working group and its Korifi project because the community had lost interest: no Slack traffic, no meeting attendees, no new issues and no known production users, with the three remaining maintainers, all at SAP, out of capacity. It was accepted, and Korifi was archived on September 15, 2026.