About Us
Our Mission
The Data on Kubernetes Community (DoKC) was founded in 2020 to advance the use of Kubernetes for stateful and data workloads, and unite the ecosystem around data on Kubernetes (DoK).
DoKC community programs and events are made possible thanks to the generosity of our sponsors who believe the industry needs a place to collaborate to solve the challenges of working with data on Kubernetes.
Who Runs DoKC?
DoKC is a community-led, vendor-neutral community run by the practitioners who run data on Kubernetes every day. In 2026, the community’s assets and stewardship were transferred to the community itself, with Sergey Pronin acting as steward during the transition.
Sergey Pronin and Kate Obiidykhata lead the community as its interim core team until the first steering committee is seated at KubeCon EU 2027. The governance model is built so that no single company can steer DoK:
- A five-seat steering committee: two end users, two sponsors and one maintainer, with one seat per company.
- A Sponsor Council that advises but does not vote.
- Rules money can’t buy around: no paid talk slots at DoK Day, no paid questions in the State of DoK report, and no paid Operator Scorecard results.
Founding Sponsors
The Data on Kubernetes Community owes a big thanks to our founding sponsors. They will always be listed here for empowering us to get the community started in our earliest days.
