Chip Childers is leaving his leadership position at the Cloud Foundry Foundation (CFF) at the end of this month. Childers has been involved with CFF since its launch in 2015, and spent the last year as executive director.

Childers’ departure comes shortly after the CFF developed a Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) in July. The TOC’s purpose is to oversee the direction and delivery of technical aspects of Cloud Foundry projects and support the ability of the user community to produce open-source work in a transparent and impartial way.

Cloud Foundry’s TOC consists of VMware’s Eric Malm and David Stevenson; SAP’s Jan von Loewenstein and Stephan Merker; and Lee Porte of Gov.uk, who serves as the TOC chairperson.

Childers believes that with the TOC formation the Cloud Foundry community “has reached a point where it is largely self-managing, so there will not be an executive director in the near term,” he wrote in a blog post announcing his departure. He added that the Linux Foundation also offers support that meets the current needs of the Cloud Foundry community. 

As CFF marches on without Childers, the community will continue to focus on two main goals: “continuing active development of the classic architecture of the platform and continuing to explore the powerful combination of ‘cf push’ and Kubernetes,” Childers explained.

Childers said he will return to “shipping products and services in the commercial sector,” though he did not share specific details. “I will miss this community, but I know the Cloud Foundry project is in good hands going forward,” Childers wrote.