Kyverno 1.17 is a landmark release that marks the stabilization of our next-generation Common Expression Language (CEL) policy engine. While 1.16 introduced the “CEL-first” vision in beta, 1.17 promotes these capabilities to v1, offering a high-performance,…
Kyverno at ContribFest: Community, collaboration, and the power of open source in action
A few weeks ago at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in Atlanta, the Kyverno community had the opportunity to participate in ContribFest, one of the most energizing and community-driven initiatives in the cloud-native ecosystem. While ContribFest…
Optimizing Kyverno CLI performance: My LFX mentorship journey
Why Open Source? While exploring CNCF Projects in early 2025, I stumbled upon Kyverno and its community impressed me. The mentors and community members encouraged me to become a part of LFX Mentorship and motivated me…
Announcing Kyverno release 1.16
Kyverno 1.16 delivers major advancements in policy as code for Kubernetes, centered on a new generation of CEL-based policies now available in beta with a clear path to GA. This release introduces partial support for namespaced…
Kyverno vs Kubernetes policies: How Kyverno complements and completes Kubernetes policy types
Originally posted on Nirmata.com on October 1, 2025 How Kyverno extends and integrates with Kubernetes policies With the addition of ValidatingAdmissionPolicy and MutatingAdmissionPolicy in Kubernetes, do you still need Kyverno? This post answers the question by…
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 Co-Located Event Deep Dive: KyvernoCon
This is the very first KyvernoCon! While Kyverno has been part of the CNCF since November 2020, and has had a strong presence at past KubeCon events through policy as code focused talks, maintainer sessions, and…
Announcing Kyverno Release 1.15!
Kyverno 1.15 makes Kubernetes policy management more powerful, extensible, and user-friendly. We are thrilled to announce the release of Kyverno 1.15.0, continuing our mission to make policy management in Kubernetes environments more modular, performant, and user-friendly….
Automating EKS CIS compliance with Kyverno and KubeBench
A practical approach to implementing CIS security controls using CNCF cloud native tools. Introduction: The Challenge of EKS Compliance at Scale Maintaining CIS Benchmarks compliance for Amazon EKS across multiple clusters is a common challenge in…
Announcing Kyverno Release 1.14!
TL;DR We are excited to announce the release of Kyverno 1.14.0, marking a significant milestone in our journey to make policy management in Kubernetes more modular, streamlined, and powerful. This release introduces two new policy types…
Automating NIS2 Compliance in Kubernetes with Kyverno: A Practical Guide
2025 is the year when NIS2 measures will start to bite. Is your platform team ready for the challenge? This post gives a brief overview of NIS2 in the context of platform engineering. Then it gives…