Kyverno officially graduated as a CNCF project on March 16, 2026.
From joining the CNCF Sandbox in 2020, to Incubating in 2022, to Graduated today, the journey reflects what good open source looks like: real-world adoption, strong governance, and a community that kept showing up.
Kyverno lets platform and security teams enforce policies across Kubernetes environments using plain YAML, with no new language to learn. Validate, mutate, generate, and clean up resources, all through a native Kubernetes experience. Since incubation, the project has seen nearly 10x growth in downloads and gained over 2,000 GitHub stars.
Congratulations to Nirmata , the maintainers, and every contributor who made this happen.
If policy as code is still on your backlog, graduation is a good reason to move it up.
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