KyvernoCon Europe 2026
as the organisers put it
KyvernoCon Europe 2026 has officially wrapped! Thank you to all the attendees who joined us. Watch keynotes and all breakout sessions on the CNCF YouTube Channel. Review session slides from speakers…
who it's for
platform engineers, kubernetes operators, site reliability engineers, platform architects, developer experience engineers, cloud security engineers, devops engineers
topics
Kyverno CEL policies; mutating policies at admission; Kyverno SDK and unified CLI; OpenTelemetry observability for Kyverno; Kyverno and Flux GitOps integration; Kyverno with Backstage reporting; image signing with cosign; policy as code for compliance; auto-remediation and self-healing; background scanning and OpenReport; Kyverno NCP analyzer and policy-author agent; community governance and project graduation
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome + Opening Remarks | Cortney Nickerson, Shuting Zhao | 08m |
Kyverno announces it is a graduated project with over 9,000 GitHub stars, almost 500 contributors and a claimed 3.4 billion image pulls; policy engine now uses… | ||
| Policy & GitOps Unite! Kyverno and Flux Save Cluster City | Cortney Nickerson, Leigh Capili | 30m |
Flux + Kyverno demonstration shows a concrete D2 reference architecture that bootstraps Flux operator from OCI artifacts, signs charts/images with cosign, and… | ||
| Self-Healing Clusters: When Kyverno Writes Its Own Rules | Johan Heimar Prieto Benavides, Oscar Castillo | 26m |
A platform harvests Kyverno audit data and drift signals, detects repeated problems (more than five occurrences, with escalation thresholds around 20–50), and… | ||
| Compliance as Code Meets Developer Portals: Kyverno + Backstage in... | Gaurika Poplai | 10m |
A live integration shows Kyverno + Policy Reporter + Backstage mapping cluster policy reports to service entities via labels and Backstage annotations… | ||
| Beyond Admission: How Kyverno Extends Native Policies for Full Lifecycle Management | Erik Godding Boye, Mariam Fahmy | 28m |
Kyverno extends Kubernetes admission by adding MutatingPolicy support that can mutate at admission and also mutate existing resources in-cluster, a CLI that… | ||
| Full Observability for Kyverno With Observability-as-Code | Imma Valls | 23m |
A local kind cluster uses Argo CD to reconcile Kyverno, Prometheus, Tempo and Grafana; Kyverno emits OpenTelemetry spans so rule execution shows per-span… | ||
| Kyverno Mutating Policies: Shifting Platform Logic Into the Control Plane | Rodrigo Fior Kuntzer | 24m |
Kyverno mutating policies move environment-specific logic into the control plane, using CEL expressions, the Kyverno CLI, and Chainsaw tests to implement and… | ||
| Know Your Policy Level: A Lightning Introduction | Danielle Cook, Simon Forster | 09m |
10-minute lightning overview of the Cloud Native Maturity Model’s Policy track that maps five concrete stages from checklist-driven ops to automated… | ||
| Beyond Match & Pattern: Mastering Kyverno with CEL | Koray Oksay | 28m |
Kyverno ships CEL as a GA-capable expression engine that evaluates expressions, queries the Kubernetes API, and returns booleans at admission time; about half… | ||
| Closing Remarks | Cortney Nickerson, Shuting Zhao | 03m |
Kyverno announces an open Kyverno steering committee for community-led governance now that the project has graduated, and launches a Policy Bites podcast with… | ||
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