Optimizing Kyverno CLI performance: My LFX mentorship journey

Why Open Source? What is Kyverno? Introduction to LFX Mentorship Selection process and onboarding My mentorship work Problem statement Analysis and solution Results and impact Reflections and key learnings References Posted on December 10, 2025 by Abhishek Dhiman, Kyverno Contributor CNCF projects highlighted in this post 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 to help new people start their open source journey. What started as a curiosity quickly became a meaningful journey into open source contribution. Kyverno is a cloud-native policy engine that runs in a Kubernetes cluster. It enforces best practices for security and compliance for platforms and applications through policies as code. Kyverno operates as a dynamic admission controller to mutate, validate, or generate resources based on policy rules. The LFX mentorship is a 12-week long program that provides mentees with guidance and support to get involved in open source projects. The project maintainers provide students with the opportunity to learn while gaining real-world experience by contributing to community-driven projects. The program runs three times a year during Spring, Summer and Fall. Once I learnt about the LFX mentorship, I applied through the official process. After a few weeks of contributing, I got familiar with Kyverno’s codebase, community, and maintainers. I realised Kyverno’s project was the best fit for me.