KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 Co-located Event Deep Dive: KyvernoCon

Who will get the most out of attending this event? What is new and different this year? What will the day look like? Should I do any homework first? Find your community! Posted on March 17, 2026 by Co-chairs: Cortney Nickerson & Shuting Zhao CNCF projects highlighted in this post As Kubernetes adoption continues to accelerate across enterprise platforms and AI-driven workloads, organizations increasingly need automated guardrails for security, governance, and compliance. KyvernoCon launched in 2025 as the first event dedicated to the Kyverno community and the growing role of policy as code in Kubernetes environments. As Kyverno sees rapid adoption, a growing contributor community, and expanding real-world use across the ecosystem, this event creates an opportunity for practitioners to share lessons learned and explore how policy-driven approaches are shaping modern platform engineering in the era of AI. KyvernoCon is valuable for anyone building, operating, or securing Kubernetes platforms. Platform engineers, SREs, and security practitioners running Kubernetes in production will gain practical insights into implementing policy-driven governance, security guardrails, and operational consistency at scale. Our event is also valuable for open source contributors, ecosystem partners, and practitioners who want to better understand how policy as code fits into modern cloud native platforms and connect with others working on similar challenges across the global community. Platform Engineering Policy as code is increasingly becoming a core capability for platform teams operating Kubernetes environments at scale. Kyverno enables platform engineers to embed governance, security, and operational guardrails directly into their platforms while improving consistency and the developer experience. Security Kyverno helps teams automate security and compliance policies directly within Kubernetes workflows, allowing organizations to enforce configuration standards, reduce risk, and address supply chain and runtime security concerns earlier in the software delivery lifecycle. This year’s event reflects the rapid evolution of the policy-as-code landscape as Kubernetes adoption continues to expand across increasingly complex environments. Recent Kyverno releases have introduced stronger alignment with emerging Kubernetes policy standards, including expanded CEL-based policy capabilities and improvements that support policy-driven workflows across development and runtime environments. At the same time, the Kyverno community has grown significantly, with more organizations adopting policy-driven approaches to manage security, governance, and operational guardrails at scale.