--- title: CNCF Announces Kyverno Graduation as Policy-as-Code... description: The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has graduated Kyverno, a Kubernetes-native policy engine, at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026. Originally created by... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-announces-kyverno-graduation-as-policy-as-code-adoption-grows-leqekfz9g twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: CNCF Announces Kyverno Graduation as Policy-as-Code Adoption Grows | daily.dev og:description: The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has graduated Kyverno, a Kubernetes-native policy engine, at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026. Originally created by... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-announces-kyverno-graduation-as-policy-as-code-adoption-grows-leqekfz9g og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/leqEkFz9G.png og:image:alt: CNCF Announces Kyverno Graduation as Policy-as-Code Adoption Grows og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # CNCF Announces Kyverno Graduation as Policy-as-Code Adoption Grows **[Cloud Native Now](https://daily.dev/sources/cloudnativenow)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has graduated Kyverno, a Kubernetes-native policy engine, at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026. Originally created by Nirmata and donated to CNCF in 2020, Kyverno has grown from 574 to over 9,000 GitHub stars and is used in production by major organizations including Bloomberg, Coinbase, LinkedIn, and Spotify. The project has adopted Common Expression Language in its latest release, aligning with Kubernetes admission control direction. Future work will extend policy enforcement across the cloud native stack, including AI and Model Context Protocol gateways. Graduation followed a third-party security audit and formal governance review. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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