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Kubewarden is a policy engine for Kubernetes. It helps with keeping your Kubernetes clusters secure 🔐 and compliant ✔.

Kubewarden policies can be written using regular programming languages or Domain Specific Languages (DSL).

Policies are compiled into WebAssembly modules that are then distributed using traditional container registries.

Getting Started 📚

Check our first-stop kubewarden/community 👋 repository for information about the organization of the project.

Take a look at our documentation 📖 Stay up to date by reading our official blog 📣 and by following us on Bluesky or Mastodon.

Get in touch with us on Slack: join the kubewarden channel hosted by the official Kubernetes workspace 👨‍💻 💬 👩‍💻

Enforcing Policies 🔒

Discover ready to use policies by visiting ArtifactHub 📦

Don't forget to take a look at kwctl, our handy multi-purpose tool for managing policies 🛠️ 🧰

Writing policies 📝

Interested in writing a new policy?

Kubewarden allows you to write policies using a variety of programming languages, including Rust, Go, Rego, CEL and others.

These are some useful resources to get you started:

Useful GitHub tags :octocat: 🏷️

Use these tags to find repositories over all GitHub 🗺️ 🌌

Purpose Tag
Policy Template kubewarden-policy-template
Policy kubewarden-policy
Policy SDK kubewarden-policy-sdk

Contributing 🙌

That's fantastic news! 🥳

Check our general CONTRIBUTING.md docs.

Quick links to "core" projects:

Project Scope Language
kubewarden-controller Kubernetes integration point Go
policy-server Run Kubewarden policies Rust
kwctl Kubewarden policy multi-purpose cli tool Rust

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  1. kwctl Public

    Go-to CLI tool for Kubewarden users

    Rust 78 20

  2. policy-server Public

    Webhook server that evaluates WebAssembly policies to validate Kubernetes requests

    Rust 144 20

  3. kubewarden-controller Public

    Manage admission policies in your Kubernetes cluster with ease

    Go 208 37

  4. rust-policy-template Public

    A Kubewarden rust policy template to be used with cargo-generate

    Rust 9 7

  5. go-policy-template Public template

    A template repository to quickly scaffold a Kubewarden policy written with Go language

    Go 11 16

  6. swift-policy-template Public template

    A template repository to quickly scaffold a Kubewarden policy written with Swift language

    Swift 1 1

Repositories

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  • kubewarden-end-to-end-tests Public

    Files used to run Kubewarden end-to-end tests

    Shell 2 Apache-2.0 6 11 1 Updated Mar 26, 2025
  • kubewarden.io Public

    Kubewarden website

    SCSS 11 15 9 1 Updated Mar 26, 2025
  • policy-server Public

    Webhook server that evaluates WebAssembly policies to validate Kubernetes requests

    Rust 144 Apache-2.0 20 23 3 Updated Mar 25, 2025
  • policy-evaluator Public

    Crate used by Kubewarden that is able to evaluate policies with a given input, request to evaluate and settings.

    Rust 15 Apache-2.0 8 23 1 Updated Mar 25, 2025
  • helm-charts Public

    Helm charts for the Kubewarden project

    Smarty 27 Apache-2.0 16 15 (2 issues need help) 1 Updated Mar 25, 2025
  • policy-fetcher Public

    Crate used by Kubewarden that is able to pull policies from OCI registries and HTTP servers.

    Rust 8 Apache-2.0 8 6 1 Updated Mar 25, 2025
  • docs Public

    Kubewarden's documentation

    JavaScript 13 CC-BY-4.0 25 25 2 Updated Mar 25, 2025
  • kwctl Public

    Go-to CLI tool for Kubewarden users

    Rust 78 Apache-2.0 20 18 2 Updated Mar 25, 2025
  • audit-scanner Public

    Reports evaluation of existing Kubernetes resources with your already deployed Kubewarden policies.

    Go 8 Apache-2.0 9 9 2 Updated Mar 25, 2025
  • kubecon-24-eu-kubewarden Public

    Experiment for Kubewarden booth at Kubecon EU 2024

    JavaScript 2 Apache-2.0 2 1 22 Updated Mar 25, 2025