Apply as Kyerno reviewer

[yrsuthari]

Hi Kyverno Maintainers,

I would like to be considered for the Kyverno Reviewer role. Over the past several release cycles I’ve contributed across multiple areas, with a strong focus on CEL-based policies, observability, and developer experience improvements.

Key Contribution Areas

CEL-based policy enhancements:

• Fixed brittle failure cases in CEL global context handling (#13344).

• Improved validation and exception handling logic for CEL-driven policies.

• Added resilience and test coverage for missing or null values in CEL evaluations.

Policy Exceptions & Enforcement Flexibility

• Designed and implemented fine-grained PolicyExceptions supporting image-based and value-based exceptions with configurable reporting modes (#13662
  , #13585).

• Added DeferEnforce validation mode to enable layered enforcement strategies (#12594).

Observability & Reliability:

• Strengthened error handling and logging consistency across controllers (#13415
  , #13413).

• Introduced new OpenTelemetry metrics and semantic tracing for deeper visibility into Kyverno internals (#13585).

• Improved PolicyReport generation to correctly reference mutated target resources instead of trigger resources (#13339).

Developer & User Experience:

• Fixed Helm chart drift issues by ensuring deterministic ordering of imagePullSecrets (#12999).

Improved CLI behavior and documentation:

• Proper handling of expected failures in CLI test runs (#12593).

• Completed and corrected CLI docs URLs (#13300
  , #13841).

• Fixed broken links across the docs to improve accessibility (#13840).

Reliability Improvements:

• Sanitized event names to comply with RFC 1123 and prevent admission failures (#12693).

• Enhanced logging timestamp format handling (#12557).

kyverno/kyverno#13415
kyverno/kyverno#13413
kyverno/kyverno#13344
kyverno/kyverno#13300
kyverno/kyverno#12999
kyverno/kyverno#12693
kyverno/kyverno#12557
kyverno/kyverno#13585
kyverno/kyverno#13662
kyverno/kyverno#13339
kyverno/kyverno#12594
kyverno/kyverno#12593
kyverno/kyverno#13841
kyverno/kyverno#13840

I would like to be considered for the Reviewer role with a focus on CEL policies. My contributions include improvements to CEL policy execution and exceptions, and I have also worked on applying Kyverno for compliance through the CNCF EKS CIS blog
and the cis-eks-kyverno project. I am interested in supporting the community by reviewing CEL-related features and enhancements.

[realshuting]

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[realshuting]

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[realshuting]

We seem to have some issues with the vote-bot, it should block the PR until the vote passes.

I'm reverting it and will start a new vote.

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User	Vote	Timestamp
@JimBugwadia	In favor	2025-09-03 13:51:46.0 +00:00:00
@Jonas-Beck	In favor	2025-09-03 9:23:26.0 +00:00:00
@aerosouund	In favor	2025-09-03 10:03:01.0 +00:00:00
@eddycharly	In favor	2025-09-03 9:07:28.0 +00:00:00
@fjogeleit	In favor	2025-09-03 9:09:39.0 +00:00:00
@realshuting	In favor	2025-09-03 9:06:48.0 +00:00:00

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@CortNick	In favor	2025-09-03 10:03:13.0 +00:00:00