Kyverno

Kyverno is a Kubernetes native policy management engine for security, automation, and governance. It uses Kubernetes admission controllers to validate, mutate, and generate configurations using policies written as Kubernetes resources.

Kyverno publishes 9 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including ClusterPolicyReports API, Health API, Namespaces API, and 6 more. Tagged areas include Cloud-Native, Governance, Kubernetes, Policy Management, and Security.

The Kyverno catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Kyverno’s developer surface includes documentation, getting-started guide, changelog, engineering blog, and 19 more developer resources.

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38.9/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 28/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 100/100 alive self hosted · Apache-2.0 Full breakdown ↓
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Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 38.9/100 · thin

Contract Quality 9.2 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 5.0 / 15

Access Clarity 1.2 / 15

Operational Transparency 3.6 / 10

Contract Governance 0.9 / 9

Discoverability 4.8 / 8

Regulatory Posture 1.6 / 15

Open Source Surface 10.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 28/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 0 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Open Source Surface applies to this provider. This product is open source and we read its repository directly, so Open Source Surface carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from what the repository actually publishes — a security policy, a contribution guide, a release history, a code of conduct — read live from the provider rather than inferred from our own catalog pointers. This facet adds; nothing was taken away to make room for it. An open-source project is not excused from the commercial facets, because exemption would strip it of the points it does earn. If we have the wrong repository, or this product is not open source, say so on your provider repo and we will drop the facet rather than have you publish against it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because both conditional facets apply and carry 25 points together. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks

6 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 7.9 — up to +18.4 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 33.3 — up to +13.3 composite points
Contract Quality scores 48.8 — up to +12.8 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Software Supply Chain (SBOM, Signing, Open Source Security)	standard	49.0	-	1
Jenkins Plugins + CD Foundation Landscape	standard	49.0	-	1
OpenSSF Best Practices Badge Holders	standard	49.0	-	1
Artifact Hub Cloud-Native Packages	standard	49.0	-	1

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 9

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Kyverno

Kyverno is a Kubernetes-native policy engine that runs as a dynamic admission controller to validate, mutate, and generate Kubernetes resources using policies written as Kuberne...

Kyverno CLI

The Kyverno CLI provides a command-line interface for applying and testing Kyverno policies against Kubernetes resources outside of a cluster. It can be used in CI/CD pipelines ...

Kyverno ClusterPolicyReports API

Cluster-scoped policy report endpoints

Kyverno Health API

Health and readiness endpoints

Kyverno Namespaces API

Namespace listing endpoints

Kyverno Policies API

Policy listing and detail endpoints

Kyverno Results API

Policy result query endpoints

Kyverno Sources API

Policy source listing endpoints

Kyverno Policy Reports API

Namespaced policy report endpoints

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Open Collections 8

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Kyverno Policy Reporter ClusterPolicyReports API

OPEN COLLECTION

Kyverno Policy Reporter ClusterPolicyReports Health API

OPEN COLLECTION

Kyverno Policy Reporter ClusterPolicyReports Namespaces API

OPEN COLLECTION

Kyverno Policy Reporter ClusterPolicyReports Policies API

OPEN COLLECTION

Kyverno Policy Reporter API

OPEN COLLECTION

Kyverno Policy Reporter ClusterPolicyReports PolicyReports API

OPEN COLLECTION

Kyverno Policy Reporter ClusterPolicyReports Results API

OPEN COLLECTION

Kyverno Policy Reporter ClusterPolicyReports Sources API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Kyverno API pricing

Not yet checked against Kyverno's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-04; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Free freemium	Free
Professional paid	Free
Enterprise enterprise	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Free Tier Default: 10 requests per minute
Free Tier Monthly Quota: 1000 requests per month
Professional Tier Default: 100 requests per minute

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Kyverno's documentation. All 5 limits →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Kyverno Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Kyverno Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Kyverno

SLA

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Kyverno Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Kyverno Context

11 classes · 47 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Kyverno — jsonschema rules

6 rules · 4 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 1

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Kyverno Policy

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Kyverno Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Kyverno Agentic Access

13 operations

13 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

ContributionGuide

ContributionGuide

Documentation

Documentation

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

LlmsText

LlmsText

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLD

JSONLD

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

CodeOfConduct

CodeOfConduct

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

GitHubRepository

GitHubRepository

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

SecurityPolicy

SecurityPolicy

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 5

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

IssueTracker

Releases

ChangeLog

Community

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

License

License

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: kyverno
name: Kyverno
description: Kyverno is a Kubernetes native policy management engine for security, automation, and governance. It uses Kubernetes
  admission controllers to validate, mutate, and generate configurations using policies written as Kubernetes resources.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: self-hosted
  license: Apache-2.0
  open_source: true
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Self-hosted open source · you run it yourself
  confidence: high
  source:
  - license
  - openapi
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/kyverno.png
tags:
- Cloud-Native
- Governance
- Kubernetes
- Policy Management
- Security
tags_raw:
- Cloud Native
- Governance
- Kubernetes
- Policy Management
- Security
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kyverno/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2025-01-01'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: kyverno:kyverno
  name: Kyverno
  description: Kyverno is a Kubernetes-native policy engine that runs as a dynamic admission controller to validate, mutate,
    and generate Kubernetes resources using policies written as Kubernetes resources. It supports policy types across multiple
    API groups including kyverno.io, policies.kyverno.io, and policyreport.io, covering validation, mutation, generation,
    cleanup, and image verification use cases.
  humanURL: https://kyverno.io/
  tags:
  - Kubernetes
  - Policy
  - Security
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kyverno.io/docs/introduction/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://kyverno.io/docs/installation/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kyverno.io/docs/policy-types/
  - type: ChangeLog
    url: https://kyverno.io/docs/releases/
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/kyverno/kyverno
- aid: kyverno:kyverno-cli
  name: Kyverno CLI
  description: The Kyverno CLI provides a command-line interface for applying and testing Kyverno policies against Kubernetes
    resources outside of a cluster. It can be used in CI/CD pipelines to validate resources before deployment, run policy
    tests, and interact with JMESPath expressions used in policy rules.
  humanURL: https://kyverno.io/docs/kyverno-cli/
  tags:
  - CLI
  - Developer Tools
  - Kubernetes
  - Policy
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kyverno.io/docs/kyverno-cli/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kyverno.io/docs/kyverno-cli/reference/kyverno/
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/kyverno/kyverno
- aid: kyverno:kyverno-clusterpolicyreports-api
  name: Kyverno ClusterPolicyReports API
  description: Cluster-scoped policy report endpoints
  humanURL: https://kyverno.io/
  tags:
  - ClusterPolicyReports
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/kyverno-clusterpolicyreports-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kyverno.github.io/policy-reporter/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kyverno.github.io/policy-reporter/core/api-reference/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://kyverno.github.io/policy-reporter/guide/getting-started/
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/kyverno/policy-reporter
- aid: kyverno:kyverno-health-api
  name: Kyverno Health API
  description: Health and readiness endpoints
  humanURL: https://kyverno.io/
  tags:
  - Health
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/kyverno-health-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kyverno.github.io/policy-reporter/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kyverno.github.io/policy-reporter/core/api-reference/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://kyverno.github.io/policy-reporter/guide/getting-started/
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/kyverno/policy-reporter
- aid: kyverno:kyverno-namespaces-api
  name: Kyverno Namespaces API
  description: Namespace listing endpoints
  humanURL: https://kyverno.io/
  tags:
  - Namespaces
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/kyverno-namespaces-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kyverno.github.io/policy-reporter/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kyverno.github.io/policy-reporter/core/api-reference/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://kyverno.github.io/policy-reporter/guide/getting-started/
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/kyverno/policy-reporter
- aid: kyverno:kyverno-policies-api
  name: Kyverno Policies API
  description: Policy listing and detail endpoints
  humanURL: https://kyverno.io/
  tags:
  - Policies
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/kyverno-policies-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kyverno.github.io/policy-reporter/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kyverno.github.io/policy-reporter/core/api-reference/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://kyverno.github.io/policy-reporter/guide/getting-started/
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/kyverno/policy-reporter
- aid: kyverno:kyverno-results-api
  name: Kyverno Results API
  description: Policy result query endpoints
  humanURL: https://kyverno.io/
  tags:
  - Results
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/kyverno-results-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kyverno.github.io/policy-reporter/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kyverno.github.io/policy-reporter/core/api-reference/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://kyverno.github.io/policy-reporter/guide/getting-started/
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/kyverno/policy-reporter
- aid: kyverno:kyverno-sources-api
  name: Kyverno Sources API
  description: Policy source listing endpoints
  humanURL: https://kyverno.io/
  tags:
  - Sources
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/kyverno-sources-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kyverno.github.io/policy-reporter/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kyverno.github.io/policy-reporter/core/api-reference/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://kyverno.github.io/policy-reporter/guide/getting-started/
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/kyverno/policy-reporter
- aid: kyverno:kyverno-policy-reports-api
  name: Kyverno Policy Reports API
  description: Namespaced policy report endpoints
  humanURL: https://kyverno.io/
  tags:
  - Policy Reports
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/kyverno-policy-reports-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kyverno.github.io/policy-reporter/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kyverno.github.io/policy-reporter/core/api-reference/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://kyverno.github.io/policy-reporter/guide/getting-started/
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/kyverno/policy-reporter
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/kyverno-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/kyverno-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/kyverno-finops.yml
- type: IssueTracker
  url: https://github.com/kyverno/kyverno/issues
- type: Releases
  url: https://github.com/kyverno/kyverno/releases
- type: SecurityPolicy
  url: https://github.com/kyverno/kyverno/blob/main/SECURITY.md
- type: CodeOfConduct
  url: https://github.com/kyverno/kyverno/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
- type: ContributionGuide
  url: https://github.com/kyverno/kyverno/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
- type: License
  name: Apache-2.0
  url: https://github.com/kyverno/kyverno/blob/main/LICENSE
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/kyverno-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/kyverno-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nirmata
- type: Website
  url: https://kyverno.io/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://kyverno.io/docs/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://kyverno.io/docs/installation/
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://kyverno.io/docs/releases/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/kyverno
- type: GitHubRepository
  url: https://github.com/kyverno/kyverno
- type: Blog
  url: https://kyverno.io/blog/
- type: Community
  url: https://kyverno.io/community/
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/kyverno-policy-schema.json
  name: Kyverno Policy JSON Schema
  description: JSON Schema for Kyverno Policy and ClusterPolicy custom resources including validation, mutation, generation,
    and image verification rules.
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/kyverno-context.jsonld
  name: Kyverno JSON-LD Context
  description: Linked data context mapping Kyverno policy resources and policy report entities to standard vocabularies.
- type: Integrations
  url: https://kyverno.io/integrations
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://kyverno.io/llms.txt
integrations:
- name: kyverno
- name: Adidas
- name: Bloomberg
- name: Linkedin
- name: Razorpay
- name: Robinhood
- name: Spotify
- name: Telecom
- name: US-DOD
- name: Vodafone
- name: Wayfair
- name: Yahoo
- name: Open Policy Agent
- name: CNCF
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Kyverno API — frequently asked questions

Does Kyverno have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 9 APIs from Kyverno, including Kyverno, Kyverno CLI and Kyverno ClusterPolicyReports API, and 6 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Kyverno API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 7 OpenAPI specifications for Kyverno, each linked for download from this page.

How much does the Kyverno API cost?

APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for Kyverno, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Kyverno API ready for AI agents?

Kyverno has a Kin Score of 38.9 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 28.0 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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