Kubewarden 2025 goals

[flavio]

Write your proposals for Kubewarden. What should the project attempt to reach during 2025?

Leave your ideas as comments to this issue, we will then collect and discuss them together.

[jvanz]

• Finish all the missing items required for incubation level
• Engage with Kubernetes wg-policy

[flavio]

Improve reliability and usability

• Detect wrong policies as soon as possible. With "wrong" I mean: policies that reference wasm modules that cannot be fetched, have non-valid settings
• Provide more insights to the user about the policy status: is it enforced properly, if not what happened? The user should be able to debug common issues without having to request the assistance of the cluster administrator
• Reduce start-up time: this is particularly sensible when "fat" policies (like the ones using the official Go compiler - like CEL, Kyverno) are used
• Better integration with CI: kwctl can already be used inside of CI systems, but it does that at a "lower" level. It would be more useful to be able to kwctl run not only the bare .wasm modules, but also .yml files containing Kubewarden's Custom Resources declarations.

Community

• Work to graduate to CNCF incubation level
• Keep working to increase community size, spread awareness of the project

[jhkrug]

• CNCF documentation improvement suggestions to support CNCF incubation efforts.
• Asciidoc community docs, replacing Docusaurus.