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Akamai Technologies
Cortney Nickerson is a Principal Product Marketing Manager at Akamai Technologies. As a CNCF Ambassador, she leads the Kyverno Community and is highly active in the cloud native community co-organizing various Kubernetes Community Day events, serving on the State of OpenCon Advisory Board, and co-hosting the "Code to Culture Platform Engineering Podcast" and "Humans of Cloud Native" podcast.
A recognized speaker at international events, Cortney transitioned from a non-technical background to tech as an early employee (#7) at a startup later acquired by DataDog, where she wrote content for the Data on Kubernetes Community.
Beyond technology, she is a vocal advocate for DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) and openly shares her experiences with imposter syndrome. On a personal note, she's also a parent navigating the challenge of getting her kids to bed on time.
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Kubernetes policies are often introduced to improve security and consistency, but once enabled they can be difficult to understand and troubleshoot. When a workload is rejected, teams frequently lack visibility into which policy was evaluated, how often it fails.
This talk presents a simple, technical workflow for observing Kubernetes policy behavior using Kyverno and VictoriaMetrics. Starting from a single validation policy, we show how policy evaluations and enforcement results are exposed as metrics, ingested into VictoriaMetrics and queried through a standard Prometheus-compatible API. A minimal dashboard is then used to inspect policy failures, affected namespaces and policy execution duration.
The talk focuses on making policy enforcement observable using standard Kubernetes primitives and open metrics, without assuming prior experience with policy engines or observability systems.
