Gomboc AI Code Security Platform vs Kyverno

Gomboc AI Code Security Platform analyzes infrastructure-as-code and opens deterministic fixes as pull requests for review and merging. It covers Terraform, CloudFormation and Pulumi, plus more than 35 languages and other cloud-configuration formats. Its ORL execution engine follows predictable, controllable and explainable remediation paths. Gomboc says production-ready fixes are generated in under one second and that its process is 15–20x faster than KICS, Trivy and Checkov. The platform supports GitOps workflows across IDEs, version-control systems and CI/CD pipelines, with integrations for GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and Azure DevOps. Built-in practices include CIS, NIST and cloud-provider baselines; Enterprise customers can define custom policies and frameworks such as SOC 2 and HIPAA. The free Community Edition includes unlimited scans and security fixes, GitHub pull-request remediations, default policy-as-code, basic reporting and community support. Enterprise adds CI/CD integrations, API access, SSO/SAML, advanced reporting and enterprise support.

Kyverno is a free, open-source policy engine for defining and enforcing policy as code in Kubernetes. Its stable policy types can validate, mutate, generate or delete resources, and verify container image signatures and attestations. The Kyverno CLI can test policies against Kubernetes resource manifests in CI before they are applied to a live cluster. Documentation describes use with Helm, YAML manifests, GitHub Actions and GitOps tools such as ArgoCD. Kyverno is installed in a Kubernetes cluster; Helm is recommended for production, and YAML manifests are also available. A standard installation requires an admission controller, while background, reports and cleanup controllers are optional. Production installations should use high availability mode. The project supports CEL-based policy types and describes applying Kubernetes-style policies outside Kubernetes as part of its mission. Its webhooks default to fail-closed, so matching requests can fail if the API server cannot reach Kyverno. The project documents Cosign signatures for images and manifests, and lists CLI binaries for Linux, macOS and Windows.