Postmortem: How Not Knowing OPA 0.70 and Kyverno 1.12 Cost Me a DevSecOps Role at Stripe

Postmortem: How Not Knowing OPA 0.70 and Kyverno 1.12 Cost Me a DevSecOps Role at Stripe I’ve been a DevSecOps engineer for 6 years, with a focus on cloud native policy enforcement using Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Kyverno. When I landed an interview for a senior DevSecOps role at Stripe earlier this year, I was confident: I had years of experience writing Rego policies, deploying Kyverno ClusterPolicies, and scaling policy checks for Kubernetes workloads. I never expected that gaps in my knowle