Admission control
A Kubernetes control-plane checkpoint that can validate (and sometimes mutate) API requests before they are persisted.

Validating Admission Policy (VAP)
A Kubernetes feature that lets the API server evaluate CEL expressions to validate requests, and requests must pass all evaluations to be admitted.

Policy-as-Intent
A way to express governance as desired outcomes (“what should be true”) rather than low-level implementation details (“how to enforce it”), so platforms can translate intent into enforceable policy artifacts.

Intent
Human-friendly governance requirements (e.g., “only allow images from approved registries”) that later become enforceable logic.

Policy pack
A curated set of policies aligned to a standard (security baseline, best practices, internal compliance) meant to be adopted as a unit.

Cluster governance
The continuous process of keeping workloads aligned with security, compliance, and operational rules across environments.

Guardrails
Constraints that prevent unsafe changes, typically applied at deploy time and/or admission time.

Validation/Mutation logic
Rules that determine whether a resource should be admitted or rejected.

Multi-Model Consensus
A reliability approach where multiple AI models generate answers independently, and a separate consensus layer selects or ranks the best output using signals like agreement, similarity/clustering, confidence, or learned scoring.