| Policy user | Someone who takes a policy and uses it in a cluster. They deploy policies and observe results. They configure the policy settings but don't write the policy internal code (if there is any). |
| Operator | Someone operating Kubewarden in a cluster. Installs and maintains Kubewarden. |
| Policy distributor | Someone who has written a policy and wants to share it with others. They want the policy consumed by the “policy user” role. A distributor of Kubewarden policies, to places such as ArtifactHub or private OCI repositories. |
| Policy developer | A person designing and writing policies for Kubewarden for others to consume. |
| Integrator | Builds with, using, or on top of Kubewarden. Perhaps a custom UI or a helper tool for generating policies. |
| Developer | A person working on the Kubewarden product set. Building Kubewarden itself. |