diff --git a/pkg/cel/libs/context/impl.go b/pkg/cel/libs/context/impl.go
index 4a8be7990a..2ceab25d82 100644
--- a/pkg/cel/libs/context/impl.go
+++ b/pkg/cel/libs/context/impl.go
@@ -1,34 +1,28 @@
 package context
 
 import (
-	"context"
-
 	"github.com/google/cel-go/common/types"
 	"github.com/google/cel-go/common/types/ref"
 	"github.com/kyverno/kyverno/pkg/cel/utils"
-	metav1 "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1"
-	"k8s.io/client-go/kubernetes"
 )
 
 type impl struct {
 	types.Adapter
-	client kubernetes.Interface
 }
 
-func (c *impl) context_get_cm(arg ref.Val) ref.Val {
-	if ref, err := utils.ConvertToNative[ConfigMapReference](arg); err != nil {
+func (c *impl) get_configmap_string_string(args ...ref.Val) ref.Val {
+	if self, err := utils.ConvertToNative[Context](args[0]); err != nil {
+		return types.WrapErr(err)
+	} else if namespace, err := utils.ConvertToNative[string](args[1]); err != nil {
+		return types.WrapErr(err)
+	} else if name, err := utils.ConvertToNative[string](args[2]); err != nil {
 		return types.WrapErr(err)
 	} else {
-		cm, err := c.client.CoreV1().ConfigMaps(ref.Namespace).Get(context.TODO(), ref.Name, metav1.GetOptions{})
+		cm, err := self.GetConfigMap(namespace, name)
 		if err != nil {
 			// Errors are not expected here since Parse is a more lenient parser than ParseRequestURI.
 			return types.NewErr("failed to get resource: %v", err)
 		}
-		out, err := utils.ConvertObjectToUnstructured(cm)
-		if err != nil {
-			// Errors are not expected here since Parse is a more lenient parser than ParseRequestURI.
-			return types.NewErr("failed to convert to unstructured: %v", err)
-		}
-		return c.NativeToValue(out.UnstructuredContent())
+		return c.NativeToValue(cm.UnstructuredContent())
 	}
 }
diff --git a/pkg/cel/libs/context/lib.go b/pkg/cel/libs/context/lib.go
index 51f386f372..30a1ae511b 100644
--- a/pkg/cel/libs/context/lib.go
+++ b/pkg/cel/libs/context/lib.go
@@ -1,36 +1,23 @@
 package context
 
 import (
-	"reflect"
-
 	"github.com/google/cel-go/cel"
 	"github.com/google/cel-go/common/types"
-	"github.com/google/cel-go/ext"
-	"k8s.io/client-go/kubernetes"
 )
 
-// lib types
-var ConfigMapReferenceType = types.NewObjectType("context.ConfigMapReference")
+type lib struct{}
 
-type lib struct {
-	client kubernetes.Interface
+func Lib() cel.EnvOption {
+	// create the cel lib env option
+	return cel.Lib(&lib{})
 }
 
-func Lib(client kubernetes.Interface) cel.EnvOption {
-	// create the cel lib env option
-	return cel.Lib(&lib{
-		client: client,
-	})
+func (*lib) LibraryName() string {
+	return "kyverno.context"
 }
 
 func (c *lib) CompileOptions() []cel.EnvOption {
 	return []cel.EnvOption{
-		ext.NativeTypes(
-			// TODO: needs cel lib bump
-			// ext.ParseStructTags(true),
-			reflect.TypeFor[ConfigMapReference](),
-		),
-		// extend environment with function overloads
 		c.extendEnv,
 	}
 }
@@ -43,13 +30,12 @@ func (c *lib) extendEnv(env *cel.Env) (*cel.Env, error) {
 	// create implementation, recording the envoy types aware adapter
 	impl := impl{
 		Adapter: env.CELTypeAdapter(),
-		client:  c.client,
 	}
 	// build our function overloads
 	libraryDecls := map[string][]cel.FunctionOpt{
-		"context.configMap": {
-			// TODO: add more overloads...
-			cel.Overload("context_get_cm", []*cel.Type{ConfigMapReferenceType}, types.DynType, cel.UnaryBinding(impl.context_get_cm)),
+		"GetConfigMap": {
+			// TODO: should not use DynType in return
+			cel.MemberOverload("get_configmap_string_string", []*cel.Type{ContextType, types.StringType, types.StringType}, types.DynType, cel.FunctionBinding(impl.get_configmap_string_string)),
 		},
 	}
 	// create env options corresponding to our function overloads
diff --git a/pkg/cel/libs/context/types.go b/pkg/cel/libs/context/types.go
index c2ff41ff23..cdce14af9b 100644
--- a/pkg/cel/libs/context/types.go
+++ b/pkg/cel/libs/context/types.go
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 package context
 
-type ConfigMapReference struct {
-	Name      string `cel:"name"`
-	Namespace string `cel:"namespace"`
+import (
+	"github.com/google/cel-go/common/types"
+	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1/unstructured"
+)
+
+var ContextType = types.NewObjectType("context.Context")
+
+type Context interface {
+	GetConfigMap(string, string) (unstructured.Unstructured, error)
 }