Integrate Polaris with Vulnetix. Audit Kubernetes YAML manifests and Helm charts for security vulnerabilities, reliability risks, and efficiency problems before they reach your cluster.
Install & scan
$ # Homebrew (macOS/Linux) brew tap FairwindsOps/tap brew install FairwindsOps/tap/polaris # Binary download curl -L https://github.com/FairwindsOps/polaris/releases/latest/download/polaris_linux_amd64.tar.gz | tar xz sudo mv polaris /usr/local/bin/ $ polaris audit --audit-path ./k8s/ --format json > polaris.json
Run Polaris in CI
Scan on every push and upload the report as a workflow artifact:
- name: Install Polaris
run: |
curl -L https://github.com/FairwindsOps/polaris/releases/latest/download/polaris_linux_amd64.tar.gz | tar xz
sudo mv polaris /usr/local/bin/
- name: Audit Kubernetes manifests
run: polaris audit --audit-path ./k8s/ --format json > polaris.json
- name: Upload to Vulnetix
run: vulnetix upload --file polaris.json
How Vulnetix compares: better together
Vulnetix does not replace Polaris. Keep running it. Vulnetix sits on top of Polaris (and every other scanner you already own) turning disconnected tool outputs into one prioritised, fixable queue.
Polaris is strongest at its core category and also carries features in Compliance & Policy Engines, Container & Image Scanning, just as Vulnetix spans categories.
| Capability | Vulnetix | Polaris |
|---|---|---|
| Security coverage | ||
| SAST (static code analysis) | ✓ Built-in rules + Semgrep augmentation | ✗ |
| SCA / dependencies | ✓ 40+ ecosystems, transitive graph | ✗ |
| DAST (dynamic testing) | ~ Ingests DAST results; no native dynamic engine | ✗ |
| Container & image | ✓ Image CVEs, base image, Dockerfile | ~ Checks image-config hygiene (mutable/latest tags, pullPolicy, privileged/root containers); no image CVE scanning |
| IaC / misconfiguration | ✓ Terraform, k8s, CloudFormation | ✓ Core: validates Kubernetes resource configuration against 30+ security/reliability/efficiency checks in cluster, CI, or admission modes |
| Secret scanning | ✓ 1,000+ rules, source + binary + git history | ✗ |
| Cloud / CSPM | ✓ Cloud-posture findings, compliance tab | ✗ |
| Mobile (MAST) | ~ Ingests mobile scanner output; no native mobile engine | ✗ |
| License compliance | ✓ SPDX, copyleft/AGPL/SSPL policy | ✗ |
| SBOM generation | ✓ CycloneDX 1.7 + SPDX 2.3, cosign-signable | ✗ |
| Malware / supply-chain | ✓ De-duplicated corpus + install-time firewall (25+ registries) | ✗ |
| Network / infra vuln | ~ Ingests network scanner output; no native network scanner | ✗ |
| Fuzzing | ✗ Ingests fuzzing crashes; no native fuzzer | ✗ |
| Pentest / bug bounty | ✗ Ingests pentest/bug-bounty findings; not a testing service | ✗ |
| The Vulnetix orchestration layer | ||
| Cross-scanner dedup & one queue (ASPM) | ✓ Correlates every scanner into one prioritised queue with ownership routing | ✗ |
| Exploit-intel prioritisation | ✓ EPSS, CISA KEV, Coalition ESS, CWSS, Vulnetix LEV | ✗ |
| Reachability analysis | ✓ Tree-sitter + CVEAffected; direct/transitive/semantic | ✗ |
| Versioned VEX + audit trail | ✓ Immutable OpenVEX/CycloneDX, cosign-signable | ✗ |
| Safe Harbour autofix | ✓ Resolves + applies the nearest safe version | ~ Mutating webhook can remediate resource config to best-practice defaults (e.g. inject requests/limits, probes); scoped to k8s config, not dependency fixes |
| End-of-life policy | ✓ Flags/blocks past-EOL runtimes & packages | ✗ |
| SSVC / risk-based policy | ✓ SSVC v2 + CISA/FedRAMP/Essential-8 presets | ✗ |
✓ full · ~ partial · ✗ not covered
What Polaris does well
- 30+ curated best-practice checks across three domains (Security, Reliability, and Efficiency) giving cost/resilience signal beyond just security
- Three deployment modes from one engine: live dashboard against a running cluster, CLI/CI manifest audit, and mutating/validating admission webhook
- Can auto-remediate: Polaris mutates resources to apply recommended fixes, not just report them
- Zero-config to start with sensible Fairwinds defaults, plus fully customisable check severities and exemptions
Where Vulnetix adds to it: Polaris focuses narrowly on Kubernetes resource configuration quality and has no vulnerability intelligence, SCA, SAST, secrets or supply-chain scanning. Vulnetix runs native IaC misconfiguration detection plus the full scan stack and adds cross-scanner dedup, EPSS/KEV/ESS exploit-intel, reachability, versioned VEX, EOL policy and SSVC, none of which Polaris models. Vulnetix ingests Polaris findings into its prioritised queue; it does not replace Polaris's cluster-hygiene and admission role.
No migration, no rip-and-replace. Polaris keeps doing what it does best; Vulnetix adds the orchestration, exploit-intelligence prioritisation and remediation layer built for the way AppSec works today.
Centralise Polaris results in Vulnetix
Upload Polaris JSON output to the Vulnetix platform to deduplicate findings, prioritise them with EPSS, CISA KEV and Coalition ESS exploit intelligence, and track remediation across every scanner in a single queue.