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CLI Options

# top-level commands
audit
      Runs a one-time audit.
auth
      Authenticate polaris with Fairwinds Insights
dashboard
      Runs the webserver for Polaris dashboard.
fix
      Fix Infrastructure as code files.
help
      Prints help, if you give it a command then it will print help for that command. Same as -h
version
      Prints the version of Polaris
webhook
      Runs the webhook webserver.

# global flags
-c, --config string                    Location of Polaris configuration file.
-x, --context string                   Set the kube context.
    --disallow-exemptions              Disallow any exemptions from configuration file.
    --disallow-config-exemptions       Disallow exemptions set within the configuration file.
    --disallow-annotation-exemptions   Disallow any exemption defined as a controller annotation.
    --kubeconfig string                Paths to a kubeconfig. Only required if out-of-cluster.
    --insights-host string             Fairwinds Insights host URL. (default "https://insights.fairwinds.com")
    --log-level string                 Logrus log level. (default "info")

# dashboard flags
    --audit-path string          If specified, audits one or more YAML files instead of a cluster.
    --base-path string           Path on which the dashboard is served. (default "/")
    --display-name string        An optional identifier for the audit.
-h, --help                       help for dashboard
    --listening-address string   Listening Address for the dashboard webserver.
    --load-audit-file string     Runs the dashboard with data saved from a past audit.
-p, --port int                   Port for the dashboard webserver. (default 8080)

# audit flags
    --audit-path string               If specified, audits one or more YAML files instead of a cluster.
    --checks strings                  Optional flag to specify specific checks to check
    --cluster-name string             Set --cluster-name to a descriptive name for the cluster you're auditing
    --color                           Whether to use color in pretty format. (default true)
    --display-name string             An optional identifier for the audit.
-f, --format string                   Output format for results - json, yaml, pretty, or score. (default "json")
    --helm-chart string               Will fill out Helm template
    --helm-values string              Optional flag to add helm values
    --helm-skip-tests bool            Corresponds to --skip-tests of helm template
-h, --help                            help for audit
    --namespace string                Namespace to audit. Only applies to in-cluster audits
    --only-show-failed-tests          If specified, audit output will only show failed tests.
    --output-file string              Destination file for audit results.
    --output-url string               Destination URL to send audit results.
    --quiet                           Suppress the 'upload to Insights' prompt.
    --resource string                 Audit a specific resource, in the format namespace/kind/version/name, e.g. nginx-ingress/Deployment.apps/v1/default-backend.
    --set-exit-code-below-score int   Set an exit code of 4 when the score is below this threshold (1-100).
    --set-exit-code-on-danger         Set an exit code of 3 when the audit contains danger-level issues.
    --severity string                 Severity level used to filter results. Behaves like log levels. 'danger' is the least verbose (warning, danger)
    --skip-ssl-validation             Skip https certificate verification
    --upload-insights                 Upload scan results to Fairwinds Insights

# fix flags
    --checks strings      Optional flag to specify specific checks to fix eg. checks=hostIPCSet,hostPIDSet and checks=all applies fix to all defined checks mutations
    --files-path string   mutate and fix one or more YAML files in a specified folder
-h, --help                help for fix
    --template            set to true when modifyng a YAML template, like a Helm chart (experimental)


# webhook flags
    --disable-webhook-config-installer   disable the installer in the webhook server, so it won't install webhook configuration resources during bootstrapping.
-h, --help                               help for webhook
-p, --port int                           Port for the dashboard webserver. (default 9876)

# auth sub-commands
  login       Authenticate polaris with Fairwinds Insights.
  logout      Log out of a Fairwinds Insights.
  status      View authentication status.
  token       Print the auth token gh is configured to use.

Suppressing 'upload to Insights' output

When running the polaris audit subcommand, you can suppress the following output using the --quiet flag:

🚀 Upload your Polaris findings to Fairwinds Insights to see remediation advice, add teammates, integrate with Slack or Jira, and more: