Fairwinds Polaris vs Gomboc AI Code Security Platform

Fairwinds Polaris is an open source policy engine for validating and remediating Kubernetes resource configuration. It includes more than 30 built-in policies, and teams can add their own using JSON Schema. Checks cover security practices such as least privilege, privilege escalation, root execution, and host IPC or PID settings, along with resource requests and limits, readiness and liveness probes, and image tags. Polaris can run as a dashboard, an admission controller, or a command-line tool for checking local YAML files in CI/CD. Its validating webhook rejects workloads that trigger danger-level checks; warning-level findings pass and appear in the dashboard or webhook logs. A mutating webhook or command-line run can automatically remediate supported issues, including missing limits and probes and some unsafe security settings. The dashboard can audit local files or connect to a live cluster, and can be installed with kubectl or Helm. The validating webhook requires a valid TLS certificate. Polaris is free and runs on Linux, macOS, Windows, web, and self-hosted environments.

Gomboc AI Code Security Platform analyzes infrastructure-as-code and opens deterministic fixes as pull requests for review and merging. It covers Terraform, CloudFormation and Pulumi, plus more than 35 languages and other cloud-configuration formats. Its ORL execution engine follows predictable, controllable and explainable remediation paths. Gomboc says production-ready fixes are generated in under one second and that its process is 15–20x faster than KICS, Trivy and Checkov. The platform supports GitOps workflows across IDEs, version-control systems and CI/CD pipelines, with integrations for GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and Azure DevOps. Built-in practices include CIS, NIST and cloud-provider baselines; Enterprise customers can define custom policies and frameworks such as SOC 2 and HIPAA. The free Community Edition includes unlimited scans and security fixes, GitHub pull-request remediations, default policy-as-code, basic reporting and community support. Enterprise adds CI/CD integrations, API access, SSO/SAML, advanced reporting and enterprise support.