Automating Configuration Auditing with Starboard Operator

Starboard Operator v0.9 adds configuration auditing via Polaris to its existing vulnerability scanning for Kubernetes workloads. The operator automatically schedules vulnerability and configuration audits when Deployments are created or modified, persists audit reports as Kubernetes custom resources stored in etcd, and integrates with tools like kubectl, Lens, and Octant. Planned future work includes extending audits to additional Kubernetes objects (Services, Secrets, ConfigMaps) and integrating kube-bench for CIS node benchmarks.