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-  <h3>Best Practices for Kubernetes Workload Configuration</h3>
+  <h3>Polaris is an open source policy engine for Kubernetes</h3>
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-Fairwinds' Polaris keeps your clusters sailing smoothly. It runs a variety of checks to ensure that
-Kubernetes pods and controllers are configured using best practices, helping you avoid
-problems in the future.
+Polaris is an open source policy engine for Kubernetes that validates and remediates resource configuration. It includes 30+ built in configuration policies, as well as the ability to build custom policies with JSON Schema. When run on the command line or as a mutating webhook, Polaris can automatically remediate issues based on policy criteria.
 
 Polaris can be run in three different modes:
-* As a [dashboard](https://polaris.docs.fairwinds.com/dashboard), so you can audit what's running inside your cluster.
-* As an [admission controller](https://polaris.docs.fairwinds.com/admission-controller), so you can automatically reject workloads that don't adhere to your organization's policies.
-* As a [command-line tool](https://polaris.docs.fairwinds.com/infrastructure-as-code), so you can test local YAML files, e.g. as part of a CI/CD process.
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+* As a [dashboard](https://polaris.docs.fairwinds.com/dashboard) - Validate Kubernetes resources against policy-as-code.
+* As an [admission controller](https://polaris.docs.fairwinds.com/admission-controller) - Automatically reject or modify workloads that don't adhere to your organization's policies.
+* As a [command-line tool](https://polaris.docs.fairwinds.com/infrastructure-as-code) - Incorporate policy-as-code into the CI/CD process to test local YAML files.
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