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How-to guide Policy, CI, and compliance

Disable scorecard rules

Exclude a scorecard rule while leaving the rest of its rule set enabled.

Disable an individual rule through scorecard.ruleOverrides.byRule. This keeps the rest of its built-in or custom category active.

This guide assumes the rule is in the active set. The built-in rules are, by default; a custom rule must be present under scorecard.rules.

Add the override

Section titled “Add the override”

Use the rule’s full <category>.<rule> name and set enabled = false:

cluster.nix
scorecard.ruleOverrides.byRule."reliability.hasProbes".enabled = false;

Kix excludes the rule before evaluating it, so it produces no findings. Other reliability rules continue to run.

Check the result

Section titled “Check the result”

Run the cluster checks:

kix-examples/ 
❱ kix check 19-scorecards
 TOOL       RESULT  DETAILS                      
 eval       pass    24 manifests evaluated       
 scorecard  pass    0 errors, 6 warnings, 2 info

Confirm that the disabled rule no longer appears in the findings. If it still appears, check that the override includes the category and matches the rule name exactly.

To restore the rule, remove the override. Prefer removing it over setting enabled = true, so the cluster inherits future changes to the surrounding configuration without an unnecessary exception.