Author:

Dominik Richter

Dominik is an Engineering Manager on the Core Engineering team at Chef.


InSpec goes networking

Recently we announced the release of InSpec for cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and VMware. It demonstrates InSpec’s evolution in going from operating systems compliance to platforms and APIs compliance. During the keynote at ChefConf 2017, Christoph Hartmann highlighted another part of this evolution: InSpec’s support for network management APIs.

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InSpec launches support for cloud platform assessments

InSpec Cloud Modules We are proud to announce the release of three new open-source incubation projects to the InSpec community: inspec-aws, inspec-azure, and inspec-vmware. With these projects, InSpec extends its reach into these widely used platforms. You can now use InSpec for cloud native security and integration testing.

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Announcing InSpec 1.0 – Compliance as Code

One year ago, we released InSpec, an open-source project for infrastructure and test automation that helps companies incorporate compliance into their deployment pipelines. Today, after 70 releases, and with a great development community to support us, we are proud to announce InSpec 1.0 and the launch of inspec.io.

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Chef Compliance 0.14.5 release

Chef Compliance 0.14.5 is now available from the Chef downloads site. This is a minor release update which is recommended for all users of Chef Compliance. It is available now through the downloads page. Some highlights of this release are: * Add auditd_rules support for new syntax (v2.3) and add filters.

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Chef Compliance 0.9.6 release

Chef Compliance 0.9.6 is now available from the Chef downloads site. This is a minor release update which is recommended for all users of Chef Compliance. Enhancements: Remove public key for SSH from UI and API Simplify and improve API documentation found at https://docs.chef.io/api_compliance.

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Chef Compliance 0.9.5 Release

Chef Compliance 0.9.5 is now available from the Chef downloads site. This is a minor release update which is recommended for all users for Chef Compliance. Enhancements Bulk add or remove nodes in the UI. Paste a list of IPs or hostnames which are comma- or space-separated and have them quickly added.

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The Road to InSpec

On Tuesday, we announced the release of the InSpec infrastructure testing framework as part of the release of Chef Compliance. Today we would like to dive into how and why we decided to create InSpec, from its journey as a Serverspec extension to its current state as a standalone project.

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