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Chef InSpec
Understanding InSpec Profile Inheritance
By Adam Leff
Engineers sometimes use the phrase DRY – Don’t Repeat Yourself. It’s commonly used when writing or reviewing code that is repetitive. The usual solution is to take the repetitious code and turn it into something that can be reused. It’s really easy to fall into the “repeat yourself” trap, even with a tool like InSpec.
Read moreChef DK 2.0 Released
By Thom May
We’re delighted to announce the release of Chef DK 2.0. This release updates many of the tools included in Chef DK, which provides more features and functionality, and adds support for partner integrations. Chef DK 2.0 contains Chef Client 13.2, and is the best way to develop, validate, and deploy Chef cookbooks.
Read moreThe 3 Must See Blog Posts You Missed Last Week
By Jamie Bright
With all the buzz of ChefConf last week, you may have missed some of our announcements. Get in the know and check out these three must see posts: InSpec launches support for cloud platform assessments Use InSpec for cloud native security and integration testing with three new open-source incubation projects: inspec-aws, inspec-azure, and inspec-vmware.
Read moreInSpec 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.
Read moreChef Announcements: Lighting the Path from Here to There
Technology shifts, such as the moves toward cloud-native applications and container-first architectures, make it clear that tomorrow will look very different from today. But how to get from here to there? Today Chef announced a host of new product features, partner offerings, and skill-building opportunities that, taken together, light a path for enterprises to follow.
Read moreInSpec 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.
Read moreChef Community Engineering – Quarterly Update
We’re excited to be in Austin, TX this week for ChefConf. Today we’re hosting a Community Summit so it’s a great time to reflect on some of the amazing things the community and community engineering team at Chef completed in the first three months of the year!
Read moreDetecting the WannaCry Exploit with InSpec
By Adam Leff
As you may have read about in the news, an exploit called “WannaCry” has been circulating and infecting Windows systems across the globe. The “WannaCry” exploit is a particularly nasty type of exploit called “ransomware”; once installed, the malware encrypts your files and holds them hostage until you pay hundreds of dollars in ransom fees.
Read moreIntegrate Chef into your Build and Release pipelines with Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services
Today, we are pleased to announce the first release of Chef Integration for Visual Studio Team Services, released to the Visual Studio Marketplace.
Read moreAchieving Windows Compliance with InSpec
This blog post is a follow-up on our Windows Compliance with InSpec webinar by Joe Gardiner, Senior Solutions Architect and Christoph Hartmann, InSpec Creator that was presented live on April 11, 2017. In that webinar, we describe what Continuous Compliance is and we cover assessment with InSpec and remediation with Chef.
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