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Chef InSpec


Chef InSpec Best Practices: #1 Scaling Infrastructure Testing

See how Chef InSpec can be used to test infrastructure, security, and compliance policies across heterogeneous IT estates.

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Reducing Multiple Network Calls with Chef InSpec Cloud Resource Packs

Reducing network calls from cloud resources to cloud providers.

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Infrastructure Testing and Compliance with Chef and Terraform

This blog discusses how modern configuration management and provisioning tools, such as Chef and Terraform, use the concepts of infrastructure as code and policy as code to deploy secure instances in the cloud.

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The Best Developers are Lazy

The best developers are lazy, but that’s because they automate repetitive tasks.

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An Introduction to Chef InSpec Waivers

Chef InSpec waivers enable the user to provide justification for skipping controls to which they knowingly are not within compliance.

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Deconstructing Compliance and Security – How is it Different?

The blog discusses how compliance and security differ and how Chef can help you achieve compliance while maintaining a secure infrastructure.

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Chef InSpec – Where Compliance and Security Blend into DevOps World

Guidelines on how to start with the Chef InSpec on the technical side.

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Extending InSpec Resources: Core Resource Inheritance

A developer’s guide to extending Chef InSpec through Ruby inheritance of core resources to re-use the core functionality in custom resources.

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Hosted Chef Scheduled Maintenance and Downtime January 6, 2022

Hosted Chef, your gateway to managing Chef infrastructure in the cloud, is set to receive an upgrade to its database. In order to facilitate this upgrade, we will be migrating all content to a new version of PostgreSQL. We will also be upgrading the application to Chef Infra server 14.10.

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Shift Left with Chef Compliance

This blog post discusses the security and compliance challenges that create major roadblocks in software delivery and why most organizations find implementing auditing and remediating processes daunting.

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