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Chef InSpec
Announcing InSpec 3.0
By Nick Rycar
We’re excited to announce the release of InSpec 3.0! Since the last major revision of InSpec in February, InSpec has been downloaded 49270 times, we’ve merged more than 330 pull requests from 85 contributors, and added dozens of new resources. The 3.0 release includes a ton of bug fixes, usability improvements, and additional platform support.
Read moreChef Open Source Community News – September 2018
By Julian Dunn
Here’s this month’s round up of what happened in September across the Chef, Habitat, and InSpec open-source communities. Chef This month’s release of Chef 14 is Chef 14.5.33, which includes two new resources: windows_workgroup, which allows you to modify the system’s Windows workgroup, and locale, which sets the system locale.
Read moreInSpec compliance profiles for Azure’s CIS Benchmark and Azure Cloud Scanner in Chef Automate 2.0
By Davy McAleer
InSpec by Chef is a powerful “compliance as code” tool powered by an ever growing number of compliance profiles and target resources. It enables users to achieve continuous compliance across their IT environments.
Read moreChef Automate Incident Creation application with ServiceNow
By James Casey
Today I’m excited to announce that we’ve released our first app in the ServiceNow store: Chef Automate Incident Creation.
Read moreChef Open Source Community News – August 2018
By Julian Dunn
Here’s this month’s round up of what happened in August across the Chef, Habitat, and InSpec open-source communities. Chef This month’s release of Chef Client 14.4 is the newest in the Chef 14 series, and includes seven new preview resources, many improvements to existing resources, and a brand new Knife profile management command.
Read moreMoving forward with PowerCLI instead of InSpec-VMware
By JJ Asghar
Summary If you use the VMware ecosystem in your day to day job, you may have seen the incubation InSpec project inspec-vmware and got excited about the possibilities of running InSpec tests against your VMware Software Defined Data Centers (SDDC)s and VMware on AWS.
Read moreContinuous Compliance for Painless Ongoing Audits
By Nick Rycar
Audits are stressful. If your organization is subject to regulatory compliance rules, chances are you’ve experienced firsthand how time-consuming and painful they can be.
Read moreUsing InSpec with Cisco IOS Devices
By Julian Dunn
On Wednesday, August 1, we presented a webinar on using InSpec with Cisco IOS network devices. Today, fewer than 10% of network teams are using any automation tools, yet through the NetOps 2.
Read moreChef Open Source Community News – July 2018
By Julian Dunn
Here’s what happened in July across the Chef, Habitat, and InSpec open-source communities. Chef This month we released Chef Client 14.3, the newest release in the Chef 14 series. Chef 14.3 introduces the concept of preview resources, adds several new resources, and cleans up the shell_out API. What is a preview resource, you ask?
Read moreAutomating Cloud Compliance with AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate
By Nick Rycar
Chef, InSpec, and Habitat provide workflows for automating everything you manage, from infrastructure configuration to security auditing to application releases.
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