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WORKSHOP ABSTRACT

InSpec is an open-source testing framework for infrastructure with a human-readable language for specifying compliance, security, and other policy requirements. Easily integrate automated tests that check for adherence to policy into any stage of your deployment pipeline.

This is a hands-on workshop that will give participants an introduction to InSpec and the ideas and practices required to achieve continuous compliance. During this session, participants will:

• Run InSpec locally on a machine
• Run InSpec on a remote machine
• Use InSpec in the Chef cookbook development process for integration testing

Prerequisites

Attendees should bring a wifi-enabled laptop to the workshop.

Attendees will be given a remote workstation with all prerequisites installed. The only thing required to access these workstations will be an SSH client (PuTTY on Windows) and familiarity with a interactive text editor (Vi/Vim, Emacs, or Nano).

It’s best that students of this class have some familiarity and comfort with the following:

• Writing code (of just about any flavor) in a text editor
• Working on the command line
• Basic system administration – installing packages, configuring those packages, starting service