Chef InSpec: Where Compliance and Security Blend

Overview 

As your applications grow and become more complex, so can your worries about the risks to your environments and ensuring they comply with your system policies and regulatory standards. While administrators deal with audits and other routine work, they also need to work on planned projects.  

DevSecOps teams could manage their endpoints with existing tools for small fleets of devices, but challenges arise when you begin to scale. This is where Chef InSpec comes into the picture. 

Chef 101: Getting Started With Automation

In this blog post, you’ll take a look at some practices that can help you get a running start with your Chef automation and the principle of Policy as Code. It’s intended for any IT professional or Chef newcomer.

Prologue: What Do I Need To Know?

This post is designed to be beginner-friendly. You don’t need any coding experience to follow along — just an interest in automation, and curiosity about how best to implement it with Chef. That said, let’s define some terms before we dive in: