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RSpec tests for your AWS resources. (by k1LoW)
checkov
Prevent cloud misconfigurations and find vulnerabilities during build-time in infrastructure as code, container images and open source packages with Checkov by Bridgecrew. (by bridgecrewio)
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| awspec | checkov | |
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| 1 | 54 | |
| 1,165 | 6,492 | |
| - | 1.9% | |
| 7.3 | 9.9 | |
| 14 days ago | 4 days ago | |
| Ruby | Python | |
| MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
awspec
Posts with mentions or reviews of awspec.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-02.
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Terraforming in 2021 – new features, testing and compliance
Before we dive into own cloud provider compliance checking services, we want to highlight yet another open source tool, namely InSpec. It allows you to write tests in ruby, and was built on top of RSpec. If you know already awsspec, then this should feel very similar, with the advantage that InSpec also supports GCP and Azure.
checkov
Posts with mentions or reviews of checkov.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-16.
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A Deep Dive Into Terraform Static Code Analysis Tools: Features and Comparisons
Checkov Owner/Maintainer: Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks (acquired in 2021) Age: First released on GitHub on March 31st, 2021 License: Apache License 2.0
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Top Terraform Tools to Know in 2024
Checkov is another great tool that examines your Terraform files (.tf), parsing the configurations and evaluating them against a comprehensive set of predefined policies. It scans Terraform-managed infrastructure and detects misconfigurations that could lead to security issues or non-compliance with best practices and regulations.
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A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev
Bridgecrew — Infrastructure as code (IaC) security powered by the open source tool - Checkov. The core Bridgecrew platform is free for up to 50 IaC resources.
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10 Ways for Kubernetes Declarative Configuration Management
Kustomize: It provides a solution to customize the Kubernetes resource base configuration and differential configuration without template and DSL. It does not solve the constraint problem itself, but needs to cooperate with a large number of additional tools to check constraints, such as Kube-linter, Checkov and kubescape.
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Top 10 terraform tools you should know about.
Checkov is a versatile static code analysis tool designed for infrastructure as code (IaC) and software composition analysis (SCA). It supports a wide range of technologies, including Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, Docker, and others, to detect security and compliance issues through graph-based scanning. Checkov also performs SCA scans, identifying vulnerabilities in open source packages and images by checking for Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs). Additionally, it is integrated into Prisma Cloud Application Security, a platform that helps developers secure cloud resources and infrastructure-as-code files, enabling the identification, rectification, and prevention of misconfigurations throughout the development lifecycle.
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Understanding Container Security
For your Dockerfiles, you can also scan them. There are lots of tools that can check your Dockerfiles. They will validate if Dockerfile is compliant with Docker best practices such as not using root user, making sure a health check exists, and not exposing the SSH port. You can use Snyk and Checkov.
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Apim + function app & event grid
You could try https://www.checkov.io/
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Terraform Security Best Practices
We use https://www.checkov.io/ for this, it's very simple to get started with and works really well as PR quality gate
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How long have you guys actually had the title “platform engineer”? What other titles did you have before that, if any?
Once there is a CI pipeline for delivering infra changes you can add static code analysis tools (checkov) and even start testing changes (terratest)
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What are the best static analysis security testing tools for Terraform and infrastructure as code?
I just had a brief chat with one of the developers of Checkov and it sounds nice (and open source). I haven't had a chance to play with it, but if you want to it's at https://www.checkov.io/
What are some alternatives?
When comparing awspec and checkov you can also consider the following projects:
inspec - InSpec: Auditing and Testing Framework
tfsec - Security scanner for your Terraform code [Moved to: https://github.com/aquasecurity/tfsec]
terratest - Terratest is a Go library that makes it easier to write automated tests for your infrastructure code.
trivy - Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more
tfenv - Terraform version manager
tflint - A Pluggable Terraform Linter
terraform-switcher - A command line tool to switch between different versions of terraform (install with homebrew and more)
OPA (Open Policy Agent) - Open Policy Agent (OPA) is an open source, general-purpose policy engine.
aws-vpn-client - Connect to the AWS Client VPN with SAML using OSS Client
terrascan - Detect compliance and security violations across Infrastructure as Code to mitigate risk before provisioning cloud native infrastructure.
cli - a lightweight, security focused, BDD test framework against terraform.
kics - Find security vulnerabilities, compliance issues, and infrastructure misconfigurations early in the development cycle of your infrastructure-as-code with KICS by Checkmarx.