goss
Quick and Easy server testing/validation (by goss-org)
inspec
InSpec: Auditing and Testing Framework (by inspec)
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| 13 | 13 | |
| 5,438 | 2,810 | |
| 0.8% | 0.9% | |
| 7.6 | 9.4 | |
| 22 days ago | 3 days ago | |
| Go | Ruby | |
| Apache License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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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.
goss
Posts with mentions or reviews of goss.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-23.
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Tools for validating K8s features
Certain checks may be possible with goss and the kgoss wrapper: https://github.com/goss-org/goss/tree/master/extras/kgoss
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Is docker the right tool for my use case? (testing an installscript)
Docker would work. I suggest also integrating infrastructure tests to validate your install script behaved as expected. For example, you could use goss.
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Alternative to InSpec: what do you use to "assert things have been correctly configured"?
I've used https://github.com/goss-org/goss in the past and enjoyed it
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Portable security testing tooling (not chef inspec)
To answer my own question... https://github.com/goss-org/goss looks like it might do the job - at least for Linux. Windows support is alpha - and there isn't a wealth of CIS benchmarks. Might be a good project to contribute to
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Implement DevSecOps to Secure your CI/CD pipeline
Adding an extra layer of security on the container image to verify if it is working as expected and has all required files with correct permissions. We can use dgoss to do validation tests of container images.
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What are some of the best tools you have discovered as a Sysadmin?
Bit of a strange one here - Goss. This is a testing tool that we use on all of our servers to validate they are working as expected. Think of it as a sanity check after changes. We have a set of tests setup that validate that the server is working as expected and we run it automatically after any change.
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what's your goto tool for smoke-testing your site? tls, security headers, 401's, 403's, custom 404, 500 pages, redirects etc.
check out https://github.com/aelsabbahy/goss
- CI/CD Pipelines for testing standard open-source Distro like Ubuntu with docker images on it?
- Looking for tools to help smoke test kubernetes clusters
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How To Use Terraform like a Pro: Part 1
Use GOSS, a YML-based open-source tool that can assert the test results (i.e., verifying if the SSH port 22 is closed or not).
inspec
Posts with mentions or reviews of inspec.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-08.
- Testing Terraform infra - terratest alternatives?
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Ruby: "the best" language for general automation
The course uses Chef Inspec, an open source Ruby DSL. I made a POC with this tool to automatically check repositories on GitHub, checks like if it contains a gitignore consistent with the language used, if node_modules is not present, etc.
- what tool do you use for validating hardening settings have been applied. this is for security and hardening purposes. for example, ensure that admin username is not default username, password is at least 12 characters with upper, lower and special characters, https is enabled etc
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Why do you guys think testing is not a very prominent topic in the cloud native community ?
We are using Inspec to double check that the changes are indeed what we expect them to be. If anyone knows a better tool, please share
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Is there any kind of Pester Server for infrastructure tests?
https://github.com/inspec/inspec Chef Inspec is probably a great tool for what you’re trying to do. Great at building human readable test cases for validation of infrastructure deployments. At a different org I used to use PoSh, Terraform and Ansible etc. for deploying on-prem and cloud infrastructure and then Inspec for testing for successful deployments, security misconfigurations (is a port open that shouldn’t be etc).
- InSpec
- Checking compliance of controls? Job help
- Unit tests for hardened images
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Automated Configuration Analysis?
If you need the monitoring for compliance reason, Chef InSpec was designed for this exact usecase.
- Compliance Scans for Images
What are some alternatives?
When comparing goss and inspec you can also consider the following projects:
container-structure-test - validate the structure of your container images
terratest - Terratest is a Go library that makes it easier to write automated tests for your infrastructure code.
ansible-collection-hardening - This Ansible collection provides battle tested hardening for Linux, SSH, nginx, MySQL
awspec - RSpec tests for your AWS resources.
rspec-terraform-based
checkov - Prevent cloud misconfigurations and find vulnerabilities during build-time in infrastructure as code, container images and open source packages with Checkov by Bridgecrew.
configure-aws-credentials - Configure AWS credential environment variables for use in other GitHub Actions.
bats - Bash Automated Testing System
conftest - Write tests against structured configuration data using the Open Policy Agent Rego query language
ebpf - ebpf-go is a pure-Go library to read, modify and load eBPF programs and attach them to various hooks in the Linux kernel.
OSCAL - Open Security Controls Assessment Language (OSCAL)