inspec VS awspec

Compare inspec vs awspec and see what are their differences.

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inspec awspec
13 1
2,806 1,165
0.7% -
9.5 7.3
7 days ago 11 days ago
Ruby Ruby
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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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.

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.
  • Terraforming in 2021 – new features, testing and compliance
    12 projects | dev.to | 2 May 2021
    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.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing inspec and awspec you can also consider the following projects:

terratest - Terratest is a Go library that makes it easier to write automated tests for your infrastructure code.

goss - Quick and Easy server testing/validation

checkov - Prevent cloud misconfigurations and find vulnerabilities during build-time in infrastructure as code, container images and open source packages with Checkov by Bridgecrew.

container-structure-test - validate the structure of your container images

conftest - Write tests against structured configuration data using the Open Policy Agent Rego query language

OSCAL - Open Security Controls Assessment Language (OSCAL)

tfsec - Security scanner for your Terraform code [Moved to: https://github.com/aquasecurity/tfsec]

ansible-hardening - Ansible role for security hardening. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.

lynis - Lynis - Security auditing tool for Linux, macOS, and UNIX-based systems. Assists with compliance testing (HIPAA/ISO27001/PCI DSS) and system hardening. Agentless, and installation optional.

tfenv - Terraform version manager

terraform-switcher - A command line tool to switch between different versions of terraform (install with homebrew and more)