taskcat vs inspec-aws

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taskcat		inspec-aws
	Project
5	Mentions	1
1,140	Stars	132
1.1%	Growth	0.8%
5.4	Activity	4.9
17 days ago	Latest Commit	about 1 month ago
Python	Language	Ruby
Apache License 2.0	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.

taskcat

Posts with mentions or reviews of taskcat. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-05.

Is anyone here using an azure build pipeline for CloudFormation? (Specifically, what do you "build"?)
1 project | /r/devops | 27 Jun 2021
Testing IaC in a CI/CD pipeline
1 project | /r/aws | 31 May 2021

you want to look at a tool called task cat. https://github.com/aws-quickstart/taskcat
Stack/Resource testing tools?
3 projects | /r/aws | 5 May 2021

I am looking for an alternative to inspec-aws. It is a great tool but has poor coverage of resources and doesn't look like it will ever catch up. Are there any similar alternatives? I have seen Taskcat but it is not quite the same and not what I am looking for. I am looking for something that can test for existence/configuration of existing resources no matter how they were created.
Suggested reading or videos on how to properly structure your Git repository for things like CloudFormation, and other IAC implementations?
2 projects | /r/aws | 15 Apr 2021
Moving terraform deployment to codepipeline/cloudformation
1 project | /r/aws | 13 Jan 2021

inspec-aws

Posts with mentions or reviews of inspec-aws. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-05.

Stack/Resource testing tools?
3 projects | /r/aws | 5 May 2021

I am looking for an alternative to inspec-aws. It is a great tool but has poor coverage of resources and doesn't look like it will ever catch up. Are there any similar alternatives? I have seen Taskcat but it is not quite the same and not what I am looking for. I am looking for something that can test for existence/configuration of existing resources no matter how they were created.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing taskcat and inspec-aws you can also consider the following projects:

awesome-aws - A curated list of awesome Amazon Web Services (AWS) libraries, open source repos, guides, blogs, and other resources. Featuring the Fiery Meter of AWSome.

steampipe - Zero-ETL, infinite possibilities. Live query APIs, code & more with SQL. No DB required.

vscode-cloudformation-snippets - This extension adds snippets for all the AWS CloudFormation resources into Visual Studio Code.

inspec - InSpec: Auditing and Testing Framework

troposphere - troposphere - Python library to create AWS CloudFormation descriptions

cis-docker-benchmark - CIS Docker Benchmark - InSpec Profile

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

awesome-projen - P6M7G8's Awesome Projen