cli
a lightweight, security focused, BDD test framework against terraform. (by terraform-compliance)
inspec
InSpec: Auditing and Testing Framework (by inspec)
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| cli | inspec | |
|---|---|---|
| 7 | 13 | |
| 1,318 | 2,810 | |
| 0.4% | 0.9% | |
| 5.3 | 9.4 | |
| 14 days ago | 3 days ago | |
| Python | Ruby | |
| MIT License | 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.
cli
Posts with mentions or reviews of cli.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-23.
- terraform-compliance
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Looking for a tool to enforce policies on terraform files names/content
You could also look at terraform compliance
- Alternative to Terraform Sentinel
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tf-free: A project to create free resources on all cloud-providers
+1 for tfsec. Another cool tool is terraform-compliance, although I can't say I've used it recently so I'm not sure how it compares to tfsec.
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Azure terraform-compliance examples?
If you mean this https://terraform-compliance.com/#supporting--requirements then yes, it doesn't support modules if you use Terraform 0.11.x (or lower).
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Terraforming in 2021 – new features, testing and compliance
A direct open source comparable alternative would be using terraform-compliance. It follows BDD directives so that you can specify in an easy human readable way your expectations, using:
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 cli and inspec you can also consider the following projects:
tfsec - Security scanner for your Terraform code
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
tfsec - Security scanner for your Terraform code [Moved to: https://github.com/aquasecurity/tfsec]
awspec - RSpec tests for your AWS resources.
tflint - A Pluggable Terraform Linter
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