What is InSpec?
It is an open-source testing framework for infrastructure with a human- and machine-readable language for specifying compliance, security and policy requirements.
InSpec is a tool in the Testing Frameworks category of a tech stack.
InSpec is an open source tool with 2.8K GitHub stars and 682 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to InSpec's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses InSpec?
Companies
10 companies reportedly use InSpec in their tech stacks, including Edgelab, Hudl Web Stack, and stackstorm.
Developers
97 developers on StackShare have stated that they use InSpec.
InSpec Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to InSpec?
Serverspec
With Serverspec, you can write RSpec tests for checking your servers are configured correctly.
Serverspec tests your servers’ actual state by executing command locally, via SSH, via WinRM, via Docker API and so on.
RSpec
Behaviour Driven
Development for Ruby.
Making TDD Productive and Fun.
Ansible
Ansible is an IT automation tool. It can configure systems, deploy software, and orchestrate more advanced IT tasks such as continuous deployments or zero downtime rolling updates. Ansible’s goals are foremost those of simplicity and maximum ease of use.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
