How to: InSpec

Why In a previous series on CI/CD we covered Continuous Integration and Delivery on a chef cookbook.  We went through a great way of delivering a tested and statically correct Chef cookbook; however, one thing we didn't do was to verify whether our application was deployed securely.  Security is a huge deal in our industry…

How to: CI/CD with Chef Cookbooks and Jenkins, Part Four

Integration Testing In the previous blog post we’ve covered unit and static analysis testing for Chef cookbooks.  However, our testing was done against the code compilation.  We didn’t actually run anything to validate that the services were spun up as we wanted them to.  The Chef ecosystem does provide us with a way to do that, however, with ServerSpec. […]

How to: CI/CD with Chef Cookbooks and Jenkins, Part Three

Integration Testing In the previous blog post we’ve covered unit and static analysis testing for Chef cookbooks.  However, our testing was done against the code compilation.  We didn’t actually run anything to validate that the services were spun up as we wanted them to.  The Chef ecosystem does provide us with a way to do that, however, with ServerSpec. […]