This is the kitchen driver for InSpec. To see the project in action, we have the following test-kitchen examples available:

• Chef and InSpec
• Puppet and InSpec
• Ansible and InSpec

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'kitchen-inspec'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install kitchen-inspec

In your .kitchen.yml include

verifier:
  name: inspec

Optionally specify sudo and sudo_command

verifier:
  name: inspec
  sudo: true
  sudo_command: 'skittles'

You can also specify the host and port to be used by InSpec when targeting the node. Otherwise, it defaults to the hostname and port used by kitchen for converging.

verifier:
  name: inspec
  host: 192.168.56.40
  port: 22

If you want to customize the output file per platform or test suite you can use template format for your output variable. Current flags supported:

• %{platform}
• %{suite}

verifier:
  name: inspec
  format: junit
  output: path/to/results/%{platform}_%{suite}_inspec.xml

You can also decide to only run specific controls, instead of a full profile. This is done by specifying a list of controls:

suites:
  - name: supermarket
    run_list:
      - recipe[apt]
      - recipe[ssh-hardening]
    verifier:
      inspec_tests:
        - name: dev-sec/ssh-baseline
      controls:
        - sshd-46
    ...

By default kitchen-inspec expects test to be in test/integration/%suite% directory structure (we use Chef as provisioner here):

.
├── Berksfile
├── Gemfile
├── README.md
├── metadata.rb
├── recipes
│   ├── default.rb
│   └── nginx.rb
└── test
    └── integration
        └── default
            └── web_spec.rb

A complete profile is used here, including a custom inspec resource named gordon_config:

.
├── Berksfile
├── Gemfile
├── README.md
├── metadata.rb
├── recipes
│   ├── default.rb
│   └── nginx.rb
└── test
    └── integration
        └── default
            ├── controls
            │   └── gordon.rb
            ├── inspec.yml
            └── libraries
                └── gordon_config.rb

If you need support with other testing frameworks, we recommend to place the tests in test/integration/%suite%/inspec:

.
├── Berksfile
├── Gemfile
├── README.md
├── metadata.rb
├── recipes
│   ├── default.rb
│   └── nginx.rb
└── test
    └── integration
        └── default
            └── inspec
                └── web_spec.rb

In case you want to reuse tests across multiple cookbooks, they should become an extra artifact independent of a Chef cookbook, called InSpec profiles. Those can be easiliy added to existing local tests as demonstrated in previous sections. To include remote profiles, adapt the verifier attributes in .kitchen.yml

suites:
  - name: default
    verifier:
      inspec_tests:
        - name: ssh-hardening
          url: https://github.com/dev-sec/tests-ssh-hardening

inspec_tests accepts all values that inspec exec profile would expect. We support:

• local directory eg. path: /path/to/profile
• github url git: https://github.com/dev-sec/tests-ssh-hardening.git
• Chef Supermarket name: hardening/ssh-hardening # defaults to supermarket (list all available profiles with inspec supermarket profiles)
• Chef Compliance name: ssh compliance: base/ssh

The following example illustrates the usage in a .kitchen.yml

suites:
  - name: contains_inspec
    run_list:
      - recipe[apt]
      - recipe[yum]
      - recipe[ssh-hardening]
      - recipe[os-hardening]
    verifier:
      inspec_tests:
        - path: path/to/some/local/tests
        - name: ssh-hardening
          url: https://github.com/dev-sec/tests-ssh-hardening/archive/master.zip
        - name: os-hardening
          git: https://github.com/dev-sec/tests-os-hardening.git
  - name: supermarket
    run_list:
      - recipe[apt]
      - recipe[yum]
      - recipe[ssh-hardening]
    verifier:
      inspec_tests:
        - name: hardening/ssh-hardening  # name only defaults to supermarket
        - name: ssh-supermarket  # alternatively, you can explicitly specify that the profile is from supermarket in this way
          supermarket: hardening/ssh-hardening
  # before you are able to use the compliance plugin, you need to run
  # insecure is only required if you use self-signed certificates
  # $ inspec compliance login https://compliance.test --user admin --insecure --token ''
  - name: compliance
    run_list:
      - recipe[apt]
      - recipe[yum]
      - recipe[ssh-hardening]
    verifier:
      inspec_tests:
        - name: ssh
          compliance: base/ssh

To run a profile with attributes defined inline, you can adapt your .kitchen.yml:

    verifier:
      inspec_tests:
        - path: test/integration/attributes
      attributes:
        user: bob
        password: secret

You can also define your attributes in an external file. Adapt your .kitchen.yml to point to that file:

    verifier:
      inspec_tests:
        - path: test/integration/attributes
      attrs:
        - test/integration/profile-attribute.yml

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/chef/kitchen-inspec.

Apache 2.0 (see LICENSE)