Automate compliance checks with inspec and prometheus.io
Channel: OpenInfra Foundation
Date: 30/11/2018

Compliance checks are somewhat unpopular and are most often implmented as check-box lists or Excel sheets. But what if we are able to automate them? This is the objective of the Inspec framework, that implements Compliance as a Code. While configuration management via Ansible, Puppet, and Co. works well, you cant be sure if your impression of your service state is in sync with reality – especially, if you have long running systems. You need something to test your services against the target char