#inspec

Compliance checks can add 400ms of latency to CI/CD pipelines when using legacy tools, but our...

How to test infrastructure using DTAP

As a programmer, hard-coding values in my code, even test code, feels dirty and it's usually not a scalable practice. Instead of hard-coding resource IDs in your InSpec tests, you can add Outputs to a CDK app and push those values to a JSON file that your InSpec tests can use.

new features in terraform and tools to improve developing code in terraform by introducing better testing mechanisms

This entry was originally published on my blog at blog.baens.net Background This blog pos...

Traditionally, we attempt to ensure stability by reducing the vectors that can make changes to a system. In practice, that means "deployments are executed by trusted individuals with admin access". The trouble with this approach is, people make mistakes. Even admins. And not everyone can understand the implications of every script, command, or function they are asked to execute.