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          | Clear, step-by-step instructions for getting started and building your InSpec skills



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    h3 Tutorials

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    p.clear Huge thanks to Annie Hedgpeth for creating all of these fantastic tutorials.
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        a.tutorials--link href="http://www.anniehedgie.com/inspec-basics-1"
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          |  Day 1
          span  - Hello World
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          |  Day 2
          span  - Command Resource Blog Logo
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          |  Day 3
          span  - File Resource
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        a.tutorials--link href="http://www.anniehedgie.com/inspec-basics-4"
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          |  Day 4
          span  - Custom Matchers
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        a.tutorials--link href="http://www.anniehedgie.com/inspec-basics-5"
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          |  Day 5
          span  - Create a Profile
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          |  Day 6
          span  - Ways to Run It and Places to Store It
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          |  Day 7
          span  - How to Inherit a Profile from Chef Compliance Server
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          |  Day 8
          span  - Regular Expressions
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          |  Day 9
          span  - Attributes
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        a.tutorials--link href="https://learn.chef.io/tutorials/test-your-infrastructure-code/"
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          span  Test Your Infrastructure Code with Chef

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          span  Assess Your Infrastructure with Chef Compliance Scanner
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        a.tutorials--link href="https://learn.chef.io/tutorials/compliance-remediate/"
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          span  Remediate Compliance Failures on your Infrastructure with Chef

          
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    p.clear Additional huge thanks to Christian Johannsen, Jeremy Miller, and blindscientist for these amazing materials.

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        a.tutorials--link href="http://datatomix.com/?p=236"
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          span  Windows infrastructure testing using InSpec - Part 1
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        a.tutorials--link href="http://datatomix.com/?p=238"
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          span  Windows infrastructure testing using InSpec and Profiles - Part 2
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        a.tutorials--link href="https://github.com/jeremymv2/chef-intranet-scaffolding/blob/master/README.md"
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          span  Operating InSpec in an air-gapped environment
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        a.tutorials--link href="http://scienceofficersblog.blogspot.de/2016/02/testing-ansible-with-inspec.html"
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          span  Testing Ansible with InSpec

          
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        a.tutorials--link href="http://foodfightshow.org/2016/02/inspec.html"
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          span  InSpec Foodfight
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        a.tutorials--link href="https://www.arresteddevops.com/tdi/"
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          span  Test Driven Infrastructure With Arthur Maltson and Michael Goetz