Advance profile
We can inherit the existing profile into our profile using the depends keywords
We can inherit the profile from the following options
- path - this helps inherit the profile from the local profile
- url -this helps to inherit the profile from the remote url
- git - this helps to inherit the profile from the git repository
- supermarket - this helps to inherit the profile from the chef supermarket
- compliance - this helps to inherit the profile from the compliance server
Inheriting the profile from the Remote URL
Open the inpsec.yml in the editor of your choice and add the below line to the file
depends:
- name: ssh-baseline
url: https://github.com/dev-sec/ssh-baseline/archive/master.tar.gz
Here we are adding the ssh-baseline from the Dev-Sec Framework
- name - the flag used to specify the name of the profile
Now add the below line in the example.rb to execute the included profile along with the existing profile
include_controls 'ssh-baseline'
before running the profile remove the inspec.lock file to reload the profile
Using supports
Some times we want to run the profile only on a specific platform, in that case, we can use supports keyword
Add the below line in the inspec.yml file
supports:
- platform-name: Windows
You will get the below error
Skipping profile: 'test-profile' on unsupported platform: 'ubuntu/20.04'.
Test Summary: 0 successful, 0 failures, 0 skipped
Now replace the platform name with the platform-name of your host-os