Serverspec is Dead, use Inspec
Nov 5 · 2 min read
TLDR; use Inspec instead of Serverspec.
For those of you that do not know, Serverspec is a testing framework used for testing server configurations in Chef. Tests are written in Ruby.
Recently, Inspec has taken over the market as the de-facto testing framework for Chef cookbooks. This is largely in part due to the lack of maintenance that Serverspec received, although the reasons why it was abandoned are unclear.
You can see from the Serverspec Github project that no new issues can be created. There is also no mailing list or…
