15. Extra Info - Running InSpec with a Local Profile

MoJune 29, 2022About 2 min

15. Example running an InSpec profile using a local archive (for air-gapped target systems)

Tips

For more information on how to install InSpec on an airgapped system use the chef instructions as guidance

15.1. Prerequisites

Since a variety of different practices are used to create an air-gapped network, this guide focuses solely on the implementation of Chef software - as such, it makes the following assumptions:

You have a way to get packages to your air-gapped machines
Machines on your air-gapped network are able to resolve each other using DNS
A server’s Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) is the name that will be used by other servers to access it
You have a private Ruby gem mirror to supply gems as needed
You have an artifact store for file downloads. At a minimum, it should have the following packages available:
1. Chef Workstation
2. Chef Infra Client
3. Chef Supermarket
4. An install script for Chef Infra Client

15.2. Required cookbooks

This guide will link to the required cookbooks for each piece of software in that software’s respective section, but this is a full list of the cookbooks required to complete the entire guide:

For Chef Supermarket:

15.3. Required Gems

The following Ruby gems are required to install private Supermarket using the supermarket-omnibus-cookbook:

mixlib-install
mixlib-shellout
mixlib-versioning
artifactory

These should be accessible from your Gem mirror.

15.4. Create an install script

An install script is used to install Chef Infra Client when bootstrapping a new node. It simply pulls the Chef Infra Client package from your artifact store, and then installs it. For example, on Debian-based Linux systems, it would look similar to this:

#!/bin/bash

cd /tmp/
wget http://packages.example.com/chef_13.2.20-1_amd64.deb
dpkg -i chef_13.2.20-1_amd64.deb

The install script should be accessible from your artifact store.