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Receiving Undefined Local Variable or Method Error for Cloud Resource error.

This error is a result of invoking a resource from one of the cloud resource packs without initializing an InSpec profile with that resource pack as a dependency. See the Resolution section for how to resolve this error when using InSpec with the AWS cloud resource.

This error is a result of invoking a resource from one of the cloud resource packs without initializing an InSpec profile with that resource pack as a dependency.

See the Resolution section for how to resolve this error when using InSpec with the AWS cloud resource.

InSpec profiles that use any cloud resource must have the resource pack defined as a dependency.

InSpec-AWS

Since this is an InSpec resource pack, it defines the InSpec resources and includes example tests only. To use the AWS resources in your tests, do the following:

inspec init profile --platform aws my-profile

The above command generates a sample inspec.yml that depends on master. We recommend this is pinned to a release of the resource pack as follows:

name: my-profile
title: My own AWS profile
version: 0.1.0
inspec_version: '>= 4.6.9'
depends:
  - name: inspec-aws
    url: https://github.com/inspec/inspec-aws/archive/x.tar.gz
supports:
  - platform: aws

Use the Resources

Since this is an InSpec resource pack, it only defines InSpec resources. To use these resources in your controls, create your profile:

Create a profile

inspec init profile --platform aws my-profile

The above command generates a sample inspec.yml that depends on master. We recommend this is pinned to a release of the resource pack as follows.

Example inspec.yml:

name: my-profile
title: My own AWS profile
version: 0.1.0
inspec_version: '>= 4.6.9'
depends:
 - name: inspec-aws
   url: https://github.com/inspec/inspec-aws/archive/x.tar.gz
supports:
 - platform: aws

(For available inspec-aws versions, see this list of inspec-aws versions.)

If a resource is in local, change the url to path.

name: my-profile
title: My own AWS profile
version: 0.1.0
inspec_version: '>= 4.6.9'
depends:
 - name: inspec-aws
   path: ../my-profile
supports:
 - platform: aws

(For available inspec-aws versions, see this list of inspec-aws versions.)

Add some tests and run the profile via:

inspec exec my-profile -t aws://

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See the relevant resource pack readme for instructions:

• inspec-aws README
• inspec-azure README
• inspec-gcp README