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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 GCP 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 GCP cloud resource.

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

InSpec-GCP

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

Create a new profile for GCP

$ inspec init profile --platform gcp my-profile

Create new profile at /Users/spaterson/my-profile

 * Create directory libraries
 * Create file README.md
 * Create directory controls
 * Create file controls/example.rb
 * Create file inspec.yml
 * Create file attributes.yml
 * Create file libraries/.gitkeep

Update inputs.yml to point to your project

gcp_project_id: 'my-gcp-project'

Run the tests

$ cd my-profile/
$ inspec exec . -t gcp:// --input-file inputs.yml

Profile: GCP InSpec Profile (my-profile)
Version: 0.1.0
Target:  gcp://local-service-account@my-gcp-project.iam.gserviceaccount.com

  ✔  gcp-single-region-1.0: Ensure single region has the correct properties.
     ✔  Region europe-west2 zone_names should include "europe-west2-a"
  ✔  gcp-regions-loop-1.0: Ensure regions have the correct properties in bulk.
     ✔  Region asia-east1 is expected to be up
     ✔  Region asia-east2 is expected to be up
     ✔  Region asia-northeast1 is expected to be up
     ✔  Region asia-northeast2 is expected to be up
     ✔  Region asia-northeast3 is expected to be up
     ✔  Region asia-south1 is expected to be up
     ✔  Region asia-south2 is expected to be up
     ✔  Region asia-southeast1 is expected to be up
     ✔  Region asia-southeast2 is expected to be up
     ✔  Region australia-southeast1 is expected to be up
     ✔  Region australia-southeast2 is expected to be up
     ✔  Region europe-central2 is expected to be up
     ✔  Region europe-north1 is expected to be up
     ✔  Region europe-west1 is expected to be up
     ✔  Region europe-west2 is expected to be up
     ✔  Region europe-west3 is expected to be up
     ✔  Region europe-west4 is expected to be up
     ✔  Region europe-west6 is expected to be up
     ✔  Region northamerica-northeast1 is expected to be up
     ✔  Region northamerica-northeast2 is expected to be up
     ✔  Region southamerica-east1 is expected to be up
     ✔  Region us-central1 is expected to be up
     ✔  Region us-east1 is expected to be up
     ✔  Region us-east4 is expected to be up
     ✔  Region us-west1 is expected to be up
     ✔  Region us-west2 is expected to be up
     ✔  Region us-west3 is expected to be up
     ✔  Region us-west4 is expected to be up


Profile: Google Cloud Platform Resource Pack (inspec-gcp)
Version: 0.5.0
Target:  gcp://local-service-account@my-gcp-project.iam.gserviceaccount.com

     No tests executed.

Profile Summary: 2 successful controls, 0 control failures, 0 controls skipped
Test Summary:  29 successful, 0 failures, 0 skipped

The generated inspec.yml file automatically points to the InSpec GCP resource pack:

name: my-profile
title: My GCP InSpec Profile
version: 0.1.0
inspec_version: '>= 4'
inputs:
  - name: gcp_project_id
    required: true
    description: 'The GCP project identifier.'
depends:
  - name: inspec-gcp
    url: https://github.com/inspec/inspec-gcp/archive/x.tar.gz
supports:
  - platform: gcp

(For the full inspec-gcp resource documentation, see this list here.

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See the relevant resource pack readme for instructions:

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