Install InSpec on Mac

Option 1 (Package installer)

The InSpec package is available for MacOS, RedHat, Ubuntu and Windows. Download the latest package at InSpec Downloads or install InSpec via script:

# RedHat, Ubuntu, and macOS
$ curl https://omnitruck.chef.io/install.sh | sudo bash -s -- -P inspec

Option 2 (Terminal install)

Another option is to install InSpec via a command line:

1. Install Homebrew

Before I could install InSpec, I needed to have the latest version of Ruby installed. And before I could install the latest version of Ruby, I had to install Homebrew, the OS X package manager.

$ /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

2. Update Ruby

$ brew install rbenv ruby-build

Add rbenv to bash so that it loads every time you open a terminal

$ echo 'if which rbenv > /dev/null; then eval "$(rbenv init -)"; fi' >> ~/.bash_profile
$ source ~/.bash_profile

$ rbenv install 2.7.2
$ rbenv global 2.7.2

Close terminal and reopen.

$ ruby -v

3. Installing InSpec

Now we’re on to the good stuff. Let’s install InSpec:

$ gem install inspec

4. Installing additional gems

Install the following gems:

$ gem install bundler
$ gem install test-kitchen

After Install

Once InSpec is installed, run inspec version to verify that the installation was successful.