Pester

Pester is a versatile testing framework built using PowerShell. In this article we are going to look at using Pester to audit our Azure infrastructure for security compliance. We’ve previously discussed using Pester to test Azure resources in our infrastructure pipeline. In that article we used Pester to run against a deployed Azure environment to check what we thought we had deployed had actually been deployed. In this article we’re going to take this a bit further and look at using Pester to validate that we have setup our environment in a secure manner and look for areas of concern, essentially a security audit.

Don’t forget to check out the other parts in this series: Part 1 – Version Control Part 2 – Testing Part 3- Build In part 1 of this series we took our first step in building an Infrastructure as code pipeline by moving our infrastructure files into source control. Now that we have this code in a central repository we can use this as a base for the next steps in this process.