Chef and InSpec are open source products made by Chef Software and each fulfill separate needs in their respective problem spaces. That doesn't mean they shouldn't be used together though. Pairing configuration management (Chef) and infrastructure/application testing (InSpec) is a wonderful thing. It is made even more delightful when the same company (and in most cases the same humans) work on the tools to pair them.
That being said, convenience and in some cases developer intuition can lead to unintended and sometimes dangerous consequences. This blog post was created to highlight those consequences.