Readers may also enjoy Steampipe [1], an open source tool to live query 140+ services with SQL (e.g. AWS, GitHub, CSV, Kubernetes, etc). It uses Postgres Foreign Data Wrappers under the hood and supports joins etc with other tables. (Disclaimer - I'm a lead on the project.)
Steampipe project lead here - thanks for the shout out & feedback multani!
I agree with your comment about JSON columns being more difficult to work with at times. On balance, we've found that approach more robust than creating new columns (names and formats) that effectively become Steampipe specific.
Our built-in SQL client is convenient, but it can definitely be better to run Steampipe in service mode and use any Postgres compatible SQL client you prefer [1].
You might also enjoy our open source mods for compliance scanning [2] and visualizing clusters [3]. They are Powerpipe [4] dashboards as code written in HCL + SQL that query Steampipe.
Beyond the Steampipe CLI (which has an embedded Postgres), you can use the steampipe plugins as native Postgres FDWs [1], SQLite extensions [2] or command line export tools [3]. We're definitely interested in bringing the plugins to duckdb as well, but haven't had a chance to focus there yet!
Steampipe is most commonly used for DevSecOps. It works with any BI tool for dashboards (it's just Postgres), but is really great when paired with Powerpipe [1] for security benchmarks, visualizing infrastructure and much more [2]. It can definitely be used for a wide range of data scenarios, e.g. there is an OpenAI plugin [3].
thank you! We believe that SQL makes the simple stuff easy and the hard stuff doable :). Hopefully our repos & hubs have good enough examples to get you started most of the time!
Readers may also enjoy Steampipe [1], an open source tool to live query 140+ services with SQL (e.g. AWS, GitHub, CSV, Kubernetes, etc). It uses Postgres Foreign Data Wrappers under the hood and supports joins etc with other tables. (Disclaimer - I'm a lead on the project.)
Readers may also enjoy Steampipe [1], an open source tool to live query 140+ services with SQL (e.g. AWS, GitHub, CSV, Kubernetes, etc). It uses Postgres Foreign Data Wrappers under the hood and supports joins etc with other tables. (Disclaimer - I'm a lead on the project.)
For runtime cost analysis, you could try Steampipe [1] with it's Powerpipe "thrifty" [2] mods. They run dozens of automatic checks across cloud providers for waste and cost saving opportunities.
If you want to automatically make these changes (with optional approval in Slack) you can use the Flowpipe thrifty mods, e.g. AWS [3].
It's all open source and easy to update / extend (SQL, HCL).
In addition to Postgres FDWs, Steampipe plugins are also available as a SQLite extension [1] or a CLI export tool [2] for lighter weight use cases. (Although a local Postgres has a surprisingly small footprint!) Building plugins as DuckDB extensions would be cool too, but we haven't done that yet.
Readers may also enjoy Steampipe [1], an open source tool to live query 140+ services with SQL (e.g. AWS, GitHub, CSV, Kubernetes, etc). It uses Postgres Foreign Data Wrappers under the hood and supports joins etc with other tables. (Disclaimer - I'm a lead on the project.)
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