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steampipe

Zero-ETL, infinite possibilities. Live query APIs, code & more with SQL. No DB required.

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Zero-ETL, infinite possibilities. Live query APIs, code & more with SQL. No DB required.

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I was just trying to get a sense for where the line of demarcation was in your mind. PG has "foreign data wrappers"[1] that allow one to treat external ... whatever ... as if it were a table or procedure within PG. Just stupid powerful, IMHO. It is FDW-specific whether "transaction" means anything to the foreign system, so that may break your mental model but could still get you very close (e.g. BEGIN; UPDATE s3 SET ...; ROLLBACK; may not do anything sensible) https://github.com/turbot/steampipe#steampipe-plugins and https://steampipe.io/docs/steampipe_postgres/overview may be relevant, although watch out for Steampipe's license https://github.com/topics/foreign-data-wrapper and https://github.com/topics/fdw are some other examples 1: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/17/fdwhandler.html (although strictly speaking that page is for _authorin
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g_ FDW, not a tl;dr of the concept)
In Amazon Aurora DSQL
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). 1 - https://github.com/turbot/steampipe 2 - https://hub.powerpipe.io/?objectives=cost 3 - https://hub.flowpipe.io/mods/turbot/aws_thrifty
In Show HN: See the impact on your cloud costs as you code
be mindful of its AGPLv3 https://github.com/turbot/steampipe/blob/v0.21.8/LICENSE (AFAIK v0.4.3 is the last MIT release https://github.com/turbot/steampipe/blob/v0.4.3/LICENSE ) and the actual providers are Apache 2 <https://github.com/turbot/steampipe-plugin-aws/blob/v0.131.0...> (but I don't know if provider drift makes them compatible with 0.4 or not) iasql seems to be AWS only, but good for them for taking this on: https://github.com/alantech/iasql/blob/v0.1.9/src/services/c... My heart goes out to anyone having to touch AWS IAM canonicalization
In Osquery: An sqlite3 virtual table exposing operating system data to SQL
Perhaps give Flowpipe [1] a try? It provides "Pipelines for DevOps", including a library of AWS actions [2], that can be run on a schedule (e.g. daily) or a trigger (e.g. instance start) to do things like turn off, update or delete expensive assets. It can also be combined with Steampipe [3] and the queries from the AWS Thrifty mod [4] to do common queries. We'd love your feedback if you give it a spin! 1 - https://github.com/turbot/flowpipe 2 - https://github.com/turbot/flowpipe-mod-aws 3 - https://github.com/turbot/steampipe 4 - https://github.com/turbot/steampipe-mod-aws-thrifty
In Launch HN: Dashdive (YC W23) – Track your cloud costs precisely
Readers may find Steampipe's [1] AWS Thrifty Mod [2] useful. It will automatically scan multiple accounts and regions for 50 cost saving opportunities - many of which are looking for over-provisioned or unused resources. For example, it's crazy how much you can save by doing things like just converting your EBS volumes to the newer gp3 type. Combine with Flowpipe [3] to automate checks and actions. It's all open source and extensible. 1 - https://github.com/turbot/steampipe 2 - https://github.com/turbot/steampipe-mod-aws-thrifty 3 - https://github.com/turbot/flowpipe
In Cutting down AWS cost by $150k per year simply by shutting things off
Readers may enjoy Flowpipe [1], an open source cloud scripting engine we launched this week. It allows creation of pipelines in HCL to connect HTTP queries, run containers, execute lambda-compatible functions, query databases, etc all from your own machine / CLI. It can also be combined with Steampie[2], our open source project to query cloud resources (139+ plugins) with SQL. We're more DevOps focused, but Yahoo Pipes was part of the inspiration for our naming of these "pipes" :-) 1 - https://github.com/turbot/flowpipe 2 - https://github.com/turbot/steampipe
In Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes

Show HN: Flowpipe – cloud scripting using HCL

Flowpipe [1] is a new open source [2] cloud scripting engine from Turbot [3]. Some of you may already use Steampipe [4], our open-source [5] tool to live query cloud APIs. We believe DevOps teams need an easier way to orchestrate their cloud, build workflows and respond to events. But - because it's DevOps - that must be in code. In Flowpipe, pipelines are written in HCL and use simple primitives for HTTP requests, executing containers, running Lambda-compatible functions, querying databases like Steampipe and more. We have also published a large ecosystem of open source Flowpipe Mods [6]. Our introduction blog post gives a clear overview and demo [7], hopefully :-) Please let us know what you think! 1 - https://flowpipe.io 2 - https://github.com/turbot/flowpipe 3 - https://turbot.com 4 - https://steampipe.io 5 - https://github.com/turbot
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We use our open source project Steampipe [1] to query data using the GitHub plugin [2] and mods [3]. We have also opened up the custom mod we built for the specific charts & reports [4]. I hope they help - let us know if you give them a try! 1 - https://github.com/turbot/steampipe 2 - https://hub.steampipe.io/plugins/turbot/github 3 - https://hub.steampipe.io/mods?q=github 4 - https://github.com/turbot/steampipe-mod-community-tracker
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