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Connection-level qualifiers for faster queries and lower API load
Improved plugin logic dynamically filters connections based on qualifiers like account_id.
Turbot Team
May 13, 2024
Announcement
Steampipe unbundled
Why are we unbundling Steampipe and introducing Powerpipe? Because each tool sh...
Turbot Team
Mar 06, 2024
Research
What's new in the CIS v3.0 benchmark for AWS
Our analysis of the latest CIS AWS recommendations.
Bob Tordella
Feb 08, 2024
Announcement
Zero-ETL for Postgres: Live-query cloud APIs with 100+ new FDWs
A new family of Postgres extensions enable SQL queries that translate APIs to f...
Steampipe Team
Dec 12, 2023
Announcement
Zero-ETL for SQLite: Live-query cloud APIs with 100+ new extensions
A new family of SQLite extensions enable SQL queries that translate APIs to for...
Steampipe Team
Dec 12, 2023
Announcement
Command-line zero-ETL with 100+ new export tools
More than 100 Steampipe plugins are now also standalone tools for extracting da...
Steampipe Team
Dec 12, 2023
Research
select * from code;
Use SQL to query and scan infrastructure as code for insights and security best...
Steampipe Team
Oct 04, 2023
Announcement
Use Steampipe to scan Terraform code, plans, and state files
Query all aspects of your Terraform environment to answer ad-hoc questions and ...
Steampipe Team
Oct 04, 2023
Announcement
Use Steampipe to scan Kubernetes configurations, manifest files, and helm charts
Query all aspects of your Kubernetes environment to answer ad-hoc questions or ...
Steampipe Team
Oct 04, 2023
Announcement
Steampipe-powered GitOps
Two new actions make it easy to set up Steampipe, run checks, flag compliance i...
Turbot Team
Oct 04, 2023
Announcement
v0.21.0: Dials for tuning Steampipe
Memory management, rate limiting, and diagnostics to keep your Steampipe engine...
Steampipe Team
Oct 02, 2023
Announcement
select * from shell;
Use SQL to execute commands on local or remote hosts!
Steampipe Team
Oct 02, 2023
Case Study
Daemon extends Steampipe's AWS Well-Architected Mod to improve workload assessments
Learn how a consultancy adopted and customized the Steampipe AWS Well-Architect...
Steampipe Team
Jul 28, 2023
How To
Build a Top 10 mod
Here's how to build a mod to check the top 10 AWS security tips. You can use th...
Steampipe Team
Jul 18, 2023
How To
Customization guide for the AWS Well Architected Mod: Part 2
Learn how to add support for a new pillar, Sustainability, using a custom contr...
Steampipe Team
Jul 12, 2023
Research
What's new in the CIS v2.0 benchmark for AWS
Our analysis of the latest CIS AWS recommendations.
Rahul Srivastav
Jul 07, 2023
Announcement
An upgraded GitHub plugin uses GraphQL APIs to overcome throttling woes
These changes also create welcome headroom for the Compliance and Sherlock mods.
Graza Andersson
Jun 21, 2023
How To
Customization guide for the AWS Well Architected Mod: Part 1
Learn how to add support for a new pillar, Sustainability, using controls cherr...
Steampipe Team
Jun 08, 2023
Research
What's new in the CIS v1.2 benchmark for OCI
Our analysis of the latest CIS OCI recommendations.
Rahul Srivastav
Jun 06, 2023
Announcement
Steampipe Cloud 2023 Annual SOC 2 Type II Compliance
We're excited to announce that Steampipe Cloud has received its annual SOC 2 Ty...
Steampipe Team
May 23, 2023
Announcement
v0.20.0: Faster startup & revamped mod dependencies
Discover the great new features in Steampipe's open source v0.20.0 release!
Steampipe Team
May 18, 2023
Case Study
How software companies use Steampipe to enhance their products and services
Whether you embed Steampipe in your product or integrate with it, we welcome yo...
Bob Tordella
May 15, 2023
Case Study
How Claranet France leverages Steampipe for business process integration
Compliance checks running in AWS Lambda, and an in-house CMDB queried with a cu...
Jon Udell
May 12, 2023
Announcement
Aggregating connections in Steampipe Cloud
In a workspace, all connections of the same type are automatically aggregated. ...
Steampipe Team
May 10, 2023
Case Study
SRE Spotlight: Optimize usage, inventory assets, and improve resource tagging
Senior SRE / Platform Engineer Paul Solomon highlights his recent use cases wit...
Jon Udell
May 10, 2023
How To
Accelerate your AWS Well-Architected assessments with Steampipe
Now consulting partners can more effectively run assessments, customize their r...
Bob Tordella
Apr 25, 2023
How To
Prevent unsecure devices from joining your network
Use Steampipe to join data from Vanta and Tailscale to enforce workstation secu...
Bob Tordella
Apr 21, 2023
Announcement
Visualizing GCP with Relationship Graphs
Use relationship graphs to easily navigate your GCP projects and gain insights ...
Steampipe Team
Apr 20, 2023
Announcement
Steampipe images are moving to the GitHub Container Registry
If you’re fetching images from Docker Hub, you’ll want to switch over to GHCR.
Steampipe Team
Apr 18, 2023
How To
Cloud resource tagging strategies for your organization
Ensuring compliance, conformance, and accuracy in your organization's tagging p...
Chris Farris
Apr 14, 2023
How To
Tackling Third-Party Risks in your AWS Environment
Learn to identify 3rd party access to Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) and IAM cros...
Chris Farris
Apr 12, 2023
Announcement
Visualizing Kubernetes RBAC with Relationship Graphs
Use prebuilt dashboards to answer questions like 'Who can apply verb X to resou...
Steampipe Team
Apr 11, 2023
Announcement
Visualizing AWS with Relationship Graphs
Use relationship graphs to easily navigate your AWS accounts and gain insights ...
Steampipe Team
Apr 05, 2023
Announcement
A Steampipe-based Mastodon reader
Steampipe can help us participate effectively in a social network where people,...
Jon Udell
Mar 30, 2023
How To
Streamlining access to crucial business insights
Learn how to reuse data and make it accessible to your entire organization usin...
Bob Tordella
Mar 27, 2023
How To
Add context to your cloud multi-account reports
Custom names and tags make benchmark results easier to read, filter, and organi...
Steampipe Team
Mar 24, 2023
Announcement
Visualizing Azure with Relationship Graphs
Use relationship graphs to easily navigate your Azure subscriptions and gain in...
Steampipe Team
Mar 21, 2023
Research
What's new in the CIS v2.0 benchmark for Azure
Our analysis of the Azure recommendations.
Chris Farris
Mar 20, 2023
How To
Secure your Terraform deployments in AWS
Use Steampipe with AWS CodePipeline & CodeBuild to validate your Terraform code...
Chris Farris
Mar 15, 2023
How To
Limit lifetime of GCP IAM service account keys
By default GCP IAM service account keys never expire. Use Steampipe to find exp...
Steampipe Team
Mar 13, 2023
Announcement
v0.19.0: Dynamic table aggregation, Kubernetes CRDs
Discover the great new features in Steampipe's open source v0.19.0 release!
Steampipe Team
Mar 09, 2023
Announcement
Snapshot, share, and schedule queries in Steampipe Cloud
You could already schedule periodic snapshots of benchmarks and dashboards. Now...
Steampipe Team
Mar 08, 2023
How To
Uncovering Attack Paths with Cloud Resource Graphs
Leveraging Steampipe's Relationship Graphs for Penetration Testing in GCP
Chris Farris
Mar 03, 2023
Announcement
Visualizing Kubernetes with Relationship Graphs
Use relationship graphs to easily navigate your Kubernetes architecture and gai...
Steampipe Team
Feb 25, 2023
Research
Protect Auth0 identities from insider threats, credential stuffing, & more
Safeguarding your Auth0 environment is critical to protect your users. Learn ho...
Chris Farris
Feb 22, 2023
Announcement
Schedule snapshots of benchmarks and dashboards in Steampipe Cloud
To track changes over time it's helpful to run snapshots periodically. Now you ...
Steampipe Team
Feb 13, 2023
How To
Reuse and remix Steampipe benchmarks and dashboards
The Steampipe ecosystem provides thousands of named resources you can include i...
Jon Udell
Feb 07, 2023
How To
Find which secrets you still need to rotate in your CircleCI environment
Using Steampipe’s CircleCI plugin, you can query your project environment varia...
Chris Farris
Jan 31, 2023
Research
What's new in the CIS v2.0 benchmark for GCP
Our analysis of the latest CIS GCP recommendations.
Chris Farris
Jan 27, 2023
How To
How Steampipe translates SQL queries to API calls
A Steampipe plugin can map a Postgres WHERE clause to an API parameter. We took...
Jon Udell
Jan 26, 2023
How To
Streamlining incident response investigations with Steampipe relationship graphs
Quickly visualize and identify attack paths an attacker could leverage. Relatio...
Chris Farris
Jan 19, 2023
Announcement
v0.18.0: Relationship graphs
Discover the great new features in Steampipe's open source v0.18.0 release!
Steampipe Team
Jan 12, 2023
Announcement
Steampipe made huge leaps forward in 2022!
Here's a month-by-month review of the highlights.
Steampipe Team
Dec 21, 2022
How To
Mapping your AWS attack surface
To improve your application security program, chart the attack surface of your ...
Chris Farris
Dec 19, 2022
How To
Why build an HTTP client into a database? So you can ingest web data directly!
When there isn't a Steampipe plugin to meet your need, the Net plugin's net_htt...
Jon Udell
Dec 08, 2022
Research
The Security Practitioner's Guide to AWS re:Invent 2022
Recap of the interesting security focused announcements.
Chris Farris
Dec 06, 2022
Case Study
KPIs as code: How CMD Solutions built tools for continuous controls assurance
The magic ingredient is Steampipe's ability to define information security perf...
Jon Udell
Nov 30, 2022
Research
AWS pre:Invent 2022
We highlight AWS's interesting and impactful security announcements in the lead...
Chris Farris
Nov 23, 2022
Research
Top 3 ways to improve GitHub org security
Gain some practical tips for securing your GitHub organizations based on findin...
Chris Farris
Nov 21, 2022
Research
A deep dive into AWS Resource Explorer
We dig into AWS Resource Explorer and discover how Steampipe can use it to enha...
Chris Farris
Nov 17, 2022
Community
Steampipe Hacktoberfest 2022 Recap
New plugins, CLI improvements, blog posts, and more: How the Steampipe communit...
Steampipe Team
Nov 16, 2022
Announcement
v0.17.0: Snapshots, share with cloud, workspace profiles
Discover the great new features in Steampipe's open source v0.17.0 release!
Steampipe Team
Nov 08, 2022
Research
Keynote recap of Oracle CloudWorld 2022
If you’ve dismissed Oracle as a serious player in the cloud space, you may want...
Chris Farris
Nov 01, 2022
How To
Steampipe as software component
Why, and how, to call Steampipe from any programming language.
Jon Udell
Oct 27, 2022
Research
Security recap of 2022 Google Next and Microsoft Ignite
A rundown of the major security related announcements from Google Next and Micr...
Chris Farris
Oct 25, 2022
Research
How to approach Tailscale security and compliance
New zero-config VPNs like Tailscale disrupt how we traditionally manage endpoin...
Chris Farris
Oct 20, 2022
How To
Save and share Steampipe Cloud benchmarks and dashboards
Capture full-fidelity snapshots, then share them with others.
Jon Udell
Oct 19, 2022
How To
Enrich Splunk events with Steampipe
Splunk lookup tables can enrich AWS event data with IP-address/name mappings no...
Chris Farris
Oct 18, 2022
Case Study
Migration tracking with Steampipe
Learn how Steampipe served as the control tower for a systems migration.
François de Metz
Oct 13, 2022
Research
Can't miss Security Sessions at re:Invent 2022
The sessions, chalk talks and workshops our resident Cloud Security Architect, ...
Chris Farris
Oct 09, 2022
Research
What's new in the CIS v1.5 benchmark for Azure
Our analysis of the Azure recommendations.
Chris Farris
Oct 04, 2022
Announcement
Hacktoberfest 2022: Steampipe
Earn swag for contributions to Steampipe!
Steampipe Team
Oct 03, 2022
Community
Contributor Spotlight: Graza Andersson
He led his firm's adoption of Steampipe, and contributed a number of Steampipe ...
Jon Udell
Sep 28, 2022
Community
Contributor Spotlight: Ellis Valentiner
Learn how this data scientist works faster and smarter thanks to 'select * from...
Jon Udell
Sep 13, 2022
Shift Left Join
Consolidate your billing data across multiple AWS Organizations
Set budgets and track usage across AWS accounts using SQL.
Venugopal Rao Kumbha
Sep 07, 2022
How To
View dashboards and run benchmarks in Steampipe Cloud
It's a few clicks to install mods that use connections in your workspace.
Steampipe Team
Sep 06, 2022
Research
What's new in the CIS v1.5 benchmark for AWS
Our analysis of the five new recommendations.
Bob Tordella
Sep 02, 2022
Announcement
v0.16.0: Major memory reduction, new benchmarks, secure AWS regions
Discover the great new features in Steampipe's open source v0.16.0 release!
Steampipe Team
Sep 01, 2022
Case Study
Deepfence ThreatMapper integrates Steampipe to enhance security observability
ThreatMapper leverages contributions from the open source community to incorpor...
Steampipe and Deepfence
Aug 16, 2022
Community
Contributor Spotlight: François de Metz
Learn how this prolific open source author built his own Steampipe plugins to a...
Jon Udell
Aug 05, 2022
Case Study
Gruntwork chooses Steampipe to deliver continuous compliance as a service
Steampipe’s openness and support for AWS CIS v1.4.0 were key factors
Steampipe and Gruntwork
Jul 13, 2022
Announcement
v0.15.0: Improved usability, telemetry, 9 new plugins
Discover the great new features in Steampipe's open source v0.15.0 release!
Steampipe Team
Jun 23, 2022
Shift Left Join
Shift Left Join: Where are those IP addresses coming from?
Enrich VPC FLow Logs with geographic locations from ipstack.
Jon Udell
May 31, 2022
Announcement
v0.14.0: Benchmark dashboards, Postgres 14, ARM64
Discover the great new features in Steampipe's open source v0.14.0 release!
Steampipe Team
May 09, 2022
How To
Top 7 AWS cost-saving strategies
How to save big in AWS by cleaning up your underused resources, stale data, and...
Bob Tordella
May 05, 2022
How To
Use Steampipe to identify cost savings in AWS
An introduction to AWS Thrifty, a mod that finds underutilized AWS resources.
Jon Udell
Mar 31, 2022
How To
SQL for Google Sheets
Use the Google Sheets plugin to join spreadsheets with other tables, enforce na...
Jon Udell
Mar 30, 2022
Announcement
v0.13.0: Dashboards, ltree, 6 new plugins
Discover the great new features in Steampipe's open source v0.13.0 release!
Steampipe Team
Mar 16, 2022
Announcement
Dashboards as Code with HCL + SQL
Now you can visualize your queries, and easily build your own dashboards based ...
Steampipe Team
Mar 10, 2022
How To
SQL queries + compliance checks for Terraform files
Steampipe's Terraform plugin makes your .tf files queryable with SQL. A trio of...
Jon Udell
Feb 21, 2022
Announcement
v0.12.0: Templates for control outputs, two new formats
Discover the great new features in Steampipe's open source v0.12.0 release!
Steampipe Team
Jan 20, 2022
Announcement
v0.11.0: Faster startup and composable mods
Discover the great new features in Steampipe's open source v0.11.0 release!
Steampipe Team
Dec 16, 2021
Announcement
v0.10.0: Better concurrency and caching
Discover the great new features in Steampipe's open source v0.10.0 release!
Steampipe Team
Nov 24, 2021
Shift Left Join
Shift Left Join: Find secrets everywhere
Use Steampipe to find secrets in all the nooks and crannies of your cloud infra...
Jon Udell
Nov 10, 2021
How To
Using SQL to check spreadsheet integrity
The CSV plugin brings spreadsheet data to Steampipe. We show how to write compl...
Jon Udell
Nov 03, 2021
How To
When not to SELECT *
Steampipe can combine results from primary and subsidiary API calls. But when y...
Jon Udell
Oct 28, 2021
How To
A portrait of VSCode's external contributors
We build a data analysis pipeline to explore large GitHub repos. The same metho...
Jon Udell
Oct 26, 2021
Announcement
v0.9.0: Dynamic tables & improved control outputs
Discover the great new features in Steampipe's open source v0.9.0 release!
Steampipe Team
Oct 22, 2021
Research
A deep dive into AWS Cloud Control for asset inventory
We dig into AWS Cloud Control and explore how Steampipe can use it to enhance o...
Steamipe Team
Oct 07, 2021
How To
Using Steampipe's GitHub plugin to connect with your open source community
Review stale issues, visualize release cadence, and find external contributors
Jon Udell
Oct 04, 2021
How To
Adding a column to a Steampipe table
A small tweak to the GitHub plugin unlocks new capability
Jon Udell
Sep 19, 2021
Announcement
v0.8.0: Mod Variables, Tags & Syntax Highlighting
Discover the great new features in Steampipe's open source v0.8.0 release!
Steampipe Team
Sep 09, 2021
Announcement
v0.7.0: AWS multi-account queries & Docker support
Learn what's new in Steampipe's open source v0.7.0 release
Steampipe Team
Jul 22, 2021
Announcement
v0.6.0: Export and Filter Controls
Learn more about the new open source features in Steampipe v0.6.0
Steampipe Team
Jun 17, 2021
Research
What's new in the CIS v1.4 benchmark for AWS
Analysis of the changes in the CIS v1.4 benchmark for AWS
David Boeke
Jun 11, 2021
Announcement
v0.5.0: Controls, compliance benchmarks (CIS + PCI + custom) and lots of Hub updates
Learn more about the new open source features in Steampipe v0.5.0
Steampipe Team
May 20, 2021
Announcement
New! Named Queries, Search Paths and Workspaces
Learn more about the v0.4.0 release of the open source Steampipe CLI.
Steampipe Team
Apr 16, 2021
Shift Left Join
Shift Left Join: Find all AWS EC2 instances not using IMDSv2
Join metadata across EC2 instances and IAM instance profiles.
David Boeke
Apr 09, 2021
Shift Left Join
Shift Left Join: Using Shodan to test AWS Public IPs
Shift Left Join Security: Threat hunting AWS IPs with Shodan and SQL.
David Boeke
Apr 04, 2021
Announcement
New: Caching, Config and Improved Quals Handling
Learn more about the v0.3.0 release of the opensource Steampipe CLI.
Steampipe Team
Mar 19, 2021
Research
Analysis of Cloud Provider Market Share – 2021
Using developer interest in infrastructure as code tools to gauge popularity of...
David Boeke
Mar 08, 2021
Announcement
New: AWS Multi-Region Queries and Query Caching
Learn more about the v0.2.0 release of the opensource Steampipe CLI.
Steampipe Team
Feb 23, 2021
How To
The Hitchhiker's Guide to IAM Policy Wildcards
A quick reference to AWS IAM wildcard usage.
David Boeke
Feb 17, 2021
Case Study
Steampipe ❤ Parliament
How Steampipe leveraged Parliament to make SQL queries against IAM even more po...
David Boeke
Feb 14, 2021
Case Study
Normalizing AWS IAM Policies for Automation
Uncovering the power of SQL to analyze IAM policies via normalization of the AW...
John Smyth
Feb 11, 2021
How To
Top 10 Checks: IAM Credential Report
Learn how to generate and check your AWS IAM Credential Report for root account...
David Boeke
Feb 09, 2021
How To
Monitor compliance of the AWS CIS 1.15 benchmark.
Ensure IAM users only receive permissions via groups.
David Boeke
Jan 25, 2021
How To
Corral your untagged cloud cattle
How to quickly find cloud resources that are missing tags
David Boeke
Jan 22, 2021
Announcement
Steampipe: select * from cloud;
The extensible SQL interface to your favorite cloud APIs
Steampipe Team
Jan 21, 2021
News and Reviews
Steampipe news and reviews
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Steampipe Team
Jan 01, 2021
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