Using Steampipe in Jenkins

Jenkins provides a hosted environment in which you can build, test, and deploy software. This happens in a Jenkins Pipeline. Let's use a pipeline to install Steampipe, then install a plugin and run a query.

Installing Steampipe in a Jenkins pipeline

To run scripts, you first create a Jenkinsfile which is a text file that contains the definition of a Jenkins Pipeline. Here's an example that installs Steampipe.

pipeline {
    agent any

    stages {
        stage("Install") {
            steps {
                sh "curl -s -L https://github.com/turbot/steampipe/releases/latest/download/steampipe_linux_amd64.tar.gz | tar -xzf -"
                echo "installed steampipe"
            }
        }
    }
}

Running Steampipe in a Jenkins pipeline

In order to run Steampipe commands, we will first install the Hacker News plugin.

pipeline {
    agent any

    stages {
        stage("Install") {
            steps {
                sh "curl -s -L https://github.com/turbot/steampipe/releases/latest/download/steampipe_linux_amd64.tar.gz | tar -xzf -"
                echo "installed steampipe"
                sh './steampipe plugin install hackernews'
            }
        }
    }
}

Next, we'll update the file to include a query to fetch the top 5 stories from hackernews_top.

pipeline {
    agent any

    stages {
        stage("Install") {
            steps {
                sh "curl -s -L https://github.com/turbot/steampipe/releases/latest/download/steampipe_linux_amd64.tar.gz | tar -xzf -"
                echo "installed steampipe"
                sh './steampipe plugin install hackernews'
                sh './steampipe query "select id, title, score from hackernews_top order by score desc limit 5"'
            }
        }
    }
}

That's it! Now you can use any of Steampipe's plugins and mods to enrich your Jenkins pipelines.