(2022-03-10) Steampipe Dashboards As Code With HCL + SQL

Steampipe Dashboards as Code with HCL + SQL. The Steampipe hub now hosts plugins that map 67 APIs to 1,247 Postgresql foreign tables.

Now, with Steampipe Dashboards, you can visualize your queries with Steampipe too.

Steampipe mods encapsulate named resources, written in HCL, of type query, control, and benchmark. In v0.13 this security-as-code approach expands to include dashboards-as-code.

But dashboards also use new resource types:

when you write dashboards using HCL + SQL, in your favorite code editor, you see results immediately.

In v0.11 we made mods composable.

v0.13 extends that model to dashboards. Each type of dashboard component can be used standalone, or as a base element that can be extended with variations.

Dashboards for live data

Steampipe isn't a data warehouse or lake.

Steampipe shines brightest when used to answer the question "What's happening right now?" in complex heterogenous cloud infrastructures.

Steampipe queries and controls have always delivered live views of your cloud infrastructure. Now you can visualize that live data on dashboards.

Components/resources are defined in their code here: looks like TypeScript and JavaScript to add new ones.