v1.0 for Steampipe, Powerpipe, Flowpipe, 116 plugins, and 44 mods
Today we're promoting all three of Turbot's open source components — Steampipe, Powerpipe, and Flowpipe — to v1.0.0. It's a major milestone on a journey that began with the launch of Steampipe v0.1.0 on January 21, 2021, along with an initial suite of 13 plugins featured on the then-new Steampipe Hub.
The first version of Steampipe's most popular plugin, AWS, provided 68 tables, already a formidable collection that has since grown to nearly 500. In the inaugural blog post we wrote:
Steampipe, a new open source project from Turbot, enables cloud pros (e.g. software developers, operations engineers and security teams) to query their favorite cloud services with SQL. It has quickly become one of our favorite tools in-house and we hope it finds a way into your toolbox as well.
The core query capability provided by Steampipe plugins was soon augmented with a suite of mods that focused, initially, on compliance checks for AWS, Azure, GCP, and a few others. These mods wrapped Steampipe queries in HCL-defined controls and benchmarks tailored to the Center for Internet Security recommendations. Today we offer compliance mods for Audit Manager Control Tower, AWS Foundational Security Best Practices, CIS, FedRAMP, FFIEC, GDPR, HIPAA, NIST, PCI, SOC 2, and many more, along with mods for asset inventory/insights, shift-left scanning, and cost management.
