How Steampipe works.

Steampipe queries cloud services and dynamically builds ephemeral tables using PostgreSQL's Foreign Data Wrapper extensions.

Plugins are what Steampipe uses to define the schema for remote resources. Every supported service or infrastructure platform has a plugin that defines which tables are available and performs API calls to query those resources.

Mods are used to organize dashboards, benchmarks, controls and queries into a hierarchy for collaboration and reporting aggregation.

The Steampipe Hub makes it easy to extend steampipe. To use a plugin from the Hub, just add it to your local configuration using:

steampipe plugin install {name}