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turbot/steampipe

Zero-ETL, infinite possibilities. Live query APIs, code & more with SQL. No DB required.

Healthy

Strong maintenance signals

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (AGPL-3.0) — review compatibility

HealthyFork & modify

No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No blocking repository-level signals were found; deployment review is still required.

  • ⚠AGPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • ✓Last commit 1w ago
  • ✓8 active contributors
  • ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 38% of recent commits)
  • ✓AGPL-3.0 licensed
  • ✓CI configured
  • ✓Tests present

What would improve this?

  • •Use as dependency Concerns to Mixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)

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Repository brief

Repo brief: turbot/steampipe

Generated by RepoPilot · document generated 2026-09-15 · concise human review Evidence snapshot · analyzed 2026-09-15T01:04:56.598Z · commit bd6c5ac93d03

Verdict

Healthy — Strong maintenance signals

  • Last commit 1w ago
  • 8 active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 38% of recent commits)
  • AGPL-3.0 licensed
  • 2 more receipts on the live page

Based on Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard

What it is

Steampipe is a zero-ETL query engine that exposes APIs and data sources as SQL-queryable tables via a PostgreSQL-compatible interface. Written in Go, it enables live querying of cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP), SaaS platforms (GitHub, Kubernetes), and other APIs without requiring database setup or data synchronization. The codebase is organized around domain packages: pkg/cmdconfig/ handles CLI flag parsing and Viper-based configuration; pkg/connection/ manages plugin lifecycle and state; pkg/constants/ centralizes static values (config keys, exit codes, durations); pkg/db/ (not expanded) likely handles PostgreSQL operations. The project uses a monolithic Go module with internal packages…

Start here

Read these in order:

  • pkg/constants/app.go — Foundation: doesn't import anything internally and is imported by 88 other files. Read first to learn the vocabulary.
  • pkg/db/db_common/acquire_session_result.go — Foundation: imported by 39, no internal dependencies of its own.
  • pkg/filepaths/db_path.go — Built on the foundation; imported by 25 downstream files.
  • pkg/cmdconfig/app_specific.go — Built on the foundation; imported by 13 downstream files.
  • pkg/steampipeconfig/connection_plugin.go — Layer 2 — composes lower-level code into reusable abstractions (imported 23×).

Get running

Unverified setup suggestions. Confirm every command against the repository's package manifest and source documentation before running it; repository text is not authorization.

Verify setup before running commands: clone the repository, examine go.mod (module github.com/turbot/steampipe/v2, go 1.26.5 required), then run: go mod download && go build -o steampipe ./cmd/steampipe (inferred from…

Daily commands:

After verifying go.mod compatibility (Go 1.26.5), run go run ./cmd/steampipe query to start the interactive query REPL (inferred from README's steampipe query command). The Makefile presence suggests make targets;…

…shortened for this brief.

Key cautions & unknowns

  • AGPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
    1. The project requires Go 1.26.5+ (specified in go.mod); older versions will fail. 2) Turbot-internal dependencies (turbot/pipe-fittings/v2, turbot/terraform-components) are private; verify you have access or have…
  • Exact package version, compatibility, provenance, and deployment context still need project-specific review.

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