The Mastodon plugin is now available on the Steampipe Hub
When Twitter changed hands last November I switched to Mastodon; ever since I’ve enjoyed happier and more productive social networking. To enhance my happiness and productivity I began working on a...
View ArticleMigrating Mastodon lists
My original Mastodon account was on mastodon.social. I chose it because it’s the largest instance, it’s operated by the developers of the service, and it runs the reference implementation of the...
View ArticleWhen the rubber duck talks back
I’d been needing to refactor the pagination logic in the Mastodon plugin for Steampipe. After a couple of abortive tries, I took another run at it this week with the help of the latest generation of...
View ArticleFlowpipe: A workflow engine for devops scripters
If you define your infrastructure as code, shouldn't your workflow automation use the same as-code approach? That's how Flowpipe works. Define workflows with HCL (HashiCorp configuration language),...
View ArticleSteampipe unbundled: From cloud APIs to your database
We’ve seen how Steampipe can unify access to APIs, drive metasearch, enforce KPIs as code, and detect configuration drift. The enabling plugins were, until recently, tightly bound to the Steampipe...
View ArticleSteampipe dashboards and benchmarks for your data
In Steampipe unbundled we showed how its plugins, which originally worked only with the foreign data wrapper loaded into Steampipe’s batteries-included Postgres, are now also available as stand-alone...
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