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· 3 min read

StackQL allows you to query and interact with your cloud and SaaS assets using a simple SQL framework. Use cases include CSPM, asset inventory and analysis, finops and more, as well as our IaC and ops (lifecycle management).

The three major cloud providers all offer a built-in Linux shell for executing commands using their respective CLIs; in some cases, they come with tools like terraform pre-installed. They are pre-authorized with your credentials in the cloud console for the user you authenticated with.

Now you can easily use stackql - a unified analytics and IaC dev tool - in all major cloud providers' built-in shells, using cloud shell scripts packaged with the stackql Linux binary (available from v0.5.587 onwards).

StackQL is particularly useful for asynchronously querying across regions in AWS, projects in Google, or resource groups in Azure, which is challenging to do via the CLIs. For example:

SELECT region, COUNT(*) as num_functions
FROM aws.lambda.functions
WHERE region IN (
'us-east-1','us-east-2','us-west-1','us-west-2',
'ap-south-1','ap-northeast-3','ap-northeast-2',
'ap-southeast-1','ap-southeast-2','ap-northeast-1',
'ca-central-1','eu-central-1','eu-west-1',
'eu-west-2','eu-west-3','eu-north-1','sa-east-1')
GROUP BY region;

Additionally, you could authenticate to another provider from one cloud shell simultaneously and run multi-cloud inventory commands. For example:

SELECT 
name,
SPLIT_PART(machineType, '/', -1) as instance_type,
'google' as provider
FROM google.compute.instances
WHERE project IN ('myproject1','myproject2')
UNION
SELECT
instanceId as name,
instanceType as instance_type,
'aws' as provider
FROM aws.ec2.instances
WHERE region IN (
'us-east-1','us-east-2','us-west-1','us-west-2',
'ap-south-1','ap-northeast-3','ap-northeast-2',
'ap-southeast-1','ap-southeast-2','ap-northeast-1',
'ca-central-1','eu-central-1','eu-west-1',
'eu-west-2','eu-west-3','eu-north-1','sa-east-1');

Getting Started

To get started with StackQL in your preferred cloud shell environment, download the StackQL package using the following command:

curl -L https://bit.ly/stackql-zip -O \
&& unzip stackql-zip

This command downloads the StackQL package, unzips it, and sets the appropriate permissions. From there, you can use our tailored scripts for AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure to integrate StackQL seamlessly into your cloud shell environment.

Using StackQL in the AWS Cloud Shell

Run the stackql-aws-cloud-shell.sh as follows to use the StackQL command shell within the AWS cloud shell:

sh stackql-aws-cloud-shell.sh

An example is shown here:

aws-cloud-shell-example

You can also run stackql exec commands using the stackql-aws-cloud-shell.sh script; for instance, this command will write a CSV file for the results of a query that could be downloaded from the Cloud Shell.

sh stackql-aws-cloud-shell.sh exec \
--output csv --outfile instances.csv \
"SELECT region, instanceType FROM aws.ec2.instances WHERE region IN ('us-east-1')"

Additionally, you can supply an IAM role using the --role-arn argument to assume another role for your query or mutation operation, an example is shown here:

sh stackql-aws-cloud-shell.sh \
--role-arn arn:aws:iam::824532806693:role/SecurityReviewerRole exec \
--infile query.iql \
--output csv --outfile output.csv

Using StackQL in the Azure Cloud Shell

Run the stackql-azure-cloud-shell.sh as follows to open a StackQL command shell from the Azure Cloud Shell:

sh stackql-azure-cloud-shell.sh

An example is shown here:

azure-cloud-shell-example

Similar to the AWS script, you can also invoke stackql exec as well, an example is shown here:

sh stackql-azure-cloud-shell.sh exec \
--output csv --outfile instances_by_location.csv \
"SELECT location, COUNT(*) as num_instances FROM azure.compute.virtual_machines WHERE resourceGroupName = 'stackql-ops-cicd-dev-01' AND subscriptionId = '631d1c6d-2a65-43e7-93c2-688bfe4e1468' GROUP BY location"

Using StackQL in the Google Cloud Shell

Run the stackql-google-cloud-shell.sh as shown below to launch a StackQL command shell from within the google cloud shell:

sh stackql-google-cloud-shell.sh

An example is shown here:

google-cloud-shell-example

As with the other two providers, you can run exec commands following the example below:

sh stackql-google-cloud-shell.sh exec \
--output csv --outfile instances.csv \
"SELECT name, status FROM google.compute.instances WHERE project = 'stackql-demo'"

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· One min read

StackQL allows you to query and interact with your cloud and SaaS assets using a simple SQL framework. Use cases include CSPM, asset inventory and analysis, finops and more, as well as our IaC and ops (lifecycle management).

Excited to announce the general availability of the latest StackQL providers for Azure. Includes expanded resource and method coverage including all of the latest Resource Manager services. The StackQL Azure provider catalog now includes:

  • azure - core Azure RM services
  • azure_extras - additional Azure services
  • azure_isv - Azure Native ISV software and services (like Databricks, Datadog, Confluent, Astro and more)
  • azure_stack - Azure Hybrid app framework

by the numbers...

ProviderTotal ServicesTotal MethodsTotal Resources
azure195138413920
azure_extras381164339
azure_isv20906253
azure18470142

More Data Plane services like Azure Container Registry coming as well, stay tuned!

· One min read

A new version of the Azure provider for StackQL plus additional built-in functions are available now.

Version 0.3.0 of the Azure provider for StackQL is available now. This update includes support for extended resource properties, along with support for Hybrid Azure Kubernetes Services. The Azure provider allows you to query across your Azure estate for cloud security posture, asset inventory, analysis and reporting, finops, sysops, and more - all using a natural query language (SQL) and a natural object mapping.

In addition, we have announced the release of several new built-in functions, including SPLIT_PART() - to split a string by a delimiter and extract a single element, additional unicode functions, and expanded regular expression support, including REGEXP_REPLACE() and more.

An example StackQL query using the split_part() function with the azure v0.3.0 provider is shown here:

SELECT name,  
split_part(id, '/', 3) as subscription,
split_part(id, '/', 5) as resource_group,
json_extract(properties, '$.hardwareProfile.vmSize') as vm_size
FROM azure.compute.virtual_machines WHERE resourceGroupName = 'stackql-ops-cicd-dev-01' AND subscriptionId = '242c6a2d-16f9-4912-90f6-59b1cf85509d';

You can find more information on the latest Azure provider here.

· One min read

Proud to announce the release of the Microsoft Azure provider for StackQL.

StackQL allows you to query and interact with your cloud and SaaS assets using a simple SQL framework

The StackQL provider for Azure provides key visibility across the Azure estate for CSPM, asset inventory and analysis, finops and more, as well as our IaC and ops (lifecycle management) functionality.

Created using the Autorest project using Azure specification docs from the azure-rest-api-specs repository, the StackQL azure provider exposes 230 services, 2,450 resources (of which 1,985 or 81% are available using SELECT statements) and 10,140 methods in total.

Core services are available in the azure provider, all other services are available using the azure_extras provider.

We will be adding integrated interactive authentication, for now this is cli/sdk based, all of the documentation is here.

Give it a test run and let us know what you think!