Hacktoberfest 2024: Turbot

Turbot is participating in Hacktoberfest this year!

Who is Turbot?

Turbot empowers Cloud and DevOps teams to conquer cloud complexity with:

• Steampipe - select * from cloud;
• Powerpipe - Dashboards for DevOps.
• Flowpipe - Workflow for DevOps.
• Pipes - Cloud intelligence and security.
• Guardrails - Automated cloud governance.

We manage over 200 public open source repositories where we maintain open source samples and developer tools for our Guardrails and Pipes products. As well as our open source projects Steampipe, Powerpipe, and Flowpipe and their related plugins and mod repositories.

Why contribute?

Be part of a growing community. Last year we merged over 108 commits from 57 community members. We have since grown to over 2,600 community members who are passionate engineers that love our open source projects and products as much as we do:

"I recently started using Steampipe and it has made my life about 30x better." - @bearjaws

"Steampipe is without a doubt one of the best open source tools for security compliance, operations and API orchestration." - @ashishsecdev

"The Steampipe is the best tool I have seen since Terraform." - @forty

What is Hacktoberfest?

DigitalOcean is in its 11th year organizing the overall Hacktoberfest event to celebrate the open source community. Hacktoberfest invites you to submit pull requests to open source projects. Those who submit multiple PRs will qualify for digital badges from DigitalOcean.

Turbot has marked all of our applicable public GitHub repos with the hacktoberfest topic. If we accept one or more of your PRs, they'll be labeled hacktoberfest-accepted and will count towards the DigitalOcean Hacktoberfest campaign.

Any special swag from Turbot?

Yes! In addition to the DigitalOcean event, Turbot is adding our own swag for contributions to our projects. We will offer unique Turbot stickers and t-shirts for no-code, low-code and high-code contributions.

Here are examples of contributions to earn Turbot swag. Each swag item is limited to one per person.

No-code for a Turbot Hacktoberfest sticker:

• Publish a public facing blog post featuring Steampipe, Powerpipe, Flowpipe, Turbot Pipes, or Turbot Guardrails (examples).

• Record a publicly-accessible presentation, podcast, or talk about Steampipe, Powerpipe, Flowpipe Turbot Pipes, or Turbot Guardrails.

• Submit an update to improve our Steampipe, Powerpipe, Flowpipe Turbot Pipes, or Turbot Guardrails docs.

• File a bug issue, with a detailed explanation of the testing you performed, to one of our public Turbot repos.

Low-code for a Turbot Hacktoberfest sticker:

• Raise a pull request for a bug fix or code improvement.

• Add a new column to an existing Steampipe table.

• Add a new control to an existing Powerpipe benchmark.

• Add a new pipeline to an existing Flowpipe mod.

• Add an example to one of our samples repos.

High-code for a Turbot Hacktoberfest t-shirt:

• Add a new Steampipe table to an existing plugin.

• Add a new Powerpipe dashboard to an existing Insights mod.

• Add a new Powerpipe benchmark to an existing compliance mod.

• Develop a new Steampipe plugin and publish it to Steampipe Hub - Plugins.

• Develop a new Powerpipe mod and publish it to Powerpipe Hub - Mods.

• Develop a new Flowpipe mod and publish it to Flowpipe Hub - Mods.

• Participate in a company case study published on our Turbot blog.

Inspire us! We'll also award prizes for innovative contributions that help move the community forward.

When do you get your Turbot swag?

In the week following the event we will share links to redeem your swag. Most items will arrive in November, but depending on your location and t-shirt order time may take longer.

Ready to contribute?

We can’t wait to see what incredible contributions you’ll make! If you have any questions, or need assistance, join us in our Slack community #contributors channel.