View dashboards and run benchmarks in Turbot Pipes
It's a few clicks to install mods that use connections in your workspace.
Steampipe mods are packaged sets of resources
-- named queries, controls, benchmarks, or dashboards -- that work with the
database tables provided by a plugin. Users
of Steampipe CLI install mods by cloning the mods' GitHub repos and invoking
steampipe check or steampipe dashboard.
In Turbot Pipes the process is much simpler.
Get started
If you haven't already installed the
Net plugin, click
Settings -> Connections -> Add Connection and choose Net.
Click Create a new connection -> Create.
Then click Add to workspace and link the connection to your workspace.
The Settings -> Connections tab in this Turbot Pipes workspace shows that
one plugin is installed.
The Settings -> Mods tab shows that no mods are installed.
Click Install Mods to view a scrollable list of official mods that work with
the connections you've defined.
Net Insights is
recommended.
Click Install Mods to install the latest version of Net Insights.
Run a Net Insights benchmark
Click Dashboards to view the benchmarks and dashboards provide by the mods
you've installed.
They're initially grouped by mod name. Search for Net Insights, and click
DNS Best Practices to run that benchmark. Turbot Pipes reports progress for
each group of controls. Expand a group to see progress for the individual
controls in the group, and to view results.
Note that the default domains checked by the benchmark are microsoft.com and
github.com. To check different domains, click
Settings -> Mods -> net_insights to open an editor that knows about the
variables you can set for this mod. Enter some other domains, for example
whitehouse.gov and gov.uk, to see how they fare on the benchmark!
Run an AWS Insights dashboard
If you haven't already installed the
AWS plugin, click
Settings -> Connections -> Add Connection, choose AWS, and authenticate
using one of the available methods: Cross-Account Role or Access Key.
As before, click Settings -> Mods to select from the list of mods that work
with the AWS plugin. Select AWS Insights and click Install Mods.
Some of the dashboards provided by AWS Insights focus on S3 resources. To find
them, search for aws s3.
Click AWS S3 Bucket Dashboard to view that dashboard.
That's it! It's easy to install mods that work with the connections in your workspace, then use them to check your cloud resources for compliance with security standards or visualize them on dashboards.
Want to try this for yourself? Turbot Pipes is available in preview, you can
sign up at pipes.turbot.com. We're always eager
for feedback; you can tell us about your experience in our
Slack community's #pipes channel.