pipeline

A pipeline is a sequence of steps to do work. Pipelines may define:

Steps (step) to perform specific actions, such as running a query, making an http request, or running another pipeline. By default, steps will run in parallel but Flowpipe will automatically serialize steps based on implicit (HCL reference) or explicit (depends_on) dependencies.
Parameters (param) to allow you to pass arguments explicitly or from a trigger.
Outputs (output) to return data or status.

You can run a pipeline manually from the command line or define a trigger that will start the pipeline in response to an event when running flowpipe server.

pipeline "get_astronauts" {
  param "url" {
    type    = string
    default = "http://api.open-notify.org/astros"
  }

  step "http" "whos_in_space" {
      url    = param.url
      method = "get"
  }

  output "people_in_space" {
    value = step.http.whos_in_space.response_body.people[*].name
  }
}

Arguments

Argument	Type	Optional?	Description
`description`	String	Optional	A description of the pipeline.
`documentation`	String	Optional	A markdown string containing a long form description, used as documentation for the mod on hub.steampipe.io.
`max_concurrency`	Number	Optional	The maximum number of instances of the pipeline that can be run at a time. By default, there is no limit.
`param`	Block	Optional	A param block that defines the parameters that can be passed into the pipeline.
`output`	Block	Optional	one or more output blocks to return values from the pipeline
`step`	Block	Optional	one or more steps to run
`tags`	Map	Optional	A map of key:value metadata for the benchmark, used to categorize, search, and filter. The structure is up to the mod author and varies by benchmark and provider.
`title`	String	Optional	Display title for the pipeline.

Attributes (Read-Only)

Attribute	Type	Description
`errors`	List	List of error objects from the pipeline.
`output`	map	map of outputs defined and set by the pipeline.

Parameters

One or more param blocks may optionally be used in a pipeline to define parameters that the pipeline accepts.

param "url" {
  type    = string
  default = "http://api.open-notify.org/astros"
}

You can then use the parameter value in the pipeline with the param object:

step "http" "whos_in_space" {
    url    = param.url
    method = "get"
}

Arguments

Name	Type	Description
`default`	Any	A value to use if no argument is passed for this parameter when the query is run.
`description`	String	A description of the parameter.
`type`	String	The data type of the parameter: `string`, `number`, `bool`, `list`, `map`, `any` (default `any`).

Outputs

Output values make information from your pipeline run available to the caller. Output values are similar to return values in programming languages.

output "people_in_space" {
  value = step.http.whos_in_space.response_body.people[*].name
}

Arguments

Name	Type	Description
`description`	String	A description of the output.
`value`	Any	The value to export. (required)