awesome-kubernetes/v2-docs/cloud-asset-inventory.md

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Curated, AI-ranked Cloud Asset Inventory resources for the 2026 Cloud Native architect: top-tier tools, guides and references (Architectural Foundations).

Cloud Asset Inventory

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Cloud Infrastructure and Orchestration

Asset Management and Governance

Cloud Analytics

• (2026) cloudquery.io: Cloud Query: The open-source cloud asset inventory powered by SQL [GO CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — An open-source high-performance security and asset discovery tool that parses cloud configuration APIs into standard SQL databases. Enables infrastructure teams to perform complex auditing, compliance mapping, and security reporting.
• (2026) steampipe [GO CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — An extensible open-source command-line framework that translates APIs and cloud inventories into virtual SQL tables. Enables DevOps engineers to construct real-time dashboards and audit configuration profiles on multi-cloud hosts.
• (2023) cloudquery.io: Building an Open-Source Cloud Asset Inventory with CloudQuery and Grafana [SQL CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] [GUIDE] — Step-by-step implementation guide detailing how to ingest cloud infrastructure state via CloudQuery and visualize data patterns within Grafana. Outlines pipeline construction, scheduling, and database optimization.
• (2022) Querying AWS at scale across APIs, Regions, and accounts [GO CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Enterprise guide mapping performance configurations designed to query massive multi-account, multi-region AWS environments. Analyzes API latency limitations, concurrency protocols, and security audits utilizing SQL query abstractions.

Storage and Databases

Distributed Block Storage

• (2026) ==Ceph: A Distributed Object, Block, and File Storage Platform== ⭐ 16707 [C++ CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 [DE FACTO STANDARD] — An enterprise-grade, highly scalable distributed storage ecosystem providing object, block, and file system storage on a single unified cluster. Widely adopted as the primary storage layer backing cloud platforms and Kubernetes orchestration (Rook-Ceph).

Infrastructure As Code

Architecture

Diagrams

• (2024) CloudCanvas - Diagramming for Cloud Infrastructure [TYPESCRIPT CONTENT] [EMERGING] — CloudCanvas is an emerging interactive workspace tool tailored for designing cloud topologies and auto-generating infrastructure-as-code manifests. By linking architectural nodes directly to API-driven configurations, it helps bridge the gap between architectural diagramming and operational execution.

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