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Dev tools · March 8, 2023

IaSQL – Open-source tool to manage cloud infra as data in PostgreSQL

Hi all, IaSQL maintains a two-way connection between an unmodified PostgreSQL database and an AWS account. IaSQL at it's core is a diffing system between the cloud infrastructure state and the desired state that is used to execute AWS SDK calls to update your infrastructure. But we also use the same mechanism to take changes in your infrastructure, perhaps made via the AWS console or an IaC tool like Terraform, and pull that into your IaSQL database. We use an audit log tracking who made changes where to determine which way the synchronization process goes, and this gives us a lot of…

IaSQL – Open-source tool to manage cloud infra as data in PostgreSQL launched on March 8, 2023 with 14 votes, #1,802 of 5,007 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.

In plain words

IaSQL is an open-source tool that synchronizes AWS cloud infrastructure with a PostgreSQL database in both directions. It uses a diffing system to detect changes in either the cloud or the database, then applies updates accordingly. An audit log tracks who made changes and where, determining sync direction. Users can query database tables to verify actual cloud state before making changes, and manage infrastructure through SQL statements instead of traditional infrastructure-as-code tools.

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From the sources

Cloud Infrastructure as data in PostgreSQL. Contribute to alantech/iasql development by creating an account on GitHub.

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hi all, IaSQL maintains a two-way connection between an unmodified PostgreSQL database and an AWS account. IaSQL at it's core is a diffing system between the cloud infrastructure state and the desired state that is used to execute AWS SDK calls to update your infrastructure. But we also use the same mechanism to take…

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