Support for Raspberry PI

[foteye]

Thought I'd quickly post here before submitting issue. Clean install on latest Raspberry PI OS (tried both x86 & x64) unable to execute after error in picture below.

It could be my own fault, but I'm just following the Linux instructions so I can try this out :) If anyone can shed some light that would be great.

[e-gineer]

Thanks @foteye for trying Steampipe. And, as a fun fact, I shared the Vic Bitter ads internally when discussing the "get cloud work done" theme for the website :-)

Unfortunately we don't have a compilation of Steampipe for the Raspberry Pi architecture yet. Steampipe relies on a Postgres Foreign Data Wrapper which is a CGO based combination of the go code and Postgres C code (see https://github.com/turbot/steampipe-postgres-fdw), so unfortunately doing compilations for other platforms is more complicated than a straight go build. I believe we now have requests for Mac ARM #253, Windows WSL ARM #291 and Raspberry Pi - so it looks like some demand has accumulated there!

Any specific reason you are targeting Raspberry Pi? Or is it just a convenient Linux machine for testing?

[foteye]

Thanks for the detailed reply, that explains everything! Yes it was just a convenient linux machine I had in the home that I could use for testing out some ideas. Are there any distributions of Linux you recommend? I'm sure I can request a VM no problem from work.

[e-gineer]

Any Linux on AMD64 should work (e.g. Ubuntu). You can also use Mac OSX (AMD64) or Windows Subsystem for Linux.

Good luck, and please keep the feedback coming!

[dboeke]

Are there any distributions of Linux you recommend?

I have personally tested on Ubuntu 18/20, Redhat 8 and Amazon Linux 1/2

[LosAlamosAl]

Another data point for you. Won't install inside a Docker container (Debian Buster) on an M1 Mac. Linux/ARM would be nice for those of us developing with Docker on Mac M1s (e.g. using VS Code Remote). Looks like a great tool--looking forward to using it!

[bgshacklett]

It's worth noting that ARM is beginning to find popularity in the cloud provider space, as well. AWS has been pushing their ARM instances hard for what feels like a year, or so, now.