sqliac-snowflake 0.1.8

Snowflake adapter for SQLIaC — a Terraform alternative for SQL databases without a state file.

sqliac-snowflake

Snowflake adapter for SQLIaC — a Terraform alternative for SQL databases that uses no state file.

This package provides the Snowflake database connector and credential handling so SQLIaC can query Snowflake's live state and execute DDL to reconcile your declared resource definitions.

Installation

pip install sqliac-snowflake

This also installs sqliac (the CLI and core engine) and snowflake-connector-python.

Quick Start

Credentials

SQLIaC looks for Snowflake credentials in two places, in order of precedence:

1. Environment variables (recommended)

export SNOWFLAKE_ACCOUNT="my_account"
export SNOWFLAKE_USER="my_user"
export SNOWFLAKE_PASSWORD="my_password"
export SNOWFLAKE_WAREHOUSE="my_warehouse"
# Optional:
export SNOWFLAKE_DATABASE="my_db"
export SNOWFLAKE_SCHEMA="my_schema"
export SNOWFLAKE_ROLE="my_role"

2. Configuration file .sqliac/provider/credentials.toml

[snowflake]
account = "my_account"
user = "my_user"
password = "my_password"
warehouse = "my_warehouse"

Environment variables take precedence. Run sqliac init to scaffold this file.

Private key authentication

Set SNOWFLAKE_PRIVATE_KEY_PATH (relative path inside .sqliac/provider/) or SNOWFLAKE_PRIVATE_KEY (PEM string), optionally with SNOWFLAKE_PRIVATE_KEY_PASSPHRASE:

export SNOWFLAKE_ACCOUNT="my_account"
export SNOWFLAKE_USER="my_user"
export SNOWFLAKE_PRIVATE_KEY_PATH="rsa_key.p8"

Using SQLIaC with Snowflake

# Scaffold a project with Snowflake examples
sqliac init

# Configure your credentials and edit definitions/
# then preview and apply:

sqliac apply --dry-run
sqliac apply

The init command creates Snowflake-ready example templates for database, schema, and table resources under .sqliac/provider/.

Provider config

The adapter is registered via the sqliac.adapters entry point group. Your .sqliac/provider/config.toml should start with a top-level [snowflake] section:

[snowflake.database.ddl_command]
create = "CREATE OR ALTER"
alter  = "CREATE OR ALTER"
drop   = "DROP"

[snowflake.database.ddl_context]
object_name = "MODELING"
transient = false
data_retention_time_in_days = 1
wait_time = 0
[snowflake.database.ddl_context.depends_on]

API

The adapter exposes three classes, all available from the top-level package:

from sqliac_snowflake import SnowflakeAdapter, SnowflakeCredentials, SnowflakeConnectionManager

Class	Role
SnowflakeAdapter	Concrete BaseAdapter — executes queries and manages connections
SnowflakeCredentials	Frozen dataclass — validates and stores account, user, password, warehouse, etc.
SnowflakeConnectionManager	Thread-safe per-thread connection pool with keypair and password auth

All three are registered via the entry point sqliac.adapters / snowflake and resolved automatically by the SQLIaC CLI. You don't need to import them directly unless building custom tooling.

Supported credential fields

Field	Required	Env var
account	Yes	SNOWFLAKE_ACCOUNT
user	Yes	SNOWFLAKE_USER
password	(one of)	SNOWFLAKE_PASSWORD
private_key_path	(one of)	SNOWFLAKE_PRIVATE_KEY_PATH
private_key	(one of)	SNOWFLAKE_PRIVATE_KEY
private_key_passphrase	No	SNOWFLAKE_PRIVATE_KEY_PASSPHRASE
warehouse	No	SNOWFLAKE_WAREHOUSE
database	No	SNOWFLAKE_DATABASE
schema	No	SNOWFLAKE_SCHEMA
role	No	SNOWFLAKE_ROLE

License

MIT — see the sqliac package for details.