Allow Prowler to be installed just for an specific provider

[jfagoagas]

New feature motivation

We want to allow Prowler to be installed just for an specific provider without the need of installing all the providers dependencies.

Currently the package installed contains the evaluations for all the providers regardless of where exactly the scans are going to be run. e.g. If a user wants to use Prowler to scan an AWS environment, the install process should skip installing the relevant checks for Azure, GCP or other providers.

This will help reduce the install size and also speed up the installation times.

Solution Proposed

A flag / parameter can be added that the user can supply at install time, like pip install prowler[<provider>].

Describe alternatives you've considered

Workaround to install Prowler in the AWS CloudShell service due to the storage limitation:

pip install "alive-progress==3.1.5" "awsipranges==0.3.3" "colorama==0.4.6" "dash==2.17.1" "dash-bootstrap-components==1.6.0" "detect-secrets==1.5.0" "jsonschema==4.23.0" "numpy==2.0.0" "pandas==2.2.2" "py-ocsf-models==0.1.1" "pydantic==1.10.15"  "pytz==2024.1" "schema==0.7.7" "shodan==1.31.0" "tabulate==0.9.0" "tzlocal==5.2" "slack-sdk==3.31.0"
pip install --no-deps prowler

Please, take into account the libraries versions installed.

Thanks to @jchrisfarris 🙌

Additional context

No response

[agasthik]

Thanks for promptly accepting this feature request after our Slack exchange

[abant07]

Hi @jfagoagas

Would I be able to work on this issue?

Thanks,
Amogh

[sectoramen]

boto3 and kubernetes are also needed and shodan is not needed unless you want it. I was able to run it in a CloudShell with:

python -m venv ~/.venv
source ~/.venv/bin/activate
pip install --no-cache alive-progress awsipranges boto3 colorama dash dash-bootstrap-components detect-secrets jsonschema kubernetes numpy pandas py-ocsf-models pydantic pytz schema slack-sdk tabulate tzlocal
pip install --no-cache --no-deps prowler
prowler aws --region $AWS_REGION

If you really need to save space do not start a venv.

[agasthik]

@MrCloudSec @jfagoagas - I wanted to check in on this feature request and see if there are any plans to implement this soon

[jfagoagas]

Hello @agasthik, I can't give you an ETA about this but we'd like to work on it.