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Show HN: Drupal on AWS interactive architecture diagram

32 points by Veuxdo 8y ago

maxehmookau 8y ago
I'm less interested in the Drupal aspect of this and much more interested in the tool used to generate these diagrams!
- WildGreenLeave 8y ago
  I think Ilograph[0] is what you are looking for, they even have this exact demo on their homepage. Not affiliated with them in any way. :) [0]: https://www.ilograph.com/ https://www.ilograph.com/ Edit: only after posting this I noticed the domain of the submission, I'm pretty sure it's them :-)
  - cakkineni 8y ago
    thank you; the library is awesome.
- deleted 8y ago
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- aequitas 8y ago
  I'm more interested in the language/DSL behind the diagrams. It can look really nice, but if there is no easy/trivial way to model everything it you might as well just throw stuff together in HTML/CSS.
  - Veuxdo 8y ago
    Hey, dev here. It's a json document of resources and perspectives that reference them... not trivial per se but you don't have to do any manual layout. If you check the source you can find this example (though it is minified). I hope to have in-line editing for the beta, but that's a little ways away.
- Veuxdo 8y ago
  Hey, what's up, I'm the developer of ilograph (so WildGreenLeave is correct). Glad you find it interesting! It's still in early stages, so I'm definitely interested in feedback to make it better. Also, if there's something you'd like to see modeled next, let me know! I haven't decided on the next demo subject yet.
  - noobiemcfoob 8y ago
    I'm really excited for ilograph! It looks great and seems like a modern alternative to graphviz!
    - Veuxdo 8y ago
      Awesome! Be sure to sign up for the beta if you haven't already :)
  - maxehmookau 8y ago
    It looks badass. I spend my life trying to diagram AWS topologies from different perspectives (SGs, HTTP flows, etc.) and this looks _exactly_ what I need. Super happy to help you user test if you need people. Drop me a message if you do!
mig4ng 8y ago
Great tool to generate diagrams, interested as well to see how easy/hard is making them. I suppose this will be a commercial product (probably a SaaS), but have you thought of making it open source with a commercial option also available (e.g. Ghost[0]) [0] https://ghost.org/ https://ghost.org/
danielneri 8y ago
This looks like a really interesting tool. I've used LucidChart to generate similar diagrams before, so interested in seeing if this is easier to put together. I particularly like the interactivity.
andrenotgiant 8y ago
I like the concept of dynamically reorienting the diagram for different perspectives, because trying to pack everything into one visual gets overwhelming. cloudcraft.co is another tool that takes a more literal approach to AWS architecture diagrams, someone built an add-on that purportedly allows you to export your diagram as Terraform configurations https://medium.com/devopslinks/modules-tf-convert-visual-aws-diagram-into-terraform-configurations-e61fb0574b10 https://medium.com/devopslinks/modules-tf-convert-visual-aws...

32 points by Veuxdo 8y ago

maxehmookau 8y ago

I'm less interested in the Drupal aspect of this and much more interested in the tool used to generate these diagrams!

WildGreenLeave 8y ago
I think Ilograph[0] is what you are looking for, they even have this exact demo on their homepage. Not affiliated with them in any way. :) [0]: https://www.ilograph.com/ https://www.ilograph.com/ Edit: only after posting this I noticed the domain of the submission, I'm pretty sure it's them :-)
- cakkineni 8y ago
  thank you; the library is awesome.
deleted 8y ago
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aequitas 8y ago
I'm more interested in the language/DSL behind the diagrams. It can look really nice, but if there is no easy/trivial way to model everything it you might as well just throw stuff together in HTML/CSS.
- Veuxdo 8y ago
  Hey, dev here. It's a json document of resources and perspectives that reference them... not trivial per se but you don't have to do any manual layout. If you check the source you can find this example (though it is minified). I hope to have in-line editing for the beta, but that's a little ways away.
Veuxdo 8y ago
Hey, what's up, I'm the developer of ilograph (so WildGreenLeave is correct). Glad you find it interesting! It's still in early stages, so I'm definitely interested in feedback to make it better. Also, if there's something you'd like to see modeled next, let me know! I haven't decided on the next demo subject yet.
- noobiemcfoob 8y ago
  I'm really excited for ilograph! It looks great and seems like a modern alternative to graphviz!
  - Veuxdo 8y ago
    Awesome! Be sure to sign up for the beta if you haven't already :)
- maxehmookau 8y ago
  It looks badass. I spend my life trying to diagram AWS topologies from different perspectives (SGs, HTTP flows, etc.) and this looks _exactly_ what I need. Super happy to help you user test if you need people. Drop me a message if you do!

mig4ng 8y ago

Great tool to generate diagrams, interested as well to see how easy/hard is making them. I suppose this will be a commercial product (probably a SaaS), but have you thought of making it open source with a commercial option also available (e.g. Ghost[0]) [0] https://ghost.org/ https://ghost.org/

danielneri 8y ago

This looks like a really interesting tool. I've used LucidChart to generate similar diagrams before, so interested in seeing if this is easier to put together. I particularly like the interactivity.

andrenotgiant 8y ago

I like the concept of dynamically reorienting the diagram for different perspectives, because trying to pack everything into one visual gets overwhelming. cloudcraft.co is another tool that takes a more literal approach to AWS architecture diagrams, someone built an add-on that purportedly allows you to export your diagram as Terraform configurations https://medium.com/devopslinks/modules-tf-convert-visual-aws-diagram-into-terraform-configurations-e61fb0574b10 https://medium.com/devopslinks/modules-tf-convert-visual-aws...