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Re: Show HN: Cloudcraft – Create AWS diagrams

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Post by teddythetwig » Sat, Dec 12, 2015, 5:35 PM UTC

Amazon recently introduced a tool similar to this called cloudformations designer.

Re: Show HN: Cloudcraft – Create AWS diagrams

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Post by jon-wood » Sat, Dec 12, 2015, 5:43 PM UTC

andreasklinger wrote: post #25

Rezo wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was thinking of offering features for larger teams like collaborative editing and sync with a live AWS environment as addons in the future if it proves popular. Drawing diagrams is and will remain free.

you could add basic alert/load/utilization analytics and offer it as it management (or just big tv in room) overview dashboard.

This would be a fantastic feature, and should be pretty doable considering how much Cloudwatch exposes in the way of metrics.

Re: Show HN: Cloudcraft – Create AWS diagrams

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Post by omginternets » Sat, Dec 12, 2015, 5:48 PM UTC

I like the idea a lot, but I'm not a fan of the fancy 3d visualization. Is there a way to have a simpler (2D) representation?

Re: Show HN: Cloudcraft – Create AWS diagrams

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Post by mikejholly » Sat, Dec 12, 2015, 5:53 PM UTC

This is excellent! Well done.

Would be awesome if it supported non-AWS (more generic) resources as well.

Re: Show HN: Cloudcraft – Create AWS diagrams

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Post by impostervt » Sat, Dec 12, 2015, 6:06 PM UTC

Is the grid/menu/etc all custom, or are you using some UI libraries?

Re: Show HN: Cloudcraft – Create AWS diagrams

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Post by LoSboccacc » Sat, Dec 12, 2015, 6:08 PM UTC

lbotos wrote: post #11

Some feedback: "In the delta of your current understanding and the reality of the cloud, lies cost savings and insight." This sentence was a little confusing. Maybe: Cloudcraft make it easy and clear where your could is and where it could go. Something a little simpler and more direct.

Or if we want to be picky: Cloudcraft allow you to dump your own understanding into a diagram, which may or may not be correct.

I was hoping from the article wording of a tool using some form of read only grant to amazon to draw the diagram for you, but this is just seems one step above dia.

Re: Show HN: Cloudcraft – Create AWS diagrams

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Post by Rezo » Sat, Dec 12, 2015, 6:12 PM UTC

LoSboccacc wrote: post #36

lbotos wrote: post #11

Some feedback: "In the delta of your current understanding and the reality of the cloud, lies cost savings and insight." This sentence was a little confusing. Maybe: Cloudcraft make it easy and clear where your could is and where it could go. Something a little simpler and more direct.

Or if we want to be picky: Cloudcraft allow you to dump your own understanding into a diagram, which may or may not be correct. I was hoping from the article wording of a tool using some form of read only grant to amazon to draw the diagram for you, but this is just seems one step above dia.

I am working on import from AWS via a read-only role into Cloudcraft right now :)

Re: Show HN: Cloudcraft – Create AWS diagrams

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Post by ceejayoz » Sat, Dec 12, 2015, 6:14 PM UTC

This is sorely needed and really well done thus far. I've always envied the beautiful AWS diagrams they feature in their case studies.

Re: Show HN: Cloudcraft – Create AWS diagrams

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Post by Rezo » Sat, Dec 12, 2015, 6:22 PM UTC

impostervt wrote: post #35

Is the grid/menu/etc all custom, or are you using some UI libraries?

The grid and everything on it is custom made on top of HTML5 Canvas, that's probably 80% of the code, many of the elements are isometrically projected at runtime. The menus and dialogs are done using Material-UI (http://www.material-ui.com) and React.js

Re: Show HN: Cloudcraft – Create AWS diagrams

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Post by edjboston » Sat, Dec 12, 2015, 6:28 PM UTC

This is awesome. Wouldn't it be cool is this were wired up to an orchestration tool like Terraform to visualize TF states?

Another level would be container infrastructure. Our new project is Docker/Kubernetes so the AWS infrastructure mostly just vanilla resources. It would be fantastic to have a similar tool for the internals of our micro SOA.

Great job!