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Show HN: CloudSkew – Draw AWS, Azure, GCP, K8s architecture diagrams

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Re: Show HN: CloudSkew – Draw AWS, Azure, GCP, K8s architecture diagrams

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Post by mithunshanbhag »

alexh1 wrote: post #31

Cool! Did you know about https://arcentry.com/ when you started this? Sorry on mobile so I won't look at your commit history to see if you started before. I know the guy behind arcentry so just curious.

Unfortunately, from what I've heard, that product is being discontinued for business reasons: https://arcentry.com/discontinuation-letter/

Which is a shame because the product screenshots look pretty impressive! I'm not too sure what the ultimate experience with 3D/isometric drawings is like, but the diagrams sure look cool!

Re: Show HN: CloudSkew – Draw AWS, Azure, GCP, K8s architecture diagrams

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Post by mithunshanbhag »

chessmango wrote: post #30
mithunshanbhag wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks. 1. Does your team/org maintain a central diagram repository? Or do team members use their diagram tool of choice and then export diagram into a central doc library (e.g. github markdown)? 2. The short-term plan is to add more diagram templates (e.g. VPCs, K8s clusters) to help folks author complex architectures quickly. 3. There are plans to release a paid enterprise version later in the year with features li…

1. Yes/no - my own team is more the latter as I'm more customer-facing and lone-ranger-y, but other teams do a lot more collab and keep things central. As far as I'm aware though, it's a bit of a mixed bag, so getting to the point where we're all on the same page would be fantastic. 2. This sounds great. I like the k8s angle particularly as well - I have yet to find much useful in that area, so having a service that'…

Thank you for the pointers! This is great info.

Also, please feel free to file feature requests or bugs/issues over on github: https://github.com/cloudskew/cloudskew/issues

Re: Show HN: CloudSkew – Draw AWS, Azure, GCP, K8s architecture diagrams

#35

Post by jahewson »

dano wrote: post #4

This is quite impressive and I like the transparency provided on the about page regarding your architecture, toolchain, and workflow.

Looking at the source, the frontend is built on top of Syncfusion Diagrams https://www.syncfusion.com/javascript-ui-controls/js-diagram

Re: Show HN: CloudSkew – Draw AWS, Azure, GCP, K8s architecture diagrams

#36

Post by mithunshanbhag »

hypewatch wrote: post #32

Have you looked at Lucidchart - https://www.lucidchart.com/ ? They also have cloud infra icons.

Yes, true. However, here's a bit more context on the need for CloudSkew: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23613510

Re: Show HN: CloudSkew – Draw AWS, Azure, GCP, K8s architecture diagrams

#39

Post by jahewson »

aurbano wrote: post #10

Looks great! What libraries have you guys used in the frontend, if you don't mind sharing? I worked on an internal tool at a company with a slightly similar UI so I'm curious about it

I wondered this too - it’s Syncfusion Diagrams with Angular.

Re: Show HN: CloudSkew – Draw AWS, Azure, GCP, K8s architecture diagrams

#40

Post by sequence7 »

This is super nice, congratulations on building and releasing it. It's great that you've got so many decent icons but I find having to go into my profile to choose icon sets a bit unintuitive, I only found that option by blind luck. Also please implement a collapse all for the icon groups.
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