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

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Post by swyx »

mithunshanbhag wrote: post #2

Hello everyone, I'm Mithun, creator of cloudskew.com: a free app for sketching cloud architecture diagrams. Check out some diagram samples here - https://www.cloudskew.com/docs/samples.html Icons for AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, CNCF, Alibaba Cloud, Oracle Cloud and more are already preloaded in the app. Documentation for all AWS, Azure, GCP resources can be accessed from within the app itself. Hope the community fin…

maybe i am holding it wrong but i only see Azure icons in the app? where is the AWS stuff?

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

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Post by mithunshanbhag »

swyx wrote: post #41
mithunshanbhag wrote: post #2

Hello everyone, I'm Mithun, creator of cloudskew.com: a free app for sketching cloud architecture diagrams. Check out some diagram samples here - https://www.cloudskew.com/docs/samples.html Icons for AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, CNCF, Alibaba Cloud, Oracle Cloud and more are already preloaded in the app. Documentation for all AWS, Azure, GCP resources can be accessed from within the app itself. Hope the community fin…

maybe i am holding it wrong but i only see Azure icons in the app? where is the AWS stuff?

Click on 'add/remove icons' link at the bottom left on the page. Then choose 'AWS'. The aws icons should appear in the icon palette.

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

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Post by mithunshanbhag »

sequence7 wrote: post #40

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.

Feedback noted!

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

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Post by jcims »

mithunshanbhag wrote: post #42
swyx wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

maybe i am holding it wrong but i only see Azure icons in the app? where is the AWS stuff?

Click on 'add/remove icons' link at the bottom left on the page. Then choose 'AWS'. The aws icons should appear in the icon palette.

This looks great!

Just a couple quick feedback items. I had a little trouble finding that Add/Remove Icons' link and after i selected AWS in the preferences i couldn't figure out how to make it go away and get back to the palette. Moving that to the navbar on the left with a gallery type icon might work.

One other suggestion would be to lock the aspect ratio of any kind of stencil that has a product logo in it.

Again these are just minor nitpicks, fantastic work!

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

#48

Post by marketgod »

satyrnein wrote: post #47

Are there tools that can build a diagram automatically by looking at your AWS account (or some sort of export) for the truly lazy? Asking for a friend...

Lookup LucidCharts. I haven't tested it myself.

Edit: They have another service for this.

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

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Post by mithunshanbhag »

jcims wrote: post #46
mithunshanbhag wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Click on 'add/remove icons' link at the bottom left on the page. Then choose 'AWS'. The aws icons should appear in the icon palette.

This looks great! Just a couple quick feedback items. I had a little trouble finding that Add/Remove Icons' link and after i selected AWS in the preferences i couldn't figure out how to make it go away and get back to the palette. Moving that to the navbar on the left with a gallery type icon might work. One other suggestion would be to lock the aspect ratio of any kind of stencil that has a product logo in it. Again…

Thanks.

Clicking on the 'user preferences & settings' icon (on the left-hand bar) will take you to the same location. But yes, I agree that the UX could definitely be improved here.

Regarding the aspect ratio, I already have a github issue open: https://github.com/cloudskew/cloudskew/issues/74

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