This looks amazing. I find Mermaid.js ugly and the syntax difficult/buggy but unfortunately it's one of the best supported diagram tools in static site generators. It'd be awesome to have Isoflow diagrams embedded in Markdown like that.
OpenFLOW – Quickly make beautiful infrastructure diagrams local to your machine
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Re: OpenFLOW – Quickly make beautiful infrastructure diagrams local to your machine
#32I've not done anything special here, just wrapped the community edition of ISOFLOW https://github.com/markmanx/isoflow and made it dead easy to set up and run. You can now export and load JSON backups of your diagrams allowing you to essentially have as many as you want, which the community version of ISOFLOW restricts. Enjoy!
I'm not very familiar with Node.js. Any idea where in isoflow's code are the graphics for those 3D-style icons? Are they SVG or what? Is it possible to add custom icons?
Re: OpenFLOW – Quickly make beautiful infrastructure diagrams local to your machine
#33This looks amazing. I find Mermaid.js ugly and the syntax difficult/buggy but unfortunately it's one of the best supported diagram tools in static site generators. It'd be awesome to have Isoflow diagrams embedded in Markdown like that.
I love the idea of mermaid but the syntax is somewhat convolutes and the integrations in tools like GitLab are very unstable.
Re: OpenFLOW – Quickly make beautiful infrastructure diagrams local to your machine
#34This looks amazing. I find Mermaid.js ugly and the syntax difficult/buggy but unfortunately it's one of the best supported diagram tools in static site generators. It'd be awesome to have Isoflow diagrams embedded in Markdown like that.
Thanks! That'd definitely be interesting to look into, I'll put it on my TODO
Re: OpenFLOW – Quickly make beautiful infrastructure diagrams local to your machine
#35If it can consume terraform state and visualize it, that would be amazing.
Re: OpenFLOW – Quickly make beautiful infrastructure diagrams local to your machine
#36There's also diagrams.mingrammer.com which is a fantastic tool.
Re: OpenFLOW – Quickly make beautiful infrastructure diagrams local to your machine
#37This looks amazing. I find Mermaid.js ugly and the syntax difficult/buggy but unfortunately it's one of the best supported diagram tools in static site generators. It'd be awesome to have Isoflow diagrams embedded in Markdown like that.
Markdown integration would be really great.
Re: OpenFLOW – Quickly make beautiful infrastructure diagrams local to your machine
#38what if we can make these diagrams synchronized with reality. you need the diagram to pull from the same source of truth as your actual infrastructure - whether that's terraform state, kubernetes manifests, or service discovery. that way diagrams become less historical artifacts and more of living documentation
Re: OpenFLOW – Quickly make beautiful infrastructure diagrams local to your machine
#39what if we can make these diagrams synchronized with reality. you need the diagram to pull from the same source of truth as your actual infrastructure - whether that's terraform state, kubernetes manifests, or service discovery. that way diagrams become less historical artifacts and more of living documentation
That's a great thought, I'd need to make some kind of translation between manifests and the json, getting knowledge of those relationships might be tricky?
Service discovery is another route, would hate to get someones IT department angry for aggressive port scanning though lol
Re: OpenFLOW – Quickly make beautiful infrastructure diagrams local to your machine
#40I am unclear exactly, what is this doing on top of Isoflow? Seems like Isoflow is doing a lot of the heavy lifting here?
No you're absolutely right, isoflow is doing 90% of the work here, I'm not hiding that, they just don't have a ready to use version like this of their community pack. That's all this is.