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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

#71

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.

I had the same issue. I found this and it works decently well and OSS.

https://mermaid-to-excalidraw.vercel.app/

Re: OpenFLOW – Quickly make beautiful infrastructure diagrams local to your machine

#73
post #8

This is a little tangential, but I've wondered for a while if there's a better way to visualise the composition of software systems. Often, there's not only a single way to look at one: There's a user interaction flow through components, but those components also consist of hardware; the hardware might be virtual and composed of several, spread, sub-components, or even containers. You can go down this path pretty dee…

Something like the C4 model?

https://c4model.com/diagrams

Re: OpenFLOW – Quickly make beautiful infrastructure diagrams local to your machine

#75

This is awesome. I built a lightweight home status server called Stylus that would probably pair very well with this: https://github.com/mmastrac/stylus It works by automatically changing CSS classes, and it looks like the underlying isoflow library should support this.

Looks great! One recommendation, move the screenshots more to the top of the readme. It says "Stylus (style + status)" first sentence, and leaves the reader with a dangling "so what is the style?!" until way lower, after a theory of operation section ;)

Re: OpenFLOW – Quickly make beautiful infrastructure diagrams local to your machine

#77

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.

Markdown integration would be really great.

I’d argue even necessary for success.

Re: OpenFLOW – Quickly make beautiful infrastructure diagrams local to your machine

#78
post #33

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.

I love the idea of mermaid but the syntax is somewhat convolutes and the integrations in tools like GitLab are very unstable.

I don't know why, but I find the syntax pretty decent when you get used to it. It's declarative.

Re: OpenFLOW – Quickly make beautiful infrastructure diagrams local to your machine

#80
post #53

If you care, Snowflake launched a product called Openflow less than a month ago. Yours will probably be very difficult to discover.

There's also a network telemetry protocol called OpenFlow that every network engineer knows. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenFlow

Reading the title, I expected cute network diagrams from aggregated OpenFlow telemetry !
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