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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

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Post by fennecbutt »

MisterTea wrote: post #66
dr_kretyn wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It wasn't mean spirited but now I can see it that indeed it came out as such. Apologies. And thanks for pointing it out!

Nah, its okay. I too think beautiful is used too often in contexts where it feels exaggerated. Nature can be beautiful. People can be beautiful. But a blue and grey computer diagram? It certainly looks good to me but I would not use the word beautiful. Perhaps if it were exceptionally artistic using a unique aesthetic I would use that word. But that's just like, my opinion, man.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

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

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Post by mmastrac »

Valodim wrote: post #75
mmastrac wrote: post #20

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 ;)

Thanks for that feedback, will totally do that. I should probably update the sample screenshots to be a little more visually appealing, as well.

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

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Post by careful_ai »

Kudos—OpenFLOW feels like reclaiming infrastructure from CLI sprawl. Low-code network management with observability baked in is a powerful combo. The secret sauce is that it keeps humans in the loop: scripting flows is easy, but visualizing and validating them in real-time makes it production-ready. That human-checkpoint mindset is where dynamic tooling meets trust.

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

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Post by x0z »

soco wrote: post #82
Yesman85 wrote: post #35

If it can consume terraform state and visualize it, that would be amazing.

And for the next level of wishful thinking, filter that Terraform state and show only main components...

This is the first project I've had that's gained any traction, my todo is filling up so fast! Definitely want to make Terraform state imports a main
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