Introduction to Diagrams
- Diagrams lets you draw the cloud system architecture in Python code.
- It was born for prototyping a new system architecture without any design tools. You can also describe or visualize the existing system architecture as well.
- Diagram as Code allows you to track the architecture diagram changes in any version control system.
- Diagrams currently supports main major providers including: Amazon Web Services(AWS), Azure, Google Cloud Platform(GCP), Kubernetes, Alibaba Cloud, Oracle Cloud etc… It also supports On-Premise nodes, SaaS and major Programming frameworks and languages.
Installation
- It requires Python 3.6 or higher.
- It uses Graphviz to render the diagram, so you need to install Graphviz to use diagrams. Ref: https://graphviz.gitlab.io/download/
- Install the diagrams. Ref: https://diagrams.mingrammer.com/docs/getting-started/installation
Getting Started
Create a python file - diagram.py and paste the below code
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Quick Start # diagram.py from diagrams import Diagram from diagrams.aws.compute import EC2 from diagrams.aws.database import RDS from diagrams.aws.network import ELB with Diagram("Web Service", show=False): ELB("lb") >> EC2("web") >> RDS("userdb")
Run the below command to generate the diagram which will be saved in the same directory as png.
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python diagram.py
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