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x0z · 12 days ago
I took the feedback you all submitted a month or so ago when I first submitted the project, and I've been working tirelessly to try and implement the features requested. Don't get me wrong I have a long way to go, but it's much faster now, got the Docker image to be actually really usable, it can now be network deployed and other users can edit your diagrams. Major UX improvements, added a bunch of panning support, connectors now stay selected when you use them, hotkeys for tools.

Lmk what else is a bugbear when using this, I'm open to criticism. Love ya, -S

x0z commented on OpenFLOW – Quickly make beautiful infrastructure diagrams local to your machine   github.com/stan-smith/Ope... · Posted by u/x0z
soco · 2 months ago
And for the next level of wishful thinking, filter that Terraform state and show only main components...
x0z · 2 months ago
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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tankenmate · 2 months ago
FYI, they changed their name to FOSSFlow about an hour ago.
x0z · 2 months ago
Hahaha yes, after popular demmand I realised my mistake
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jamesponddotco · 2 months ago
Cloudcraft[1][2] can do that with your cloud provider, AWS or Azure. As a bonus, the diagrams also look quite cool.

[1]: https://www.cloudcraft.co/

[2]: I’m part of the Cloudcraft team at DataDog, so obviously, I’m biased.

x0z · 2 months ago
I absolutely love cloudcraft, full disclosure one of our team at work wanted to use it, but we're a public sector org(no money), so I threw this together for him
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knorker · 2 months ago
It's a bit confusing to see "openflow" diagrams that include network components, that have nothing to do with OpenFlow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenFlow

It is unrelated, right? Just a name clash with an overlapping domain?

x0z · 2 months ago
Hahahah yes so funnily enough my dad works with the IETF, and I showed him this project and he said "I was really confused why you called it that when that's a standard" Might be due a rebrand already!
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Yesman85 · 2 months ago
If it can consume terraform state and visualize it, that would be amazing.
x0z · 2 months ago
It's on the list ;)
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busssard · 2 months ago
it would be great to have an easier time to add my custom icon svg or even links to svg and then scaling them automatically to size

this way i could tell the LLM that will be generating my JSON to include the following links as X and create the output JSON immediately

x0z · 2 months ago
I'll add it to the todo
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donatj · 2 months ago
I am unclear exactly, what is this doing on top of Isoflow? Seems like Isoflow is doing a lot of the heavy lifting here?
x0z · 2 months ago
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.
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b0a04gl · 2 months ago
what 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
x0z · 2 months ago
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

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