VisualFlowArchitecture diagrams as code
Generating always-accurate system diagrams from Terraform with VisualFlow.
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Jonas Becker
Developer Advocate · · 10 min read
#architecture#terraform#diagrams
Diagrams rot
Hand-drawn architecture diagrams are out of date the week after they're drawn. Generating them from source keeps them honest.
The pipeline
Parse the Terraform state, map resources to node types, group by module and lay out with ELK.