Googlielmo's blog

 In my career I have noticed that often organizations are reluctant on providing Engineering teams with licenses for software to draw diagrams. In the best case scenarios MS Visio is usually the only option available, which isn't the best experience when trying to draw modern software architectures. Several online options are available, but they require to share project details that cannot leave your organization network, so they couldn't be taken into account often. Also, while treating everything as code, it would be nice to have also diagrams as code. All these needs can be satisfied by adopting Diagrams . It is an Open Source Python package that allows you draw cloud system architecture diagrams programmatically and then put them under version control, (as at the end they are regular Python files). It supports cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba, Oracle) and on-prem system architecture diagrams. The Diagrams nodes include also Kubernetes, programming languages and frameworks. ...