Visualizing the Cloud— Diagrams-as-code?

Jack Roper
CodeX
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3 min readFeb 5, 2021

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How do you visualize your cloud deployments? If you use Infrastructure-as-code for your cloud deployments, visualizing it can be tricky. Ideally, there would be a way in Terraform itself to generate nicely formatted diagrams.

Enter diagrams as code. One option is to use the cleverly named ‘Diagrams’. You can use python to create nicely formatted cloud architecture diagrams for Azure, AWS, GCP, and more.

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Jack Roper
CodeX
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