grucloud vs cdk-dia

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grucloud		cdk-dia
	Project
13	Mentions	8
107	Stars	826
0.9%	Growth	-
9.6	Activity	1.6
5 months ago	Latest Commit	about 1 year ago
JavaScript	Language	JavaScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

grucloud

Posts with mentions or reviews of grucloud. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-09.

Cloud asset tracking
4 projects | /r/aws | 9 Dec 2023

I wrote an open source tool called grucloud that can also list the asset inventory, check it out at www.grucloud.com
How did you transition into IaC?
1 project | /r/aws | 8 Jul 2023

Check it out at https://www.grucloud.com/
Any exciting projects/tools
7 projects | /r/devops | 23 May 2023

I wrote a birectional infrastructure as code, where the code is generated automatically from a live infrastructure (aws, azure, gcp). Let me know your feedback on this open source tool, available at www.grucloud.com
Should we abandon YAML and JSON for complex AWS Services configurations by using AWS CDK TypeScript, JavaScript or Python instead?
1 project | /r/aws | 4 May 2023

Yes indeed, yaml and json are not suited for describing infrastructure. Off the self programming languages provide conditionals, loops and so on. I wrote an alternative to CDK/terraform called www.grucloud.com, check it out.
I have a small application on AWS. How do I put it all in one repo that could be deployed as-is, without needing to use the AWS website?
2 projects | /r/devops | 21 Oct 2022

Dig into www.grucloud.com, an alternative to terraform/cdk/pulumi. However, the code is generated automatically forme your current live infrastructure, no need to manually write infrastructure as code.
New and upcoming DevOps tools/companies?
1 project | /r/devops | 6 Oct 2022

Have a look at www.grucloud.com, an alternative to Terraform/CDK/pulumi. Instead of manually writing the code, grucloud can generate code from live infrastructures: AWS, Azure and GCP.
Show HN: Generate code and diagrams from live infrastructure, AWS/Azure/GCP
1 project | /r/hypeurls | 4 Oct 2022

4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Oct 2022
Full Stack App Automated deployment on AWS EKS
2 projects | dev.to | 2 Jul 2021

The local module defining the app on the k8s side is located at base.
Deploy an HTTPS Static Website on GCP with GruCloud
1 project | dev.to | 30 Jun 2021

The command gc graph generates this diagram from the code iac.js.

cdk-dia

Posts with mentions or reviews of cdk-dia. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-11.

Write CDK in minutes using Diagram-to-Code
1 project | /r/DevelEire | 16 May 2023

Why use this over just generating the diagram when it's done: https://github.com/pistazie/cdk-dia
Automatically create a diagram from a python cdk stack
1 project | /r/aws | 20 Feb 2023

I want to auto-generate diagrams for my infrastructure as part of my CI/CD pipelines, that updates documentation. I recently stumbled upon cdk-dia, a very nice tool that does exactly what I want, except it is geared towards stacks written in typescript - then it becomes possible to customize the diagram (hiding or showing details) in code, via decorators.
AWS Architecture Diagram tool recommendations
7 projects | /r/aws | 11 Oct 2022

It's just as easy to write your architecture in code, then generate the diagrams. If you use CDK, cdk-dia can be handy.
Show HN: Generate code and diagrams from live infrastructure, AWS/Azure/GCP
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Oct 2022

And then there are projects like CDK-Dia that are taking infra documentation one step further.
https://github.com/pistazie/cdk-dia
Looking for experience & recommendations of visualisation tools
2 projects | /r/aws | 2 Feb 2022
Automated diagrams of CDK provisioned infrastructure
1 project | /r/AWSCloudFormation | 4 Nov 2021
GitHub - pistazie/cdk-dia: Automated diagrams of CDK provisioned infrastructure
1 project | /r/aws | 4 Nov 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing grucloud and cdk-dia you can also consider the following projects:

manageiq - ManageIQ Open-Source Management Platform

cfn-diagram - CLI tool to visualise CloudFormation/SAM/CDK stacks as visjs networks, draw.io or ascii-art diagrams.

generator-starhackit - StarHackIt: React/Native/Node fullstack starter kit with authentication and authorisation, data backed by SQL, the infrastructure deployed with GruCloud

modules.tf-lambda - Infrastructure as code generator - from visual diagrams created with Cloudcraft.co to Terraform

belfy - Create a CRUD application from simple data definition yaml files and customise it using yaml.

quadzig

devpod - Codespaces but open-source, client-only and unopinionated: Works with any IDE and lets you use any cloud, kubernetes or just localhost docker.

aws-cdk - The AWS Cloud Development Kit is a framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code

nebari - 🪴 Nebari - your open source data science platform

diagrams - :art: Diagram as Code for prototyping cloud system architectures

ruby-lambda - My Ruby Lambda

terraformer - CLI tool to generate terraform files from existing infrastructure (reverse Terraform). Infrastructure to Code