Show HN: Generate code and diagrams from live infrastructure, AWS/Azure/GCP

• grucloud

  13 107 9.6 JavaScript

  Generate code and diagrams from cloud infrastructures: AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes

  

• terraformer

  109 11,825 7.6 Go

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

  

Seems like a potentially useful tool. Another related approach is https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/terraformer ("reverse Terraform"), which might be better if your end goal is to build Terraform scripts for existing infra.

However I like the idea of using these visualizations to grok or monitor infra; say as a Platform or Security engineering team, you might want to keep an eye on specific classes of resource like storage buckets, load balancers, etc.

• SurveyJS

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  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• aws-cdk

  264 11,177 9.9 TypeScript

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

  

A while ago I started using the AWS CDK and never looked back, I can write all the infrastructure code in a real programming language with auto complete and proper IDE support, no more hacky YAML syntax for simple if statements!

Issue with using config for these things is that more complex structures don't scale that well, in code you can do abstractions to make everything easier to reason about.

https://aws.amazon.com/cdk/

• cdk-dia

  8 826 1.6 JavaScript

  Automated diagrams of CDK provisioned infrastructure

And then there are projects like CDK-Dia that are taking infra documentation one step further.

https://github.com/pistazie/cdk-dia

Suggest a related project