mithunshanbhag

Some time back, I've received a similar feature request for deployment scripts to diagram conversion (and vice versa).

However:

- A very, very small fraction of CloudSkew users have actually requested this feature (i.e. not a whole lot of user demand).

- This is a "high-effort-required" yet "hard-to-get-right" feature (extremely error prone).

So currently, there are no plans to work on this feature.

That said, if enough users demand it AND there is a compelling business case for this, I can definitely add this to the product roadmap.

disclaimer: I haven't personally tried out any of these

Clicking on the 'user preferences & settings' icon (on the left-hand bar) will take you to the same location. But yes, I agree that the UX could definitely be improved here.

Regarding the aspect ratio, I already have a github issue open: https://github.com/cloudskew/cloudskew/issues/74

Also, please feel free to file feature requests or bugs/issues over on github: https://github.com/cloudskew/cloudskew/issues

Which is a shame because the product screenshots look pretty impressive! I'm not too sure what the ultimate experience with 3D/isometric drawings is like, but the diagrams sure look cool!

PS: The search box (on top of the icon palette) should make things a bit easier. For some icons, it can even search with synonyms (e.g. search for 'nosql' will show 'mongodb'). However this is not consistent across all cloud provider icons currently.

1. Does your team/org maintain a central diagram repository? Or do team members use their diagram tool of choice and then export diagram into a central doc library (e.g. github markdown)?

2. The short-term plan is to add more diagram templates (e.g. VPCs, K8s clusters) to help folks author complex architectures quickly.

3. There are plans to release a paid enterprise version later in the year with features like SSO, customer-managed-encryption-keys, customer-managed-storage, team collaboration etc.

Overall, CloudSkew will remain focused on cloud diagram only.

Adds business value, no :-)

1. Haven't found the time to fill in the privacy-policy, terms-of-usage pages. Been swamped with feature work.

2. No, you'll never get ANY emails from us.

3. Product is free for individual users. However, there are plans to release a paid enterprise version later in the year (with SSO, customer-managed-encryption-keys, customer-managed-storage, team collaboration features etc).

While there are many tools for sketching flowcharts, mind-maps, UML diagrams etc, cloudskew has cloud architecture diagrams as its sole focus.

Also planning your cloud architecture requires several round-trips between your drawing tool, document editor (for architecture documentation), looking up reference architectures, googling for AWS documentation (for resource docs, pricing details etc).

CloudSkew can reduce some of these pains today:

1. It already has a built-in document editor (so architecture documentation + diagrams can reside side-by-side).

2. Links to official docs (including pricing details, SLA) for all AWS, Azure and GCP resources are available within the app itself.

3. Bigger icon set (as far as cloud diagrams are concerned).

Later in the year, some cloudskew features will be coming to make cloud architecture planning easier.

Link for others: https://www.cloudskew.com/about/cloudskew-architecture.html

Check out some diagram samples here - https://www.cloudskew.com/docs/samples.html

Icons for AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, CNCF, Alibaba Cloud, Oracle Cloud and more are already preloaded in the app.

Documentation for all AWS, Azure, GCP resources can be accessed from within the app itself.

Hope the community finds it useful.

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