I've tried making some similar tool based on the output of RVTools to translate the output of RVTools to some terraform like script. I gave up on the idea after noticiing how much time it'll cost to catch most edge cases. You want those edge cases to increase your productivity, else you're just shifting your work.
I think a similar thing will happen here if you're gonna make it as broad. Maybe I'm overcomplicating things but I noticed that writing a good general parser is really, really hard.
I think this tool succeeds excellently in it's simplicity, might want some new features over time though - not sure, need to try it, but for now, great tool.
I've been (idly) looking for something like this just in the past couple of weeks, though I wasn't exactly sure what I wanted it to look like. I really like the visualization of service connections, great job!
I was playing with d3js to build a Sankey diagram, but it wasn't quite right -- this is pretty much what I was going for but hadn't quite pictured yet.
Ultimately, I am actually trying to build a dashboard to put up on a monitor on the wall with this information, but also overlay status (instance health, versions, etc). I guess it could sort of be done using sever-side image generation, so long as ETag caching is working properly, and you only regenerate the image if anything has actually changed.
I may give this a shot at some point, but before I do, anyone have ideas on how to get this result using javascript running in browser?
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 20.8 ms ] threadI think a similar thing will happen here if you're gonna make it as broad. Maybe I'm overcomplicating things but I noticed that writing a good general parser is really, really hard.
I think this tool succeeds excellently in it's simplicity, might want some new features over time though - not sure, need to try it, but for now, great tool.
Will try this out as soon as I have a spare minute! Fantastic! :)
I was playing with d3js to build a Sankey diagram, but it wasn't quite right -- this is pretty much what I was going for but hadn't quite pictured yet.
Ultimately, I am actually trying to build a dashboard to put up on a monitor on the wall with this information, but also overlay status (instance health, versions, etc). I guess it could sort of be done using sever-side image generation, so long as ETag caching is working properly, and you only regenerate the image if anything has actually changed.
I may give this a shot at some point, but before I do, anyone have ideas on how to get this result using javascript running in browser?
Netflix Vizceral kind of fits the bill as well https://github.com/Netflix/vizceral