Hi,
I'm very new to Essential Cloud - in fact, I haven't even got my hands on it yet as we're just going through the procurement process internally.
I've been watching the YouTube videos and going through some of the University stuff and from what I've seen it says that Essential Cloud isn't really the go-to tool for producing architecture diagrams.
What do others do to create architecture diagrams? We can use E.C. for capturing and mapping our architecture, but we still want to be able to produce architecture and solution design diagrams to go into HLD documents, etc.
I think I saw a reference to using Archi for this, but is there a way to get the data/model out of E.C. into Archi to use for diagramming?
Thoughts?
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Architecture diagrams
We're actually bringing diagramming into the tool, the BPMN editor was the first iteration. We're taking a cautious approach as we want to maintain the integrity of the data, so people won't be able to just create nonsense, so it does provide guardrails. You will see more diagramming coming over the next 6 months or so.
Otherwise, you can use links to documentation in the summary views to link back to diagrams, the archi loader in Cloud allows you to upload data from archi, it provides predefined mappings, which you can amend if required. However, the diagrams remain within archi
Otherwise, you can use links to documentation in the summary views to link back to diagrams, the archi loader in Cloud allows you to upload data from archi, it provides predefined mappings, which you can amend if required. However, the diagrams remain within archi
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Declan Lynch
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I use the C4 methodology for Arch diagrams using their Diagrams As Code Structurizr language.
I've also been very successful in pulling in the C4 diagrams in to Essential via the Api in certain areas
C4 softwareSystems become application providers.
Relationships become dependancies in a static application provider architecture.
Then using the container diagrams we have defined a set of structuring tags that are to be used that we pull out to build a deployment and a technology product build to link technologies to applications.
Future work on this is looking in to how we can use the container diagrams to build out a logical software architecture where each container becomes a software component in Essential etc.
I've also been very successful in pulling in the C4 diagrams in to Essential via the Api in certain areas
C4 softwareSystems become application providers.
Relationships become dependancies in a static application provider architecture.
Then using the container diagrams we have defined a set of structuring tags that are to be used that we pull out to build a deployment and a technology product build to link technologies to applications.
Future work on this is looking in to how we can use the container diagrams to build out a logical software architecture where each container becomes a software component in Essential etc.
