Hi Everyone. Our team has recently started using serverless-stack. I was wondering, is there any good automated tool to visualize the infrastructure generated? I’d love to have a nice diagram for our documentation which is always up to date.

I don’t exactly have the answer but seeing as severless-stack is just generating Cloud Formation templates I think the question to ask is there any tool that will visualize Cloud Formation?

There are automatic tools, the problem is the underlying infrastructure is pretty complex and the diagrams usually have 90% too much information

Something like https://docs.stackery.io/docs/using-stackery/template-visualization maybe?

You can get cloudformation template diagrams from the deployed stack natively in AWS console, but as stated above, it’s not super valuable due to it being a lot of pieces

Ah, that makes sense. I think in my head I was hoping there would be some magical construct where we add a few comments in the infrastructure files and it creates some beautiful, commented diagram 😂. Thanks for the link @Nick Laffey. I’ll take a look 🙂

Im questioning whether what I sent you is actually valuable or not… it’s more tied into whatever their service is more than I originally thought it was.

Hahaha, I understand what you all mean now

lol

I’ve been using DIA, which converts CF JSON into diagram.

Yes, cdk-dia, it's an npm module. It uses the tree.json. It doesn't show cross stack association, but it's pretty good https://www.npmjs.com/package/cdk-dia

Yeah Im using it and it’s cool.

Yeah we use cdk dia 👍

It’s great because DIA can write the consumers/providers for Events on EBridge.