Ask HN: Any self-hosted tools for visualizing cloud infra changes over time?

4 pointsjayjohnson1 comment

I know there's a bunch of SaaS options out there already, but I was wondering if anyone knew about a self-hosted, on-premise option that did not send any infra or account details/access out of my network?

Thanks for your time and help!

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This only partially answers your question and I suspect this isn't the case for you, but if you're already using Terraform there are tools to generate visuals from it's state file. I forget the flag but Terraform itself can dump out a .dot file that can be consumed by graphviz. There is also a tool called BlastRadius that results in a much nicer graph.

With any non-trivial amount of resources and modules these graphs get HUGE but can still be useful, especially if one is about to make some significant changes.

I don't have any suggestion for the "over time" part however.

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