OCI API Gateway Reference Architecture Diagram

Diagrams lets you draw the cloud system architecture in Python code.

It was born for prototyping a new system architecture without any design tools. You can also describe or visualize the existing system architecture as well.

Diagram as Code allows you to tracking the architecture diagram changes on any version control system.

In this example, we will draw an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure API Gateway Reference Architecture, which is pretty similar to this one.

1. Clone the repository & install the Python Module

It uses Graphviz to render the diagram, so you need to install Graphviz to use diagrams. After installing graphviz (or already have it), install the diagrams.

macOS users can download the Graphviz via brew install graphviz if you're using Homebrew. Similarly, Windows users with Chocolatey installed can run choco install graphviz.

Linux users can download the Graphviz from here and then install it according to your OS flavour.

Clone the Git repo and then install the python module

$ git clone https://github.com/stretchcloud/OCI-Diagram
$ cd OCI-Diagram
$ pip3 install diagrams

Once your installation is done, you are pretty much free to call the Python code which is here. This will generate a nice looking OCI API Gateway Reference Architecture.

$ python3 OCI-API_GW.py

You can extend it for any other purposes as well. Diagram has a list of oci modules that you can use to render the diagram. You can get to list all of them here.