Architecture Diagrams with Python: Version Control Your System Design For AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Alibaba Cloud and Oracle Cloud

Dragging boxes and drawing lines to explain your architecture is a bit… 1999?

What about designing your cloud architecture directly in Python code?

That would be perfect for quickly prototyping or documenting your system—without any clunky design tools.

Even better, if it could already support major cloud providers like AWS, Azure, GCP, and even works with on-premise setups, SaaS platforms, and popular frameworks.

And since you would be writing your architecture as code, you could keep track of changes in your version control system—no more hunting down outdated architecture docs!

Let’s see how you can do all of that with Python!

Getting Started with Diagrams

You’ll need Python 3.7 or higher, so check your Python version first.

diagrams uses Graphviz to render visuals, so go ahead and install that too.

If you are using macOS, you can install Graphviz with brew:

brew install graphviz

Then, install diagrams:

# using pip
pip…