Show HN: OpsCanvas – Diagram-based cloud native deployments (opens in new tab)

We just finished the first version of a cloud native deployment tool called OpsCanvas. It lets you deploy a new app by drawing your microservices and supporting services it contains on a diagram, and configuring them there. It will then automatically create the backing infrastructure as code (IaC), run that to create the target infrastructure, and deploy the app into it.

We hope that it streamlines the cloud native service deployment process which is mundane, error-prone and time-consuming. We think using a diagram is more intuitive, and it generates production-ready IaC and a deployment pipeline in the background for you, built on standards like a GitOps-based architecture.

Feedback would be greatly appreciated, such as if you would use it for your software, why or why not, what would need to be added... really any thoughts would be valued!

Additional details...

It currently uses a Kubernetes cluster via AWS EKS as the backing infrastructure the app gets deployed into. We have plans for many other options. It is early days! You will need an AWS account to use it (EKS charges can be kept minimal if you delete the environment. We have it defaulted to delete itself after 3 hours for now).

Check it out at https://app.opscanvas.io,

Here are the docs and basic tutorial. There are also some short videos inside the app, https://docs.opscanvas.io/welcome/quickstart/create-an-app-d...

Thanks again for any feedback!