Show HN: Holori- Automated Terraform Diagrams in Pull Requests

[alex_35]

https://holori.com/terraform-diagram/

Hey HackerNews community!

We're Antoine, Emeric, and Alexandre, the minds behind Holori. In our past lives, we dove deep into documenting complex infrastructures across various cloud providers for the Aerospace and Medical industries. Compliance was crucial, but spending endless hours on Draw.io felt like a drain on our productivity.

Realizing we weren't alone in this struggle, we set out to build a solution. Introducing Holori, a tool that automatically generates infrastructure diagrams from your Terraform files. The magic happens right in your GitHub Pull Requests – the diagrams are seamlessly embedded in the comments. Click on the visual representation, and you'll be transported to our SaaS app, where you can explore all historical changes and drill down in the terraform attributes. Currently, Holori supports AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Exciting plans are in the pipeline! We're gearing up to generate diff diagrams directly in the Pull Request to easily highlight changes with added, modified or deleted resources. We are also planning for integrations with GitLab and Bitbucket.

We've poured our hearts into crafting an intuitive, user-friendly experience, but now we need your input. Try Holori today and share your thoughts – your feedback is key in shaping Holori's future. Calling all Cloud Architects, DevOps engineers, and Terraform enthusiasts!

Give Holori a spin at https://app.holori.com/. We can't wait to hear how Holori transforms infrastructure visualization and documentation for you.

Thank you for your support!

[ayewo]

Congrats on the Show HN!

I’d love to take a look at your product but the link in your launch is gated behind a login.

Your product definitely sounds interesting to me [1] and I’m sure there are a few others who’d like to see it in action without first creating an account.

Can you please link to any of a live preview from a repo on GitHub, a demo or even a video showing your product in action?

1: I came across https://text-to-diagram.com/ on HN and think using text to create diagrams is cool, if done right. Would be interested in a technical deep dive on how you are able to strike a balance between showing too little vs too much info in the diagrams your tool creates from Terraform files.

[alex_35 → ayewo]

hey Ayewo, have a look at the link below, this is a short demo video showing how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlEajEoUytc&t=124s&ab_channe...

[ayewo → alex_35]

I've just watched the video. Pretty cool product.

Some ideas to make your value proposition clear to visitors to your website:

1. On the landing page show a side-by-side of some Terraform code and its corresponding diagram (produced by your tool).

2. Show a range of screenshots of nice looking diagrams produced by your tool, including the isometric versions (shown in your video).

Questions:

1. Can you share more information about pricing? Freemium or free-trial?

2. Why did you choose the name Holori? What does it mean?

[alex_35 → ayewo]

good ideas, yesterday I wrote a medium post exactly showing your 1st point : https://medium.com/@alexandre_43174/generating-terraform-gra...

Concerning the pricing, it's a freemium model based on the amount of Runs made. We offer 50 runs per month which approximately means 50 diagrams generated. We consider that a run is performed every time you modify your terraform files as we will process them to generate a new diagram.

Regarding the name Holori, despite we are french, the name actually sounds Italian and I personally love the italian language :) Also we wanted a name that sounded technological, fun and that could be pronounced worldwide!