Create an App Diagram
In this section, you will sign up for an OpsCanvas account and create an app diagram that represents your services and the connections between them
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In this section, you will sign up for an OpsCanvas account and create an app diagram that represents your services and the connections between them
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Your services can be connected to other services on the diagram, which will allow easy mapping of environment variables between your services and cloud-managed services.
Create an account by navigating to , clicking Sign Up, and going through the account creation process.
Once on the homepage, click Create > New App Diagram.
Name your app and choose a cloud provider (only AWS is available at this time).
Select the managed services you want to pre-populate on the diagram.
Selecting this tab shows the secure network topology that OpsCanvas will provision for you automatically. You can see the VPC, public & private subnets, Kubernetes cluster, and the selected managed and private services on your diagram.
Put your mouse over the top icon in the service tray Drag New Service and drag it onto the canvas and then give it a name.
Indicate how services communicate with one another. Hover over a service, grab a drag point and draw a line to the target service.
OpsCanvas needs a copy of your container image that it uses to deploy. In this step you will need to know the following:
The port on which your service accepts HTTP requests
Image URI
Username to access the image
Password for access
Here is the process:
Click the gear icon on the service you want to import.
Fill out the service tray.
Wait for the service to be ready.
Configure environment variables.
You need to tell OpsCanvas about the environment variables that are used to configure your service. This is done in the service configuration tray. You will name the environment variable, and give it a type and value.
Values can be hard-coded or they can refer to values "published" by other services. In the video below, you'll see the My API service is configured to connect to the Postgres database.
Environment variable names will be associated with the service and available in subsequent diagrams. The values won't be and need to be specified in each diagram.
Selecting this tab populates the service tray on the right with the private services that you have registered with OpsCanvas. See for details.
Selecting this tab populates the service tray with the services available from the selected cloud provider. This is a list managed by OpsCanvas and will continue to grow. We'd love to hear what services you need to support in your diagram, drop a line to .
