Is there a good self hosted (preferably docker) flowchart/dataflow
designer
reddit / selfhosted

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ghoarder · 2023-11-01 11:27

Hi All, hope you can help.

I'm trying map out how our people data flows around the company.
Where to goes and where it comes from.

We have multiple sources of truth, our hr system will be responsible
for things like names, Cisco for phone numbers, exchange for emails
etc.

I need to map out all the individual connections, so the HR system
might import the email from AD, and something else might take the
email from exchange and put in a custom database, then something else
might take it from the custom database and put it into AD.

Basically it's a mess, I need to be able to document it so we can
effectively rip it out and rewire everything much more efficiently
going forward, hoping to move maybe a hub and spoke design with
multiple producers/consumers where we can easily plumb something new
in, or swap out a product without having cold sweats.

I'd like the tool to be less about actual "drawing" and more about me
describing the layout and it producing the image output, that way
edits to this mess of spaghetti will hopefully be a lot easier until
it's done.

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dotinho · 2023-11-01 12:06

Your can self host draw.io, I can do flow chart. And it’s available
for docker.

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thekrautboy · 2023-11-01 12:06

draw.io

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mr-gadget · 2023-11-01 12:07

Hi,
Have you looked into D2? https://d2lang.com/

I think this might help you with your problem. I also recommend the VS
Code plug-in for easy authoring.

Hope this helps!

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ghoarder · 2023-11-01 12:51

Ooh, this looks very promising.  I'm a software dev so writing this as
code is issue for me, in fact treating things as objects and linking
them together will be far more intuitive for me than trying to work
out how to draw the stuff.

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ddproxy · 2023-11-01 13:01

Can check out mermaidjs Plugin as well, I've used in Confluence,
Markdown, Joplin...

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homegrowntechie · 2023-11-01 16:08

+1 for mermaidjs

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ghoarder · 2023-11-01 16:40

I'm using mermaidjs as a plugin to MD Books but I thought it might be
a bit limited for the type of stuff I wanted to describe, maybe that's
because I've only done small workflows with it at the moment in app
documentation.

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ghoarder · 2023-11-01 16:43

Thanks for the suggestions, I'm going to go with D2 for this job, I
like the way I can describe an object then add the links in it.  I
wish you could link one line of a sql\_table to something else rather
than the whole sql\_table but I'm just going to make use of blow out
diagrams to describe views.

I've also spun up an instance of [draw.io](https://draw.io) at work on
our docker host as well as I think that will be handy for a number of
other things.

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carolina_balam · 2023-11-01 18:21

Excalidraw

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dhananjaipai · 2023-11-29 22:35

I was looking for this comment