How to generate architecture diagram from Azure resources

Question

Hello,

I have defined a few resources on my Azure resource group.

Is there a way that I could generate an architectural diagram 1) from the resource group and 2) from ARM template.

Please advise.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Thank you Kalyan. I tried ARM Template Viewer from Visual Studio Code. It works fine.

Answer 2

@Patrick Cho Welcome to Microsoft Q&A forums.
Please try the Visual Studio Code extension ARM Template Viewer by Ben Coleman, a Microsoft employee.

Do post your feedback here if you find any bugs or have any feature requests.

Another such tool is ArmWiz, you can upload your template and get a visualization.

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Answer 3

Are these tools verified to be safe by Microsoft? The ArmWiz link takes you to an insecure page.

Answer 4

You can use Resource visualizer at the export template option

Answer 5

Did you ever work with them for documentation purposes ?

All these visualisations are either incomplete and incorrect.

E.g. as shown above a network would be shown as a component where the correct visualisation would be a canvas around the network bound components.

Same for VMs where networkcards are part of the VM even so they only exist virtually you would need a different visualisation to understand the configuration.