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by welder 1033 days ago
"Hello database, why are you slow?" /s

Serious feedback:

* Support Digital Ocean (currently only AWS supported)

* Even read-only access is scary... it's not clear if that means you have access to my sensitive user data or just the infra metadata.

Normally I would just include relevant info about my AWS infra in my prompt... how is this better than that?
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throwaway290 1033 days ago
"Hello AWS, why is there this subnet and who added it?"

I'm seriously curious how is asking a chatbot better than looking at a well designed diagram...

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loa_in_ 1033 days ago
You're very lucky if there's an up to date diagram and you got confidence in it's correctness.
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throwaway290 1033 days ago
Like a hand-made diagram? That's a blast from the past...

I mean a diagram generated directly from your actual infra using the same APIs as the chatbot

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statictype 1033 days ago
Are there existing tools today that can generate a diagram frim the output of the AWS API?
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tolidano 1033 days ago
There's this: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/solutions/latest/workload-discov...

And also CloudMapper, CloudCraft, Hava, Lucid, Hyperglance, Cloudviz, and Cloudockit.

So, a resounding yes.

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throwaway290 1032 days ago
Not to say there couldn't be better tooling for infra diagram generation. I don't know anything open source and cross-provider, I wish someone worked on that. Hiding the grand overview from the user behind a bot with a fuzzy interface just seems counter productive.
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regiswilson 1033 days ago
Release engineer here.

- Support Digital Ocean: We are always looking to add more integrations! - Read-only access to user data: You are welcome to check on the policy and/or adjust it. We default in the recommended case to Read-Only, but you can improve on that with a permissions boundary - How is it better than gathering output from AWS, copy/pasting it into a browser, reading the answer and copy/pasting back into terminal? Well, it's all in one place and it allows a tighter loop between gathering, analysing, and giving responses in one place. It gives lay people better access to data they might not know how to or be able to access, and it gives advanced users smoother, tighter loops on data and access they might already have. Hopefully that gives you some ideas.

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