[williamdclt]

I’ve only tried structirizr briefly, but I found it too inflexible. No way to draw concepts that aren’t strictly part of C4. For example I wanted to encapsulate 2 components in a box to represent that they’re currently deployed as one service (not necessarily a good thing to do in absolute but would have helped my team to grok it better): impossible.

I do like the idea of describing architecture formally, but the lack of customizability of diagram output was too painful

[simon_brown]

I don't have the full context of what you're trying to model, but "two components deployed as one service" might be better represented as a container. If that's not the case, you can use the "group" concept to group components together -> https://docs.structurizr.com/dsl/cookbook/groups/

Alternatively, https://likec4.dev provides a way to create an arbitrary number of abstraction levels (although I wouldn't recommend such an approach).

[williamdclt]

Can’t remember the details, but yeah it might be that I was trying to make a container appear in a component diagram or something like that