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Network topology, infrastructure architecture, and software system mapping in draw.io with cloud, on-prem, and hybrid layouts It is listed under DevOps & Infra on SkillMD.

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Network Software Mapping by markus41

Name: Network Software Mapping
Author: markus41

Network & Software Architecture Mapping

Diagram Type Selection

Need	Diagram Type	Shape Library
Physical network layout	Network Topology	`mxgraph.network`
Cloud infrastructure (AWS)	AWS Architecture	`mxgraph.aws4`
Cloud infrastructure (Azure)	Azure Architecture	`mxgraph.azure`
Cloud infrastructure (GCP)	GCP Architecture	`mxgraph.gcp2`
Kubernetes cluster layout	K8s Diagram	`mxgraph.kubernetes`
Microservice communication	Service Map	General + custom
CI/CD pipeline	Pipeline Diagram	Flowchart + custom
On-prem data center	Rack Diagram	`mxgraph.rack`
Security zones / DMZ	Zone Diagram	Swimlanes + shapes
Hybrid cloud	Multi-cloud	Combined libraries

Shape Libraries

Enabling Cloud Libraries

In draw.io: File > Open Library From > Search or enable from the left panel.

Library	Prefix	Key Shapes
AWS 4	`mxgraph.aws4`	EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, ALB, CloudFront, Route53, ECS, EKS
Azure	`mxgraph.azure`	VM, App Service, SQL DB, Functions, AKS, Front Door, Key Vault
GCP	`mxgraph.gcp2`	Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run, BigQuery, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub
Kubernetes	`mxgraph.kubernetes`	Pod, Service, Deployment, Ingress, ConfigMap, PVC, Node
Network	`mxgraph.network`	Router, switch, firewall, server, desktop, cloud, database
Cisco	`mxgraph.cisco19`	Cisco-specific network hardware icons
Rack	`mxgraph.rack`	Server rack, UPS, patch panel, switch unit

Network Topology

Basic LAN/WAN Topology

<mxGraphModel>
  <root>
    <mxCell id="0"/>
    <mxCell id="1" parent="0"/>
    <!-- Internet cloud -->
    <mxCell id="internet" value="Internet" style="shape=mxgraph.network.cloud;fillColor=#DDEEFF;strokeColor=#6C8EBF;fontSize=14;fontStyle=1;" vertex="1" parent="1">
      <mxGeometry x="300" y="20" width="120" height="70" as="geometry"/>
    </mxCell>
    <!-- Firewall -->
    <mxCell id="fw" value="Firewall" style="shape=mxgraph.network.firewall;fillColor=#F8CECC;strokeColor=#B85450;fontSize=11;" vertex="1" parent="1">
      <mxGeometry x="330" y="140" width="60" height="60" as="geometry"/>
    </mxCell>
    <!-- Router -->
    <mxCell id="router" value="Core Router" style="shape=mxgraph.network.router;fillColor=#DAE8FC;strokeColor=#6C8EBF;fontSize=11;" vertex="1" parent="1">
      <mxGeometry x="330" y="250" width="60" height="40" as="geometry"/>
    </mxCell>
    <!-- Switch -->
    <mxCell id="sw1" value="Switch A" style="shape=mxgraph.network.switch;fillColor=#D5E8D4;strokeColor=#82B366;fontSize=11;" vertex="1" parent="1">
      <mxGeometry x="160" y="340" width="60" height="30" as="geometry"/>
    </mxCell>
    <mxCell id="sw2" value="Switch B" style="shape=mxgraph.network.switch;fillColor=#D5E8D4;strokeColor=#82B366;fontSize=11;" vertex="1" parent="1">
      <mxGeometry x="500" y="340" width="60" height="30" as="geometry"/>
    </mxCell>
    <!-- Servers -->
    <mxCell id="srv1" value="Web Server" style="shape=mxgraph.network.server;fillColor=#DAE8FC;strokeColor=#6C8EBF;fontSize=10;" vertex="1" parent="1">
      <mxGeometry x="100" y="420" width="50" height="60" as="geometry"/>
    </mxCell>
    <mxCell id="srv2" value="App Server" style="shape=mxgraph.network.server;fillColor=#DAE8FC;strokeColor=#6C8EBF;fontSize=10;" vertex="1" parent="1">
      <mxGeometry x="220" y="420" width="50" height="60" as="geometry"/>
    </mxCell>
    <mxCell id="db" value="Database" style="shape=cylinder3;fillColor=#FFF2CC;strokeColor=#D6B656;fontSize=10;whiteSpace=wrap;html=1;boundedLbl=1;size=10;" vertex="1" parent="1">
      <mxGeometry x="490" y="420" width="50" height="60" as="geometry"/>
    </mxCell>
    <!-- Connections -->
    <mxCell id="c1" style="strokeColor=#666;strokeWidth=2;" edge="1" source="internet" target="fw" parent="1">
      <mxGeometry relative="1" as="geometry"/>
    </mxCell>
    <mxCell id="c2" style="strokeColor=#666;strokeWidth=2;" edge="1" source="fw" target="router" parent="1">
      <mxGeometry relative="1" as="geometry"/>
    </mxCell>
    <mxCell id="c3" style="strokeColor=#666;strokeWidth=2;" edge="1" source="router" target="sw1" parent="1">
      <mxGeometry relative="1" as="geometry"/>
    </mxCell>
    <mxCell id="c4" style="strokeColor=#666;strokeWidth=2;" edge="1" source="router" target="sw2" parent="1">
      <mxGeometry relative="1" as="geometry"/>
    </mxCell>
    <mxCell id="c5" style="strokeColor=#666;strokeWidth=1;" edge="1" source="sw1" target="srv1" parent="1">
      <mxGeometry relative="1" as="geometry"/>
    </mxCell>
    <mxCell id="c6" style="strokeColor=#666;strokeWidth=1;" edge="1" source="sw1" target="srv2" parent="1">
      <mxGeometry relative="1" as="geometry"/>
    </mxCell>
    <mxCell id="c7" style="strokeColor=#666;strokeWidth=1;" edge="1" source="sw2" target="db" parent="1">
      <mxGeometry relative="1" as="geometry"/>
    </mxCell>
  </root>
</mxGraphModel>

AWS Architecture

Three-Tier Web Application

<mxGraphModel>
  <root>
    <mxCell id="0"/>
    <mxCell id="1" parent="0"/>
    <!-- VPC boundary -->
    <mxCell id="vpc" value="VPC (10.0.0.0/16)" style="rounded=1;whiteSpace=wrap;html=1;fillColor=none;strokeColor=#248814;strokeWidth=2;dashed=1;verticalAlign=top;fontStyle=1;fontSize=13;fontColor=#248814;spacingTop=4;arcSize=4;" vertex="1" parent="1">
      <mxGeometry x="80" y="100" width="640" height="440" as="geometry"/>
    </mxCell>
    <!-- Public subnet -->
    <mxCell id="pubSub" value="Public Subnet (10.0.1.0/24)" style="rounded=1;whiteSpace=wrap;html=1;fillColor=#E8F5E9;strokeColor=#82B366;dashed=1;verticalAlign=top;fontSize=11;fontColor=#82B366;spacingTop=4;" vertex="1" parent="1">
      <mxGeometry x="100" y="140" width="280" height="160" as="geometry"/>
    </mxCell>
    <!-- Private subnet -->
    <mxCell id="privSub" value="Private Subnet (10.0.2.0/24)" style="rounded=1;whiteSpace=wrap;html=1;fillColor=#FFF3E0;strokeColor=#D6B656;dashed=1;verticalAlign=top;fontSize=11;fontColor=#D6B656;spacingTop=4;" vertex="1" parent="1">
      <mxGeometry x="420" y="140" width="280" height="160" as="geometry"/>
    </mxCell>
    <!-- Data subnet -->
    <mxCell id="dataSub" value="Data Subnet (10.0.3.0/24)" style="rounded=1;whiteSpace=wrap;html=1;fillColor=#FCE4EC;strokeColor=#B85450;dashed=1;verticalAlign=top;fontSize=11;fontColor=#B85450;spacingTop=4;" vertex="1" parent="1">
      <mxGeometry x="200" y="340" width="400" height="180" as="geometry"/>
    </mxCell>
    <!-- CloudFront -->
    <mxCell id="cf" value="CloudFront" style="shape=mxgraph.aws4.resourceIcon;resIcon=mxgraph.aws4.cloudfront;fillColor=#8C4FFF;fontColor=#333;fontSize=10;" vertex="1" parent="1">
      <mxGeometry x="30" y="20" width="48" height="48" as="geometry"/>
    </mxCell>
    <!-- ALB -->
    <mxCell id="alb" value="ALB" style="shape=mxgraph.aws4.resourceIcon;resIcon=mxgraph.aws4.elastic_load_balancing;fillColor=#8C4FFF;fontColor=#333;fontSize=10;" vertex="1" parent="1">
      <mxGeometry x="140" y="180" width="48" height="48" as="geometry"/>
    </mxCell>
    <!-- EC2 instances -->
    <mxCell id="ec2a" value="EC2" style="shape=mxgraph.aws4.resourceIcon;resIcon=mxgraph.aws4.ec2;fillColor=#ED7100;fontColor=#333;fontSize=10;" vertex="1" parent="1">
      <mxGeometry x="280" y="180" width="48" height="48" as="geometry"/>
    </mxCell>
    <!-- Lambda -->
    <mxCell id="lambda" value="Lambda" style="shape=mxgraph.aws4.resourceIcon;resIcon=mxgraph.aws4.lambda;fillColor=#ED7100;fontColor=#333;fontSize=10;" vertex="1" parent="1">
      <mxGeometry x="460" y="180" width="48" height="48" as="geometry"/>
    </mxCell>
    <!-- RDS -->
    <mxCell id="rds" value="RDS (Multi-AZ)" style="shape=mxgraph.aws4.resourceIcon;resIcon=mxgraph.aws4.rds;fillColor=#C925D1;fontColor=#333;fontSize=10;" vertex="1" parent="1">
      <mxGeometry x="280" y="400" width="48" height="48" as="geometry"/>
    </mxCell>
    <!-- ElastiCache -->
    <mxCell id="cache" value="ElastiCache" style="shape=mxgraph.aws4.resourceIcon;resIcon=mxgraph.aws4.elasticache;fillColor=#C925D1;fontColor=#333;fontSize=10;" vertex="1" parent="1">
      <mxGeometry x="440" y="400" width="48" height="48" as="geometry"/>
    </mxCell>
    <!-- S3 -->
    <mxCell id="s3" value="S3" style="shape=mxgraph.aws4.resourceIcon;resIcon=mxgraph.aws4.s3;fillColor=#3F8624;fontColor=#333;fontSize=10;" vertex="1" parent="1">
      <mxGeometry x="620" y="180" width="48" height="48" as="geometry"/>
    </mxCell>
    <!-- Connections -->
    <mxCell id="a1" style="strokeColor=#666;strokeWidth=1;endArrow=block;endFill=1;" edge="1" source="cf" target="alb" parent="1"/>
    <mxCell id="a2" style="strokeColor=#666;strokeWidth=1;endArrow=block;endFill=1;" edge="1" source="alb" target="ec2a" parent="1"/>
    <mxCell id="a3" style="strokeColor=#666;strokeWidth=1;endArrow=block;endFill=1;" edge="1" source="ec2a" target="lambda" parent="1"/>
    <mxCell id="a4" style="strokeColor=#666;strokeWidth=1;endArrow=block;endFill=1;" edge="1" source="ec2a" target="rds" parent="1"/>
    <mxCell id="a5" style="strokeColor=#666;strokeWidth=1;endArrow=block;endFill=1;" edge="1" source="lambda" target="cache" parent="1"/>
    <mxCell id="a6" style="strokeColor=#666;strokeWidth=1;endArrow=block;endFill=1;" edge="1" source="lambda" target="s3" parent="1"/>
  </root>
</mxGraphModel>

AWS Style Guide

Service Category	Icon Fill	Examples
Compute	`#ED7100` (orange)	EC2, Lambda, ECS, Fargate
Storage	`#3F8624` (green)	S3, EBS, EFS
Database	`#C925D1` (purple)	RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache
Networking	`#8C4FFF` (violet)	VPC, ALB, CloudFront, Route53
Security	`#DD344C` (red)	IAM, WAF, Shield, KMS
Management	`#E7157B` (pink)	CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Config

Azure Architecture

Key Azure Shapes

App Service:    shape=mxgraph.azure.app_service;
AKS:            shape=mxgraph.azure.kubernetes_services;
SQL Database:   shape=mxgraph.azure.azure_sql_database;
Functions:      shape=mxgraph.azure.function_apps;
Front Door:     shape=mxgraph.azure.front_doors;
Key Vault:      shape=mxgraph.azure.key_vaults;
Storage:        shape=mxgraph.azure.storage;
Cosmos DB:      shape=mxgraph.azure.azure_cosmos_db;
VNET:           shape=mxgraph.azure.virtual_networks;

Azure Resource Group Pattern

<!-- Resource Group boundary -->
<mxCell id="rg" value="rg-myapp-prod" style="rounded=1;whiteSpace=wrap;html=1;fillColor=none;strokeColor=#0078D4;strokeWidth=2;dashed=1;verticalAlign=top;fontStyle=1;fontSize=12;fontColor=#0078D4;spacingTop=4;" vertex="1" parent="1">
  <mxGeometry x="40" y="40" width="500" height="300" as="geometry"/>
</mxCell>

GCP Architecture

Key GCP Shapes

Compute Engine: shape=mxgraph.gcp2.compute_engine;
GKE:            shape=mxgraph.gcp2.google_kubernetes_engine;
Cloud Run:      shape=mxgraph.gcp2.cloud_run;
Cloud SQL:      shape=mxgraph.gcp2.cloud_sql;
BigQuery:       shape=mxgraph.gcp2.bigquery;
Pub/Sub:        shape=mxgraph.gcp2.cloud_pubsub;
Cloud Storage:  shape=mxgraph.gcp2.cloud_storage;
Cloud Functions: shape=mxgraph.gcp2.cloud_functions;

Kubernetes Cluster Diagrams

K8s Deployment Topology

<mxGraphModel>
  <root>
    <mxCell id="0"/>
    <mxCell id="1" parent="0"/>
    <!-- Cluster boundary -->
    <mxCell id="cluster" value="K8s Cluster" style="rounded=1;whiteSpace=wrap;html=1;fillColor=none;strokeColor=#326CE5;strokeWidth=2;dashed=1;verticalAlign=top;fontStyle=1;fontSize=14;fontColor=#326CE5;arcSize=4;spacingTop=4;" vertex="1" parent="1">
      <mxGeometry x="40" y="40" width="600" height="400" as="geometry"/>
    </mxCell>
    <!-- Namespace -->
    <mxCell id="ns" value="namespace: production" style="rounded=1;whiteSpace=wrap;html=1;fillColor=#EBF0F7;strokeColor=#326CE5;dashed=1;verticalAlign=top;fontSize=11;fontColor=#326CE5;spacingTop=4;" vertex="1" parent="1">
      <mxGeometry x="60" y="80" width="560" height="340" as="geometry"/>
    </mxCell>
    <!-- Ingress -->
    <mxCell id="ingress" value="Ingress" style="shape=mxgraph.kubernetes.ingress;fillColor=#326CE5;fontColor=#FFF;fontSize=10;" vertex="1" parent="1">
      <mxGeometry x="80" y="120" width="48" height="48" as="geometry"/>
    </mxCell>
    <!-- Service -->
    <mxCell id="svc" value="Service&#xa;(ClusterIP)" style="shape=mxgraph.kubernetes.svc;fillColor=#326CE5;fontColor=#FFF;fontSize=10;" vertex="1" parent="1">
      <mxGeometry x="200" y="120" width="48" height="48" as="geometry"/>
    </mxCell>
    <!-- Deployment -->
    <mxCell id="deploy" value="Deployment&#xa;(3 replicas)" style="shape=mxgraph.kubernetes.deploy;fillColor=#326CE5;fontColor=#FFF;fontSize=10;" vertex="1" parent="1">
      <mxGeometry x="340" y="110" width="48" height="48" as="geometry"/>
    </mxCell>
    <!-- Pods -->
    <mxCell id="pod1" value="Pod 1" style="shape=mxgraph.kubernetes.pod;fillColor=#326CE5;fontColor=#FFF;fontSize=9;" vertex="1" parent="1">
      <mxGeometry x="440" y="100" width="40" height="40" as="geometry"/>
    </mxCell>
    <mxCell id="pod2" value="Pod 2" style="shape=mxgraph.kubernetes.pod;fillColor=#326CE5;fontColor=#FFF;fontSize=9;" vertex="1" parent="1">
      <mxGeometry x="500" y="100" width="40" height="40" as="geometry"/>
    </mxCell>
    <mxCell id="pod3" value="Pod 3" style="shape=mxgraph.kubernetes.pod;fillColor=#326CE5;fontColor=#FFF;fontSize=9;" vertex="1" parent="1">
      <mxGeometry x="560" y="100" width="40" height="40" as="geometry"/>
    </mxCell>
    <!-- ConfigMap -->
    <mxCell id="cm" value="ConfigMap" style="shape=mxgraph.kubernetes.cm;fillColor=#326CE5;fontColor=#FFF;fontSize=9;" vertex="1" parent="1">
      <mxGeometry x="200" y="240" width="40" height="40" as="geometry"/>
    </mxCell>
    <!-- Secret -->
    <mxCell id="secret" value="Secret" style="shape=mxgraph.kubernetes.secret;fillColor=#326CE5;fontColor=#FFF;fontSize=9;" vertex="1" parent="1">
      <mxGeometry x="300" y="240" width="40" height="40" as="geometry"/>
    </mxCell>
    <!-- PVC -->
    <mxCell id="pvc" value="PVC" style="shape=mxgraph.kubernetes.pvc;fillColor=#326CE5;fontColor=#FFF;fontSize=9;" vertex="1" parent="1">
      <mxGeometry x="400" y="240" width="40" height="40" as="geometry"/>
    </mxCell>
    <!-- HPA -->
    <mxCell id="hpa" value="HPA" style="shape=mxgraph.kubernetes.hpa;fillColor=#326CE5;fontColor=#FFF;fontSize=9;" vertex="1" parent="1">
      <mxGeometry x="340" y="180" width="40" height="40" as="geometry"/>
    </mxCell>
    <!-- Connections -->
    <mxCell id="k1" style="strokeColor=#326CE5;strokeWidth=1;endArrow=block;endFill=1;" edge="1" source="ingress" target="svc" parent="1"/>
    <mxCell id="k2" style="strokeColor=#326CE5;strokeWidth=1;endArrow=block;endFill=1;" edge="1" source="svc" target="deploy" parent="1"/>
    <mxCell id="k3" style="strokeColor=#326CE5;strokeWidth=1;endArrow=block;endFill=1;" edge="1" source="deploy" target="pod1" parent="1"/>
    <mxCell id="k4" style="strokeColor=#326CE5;strokeWidth=1;endArrow=block;endFill=1;" edge="1" source="deploy" target="pod2" parent="1"/>
    <mxCell id="k5" style="strokeColor=#326CE5;strokeWidth=1;endArrow=block;endFill=1;" edge="1" source="deploy" target="pod3" parent="1"/>
    <mxCell id="k6" style="strokeColor=#999;strokeWidth=1;dashed=1;endArrow=open;" edge="1" source="pod1" target="cm" parent="1"/>
    <mxCell id="k7" style="strokeColor=#999;strokeWidth=1;dashed=1;endArrow=open;" edge="1" source="pod1" target="secret" parent="1"/>
    <mxCell id="k8" style="strokeColor=#999;strokeWidth=1;dashed=1;endArrow=open;" edge="1" source="pod1" target="pvc" parent="1"/>
  </root>
</mxGraphModel>

Microservice Architecture

Service Mesh Pattern

<mxGraphModel>
  <root>
    <mxCell id="0"/>
    <mxCell id="1" parent="0"/>
    <!-- API Gateway -->
    <mxCell id="gw" value="&lt;b&gt;API Gateway&lt;/b&gt;&#xa;Kong / Envoy" style="rounded=1;whiteSpace=wrap;html=1;fillColor=#DAE8FC;strokeColor=#6C8EBF;fontSize=12;shadow=1;" vertex="1" parent="1">
      <mxGeometry x="280" y="20" width="140" height="50" as="geometry"/>
    </mxCell>
    <!-- Services -->
    <mxCell id="auth" value="&lt;b&gt;Auth Service&lt;/b&gt;&#xa;Node.js" style="rounded=1;whiteSpace=wrap;html=1;fillColor=#D5E8D4;strokeColor=#82B366;fontSize=11;shadow=1;" vertex="1" parent="1">
      <mxGeometry x="60" y="140" width="130" height="50" as="geometry"/>
    </mxCell>
    <mxCell id="user" value="&lt;b&gt;User Service&lt;/b&gt;&#xa;Python" style="rounded=1;whiteSpace=wrap;html=1;fillColor=#D5E8D4;strokeColor=#82B366;fontSize=11;shadow=1;" vertex="1" parent="1">
      <mxGeometry x="240" y="140" width="130" height="50" as="geometry"/>
    </mxCell>
    <mxCell id="order" value="&lt;b&gt;Order Service&lt;/b&gt;&#xa;Go" style="rounded=1;whiteSpace=wrap;html=1;fillColor=#D5E8D4;strokeColor=#82B366;fontSize=11;shadow=1;" vertex="1" parent="1">
      <mxGeometry x="420" y="140" width="130" height="50" as="geometry"/>
    </mxCell>
    <mxCell id="notify" value="&lt;b&gt;Notification&lt;/b&gt;&#xa;Node.js" style="rounded=1;whiteSpace=wrap;html=1;fillColor=#D5E8D4;strokeColor=#82B366;fontSize=11;shadow=1;" vertex="1" parent="1">
      <mxGeometry x="600" y="140" width="130" height="50" as="geometry"/>
    </mxCell>
    <!-- Message broker -->
    <mxCell id="mq" value="&lt;b&gt;RabbitMQ&lt;/b&gt;" style="shape=hexagon;perimeter=hexagonPerimeter2;whiteSpace=wrap;html=1;fillColor=#FFF2CC;strokeColor=#D6B656;fontSize=12;shadow=1;" vertex="1" parent="1">
      <mxGeometry x="320" y="260" width="120" height="50" as="geometry"/>
    </mxCell>
    <!-- Databases -->
    <mxCell id="authDb" value="Auth DB&#xa;(Redis)" style="shape=cylinder3;fillColor=#F8CECC;strokeColor=#B85450;fontSize=10;whiteSpace=wrap;html=1;boundedLbl=1;size=8;" vertex="1" parent="1">
      <mxGeometry x="85" y="260" width="60" height="60" as="geometry"/>
    </mxCell>
    <mxCell id="userDb" value="User DB&#xa;(Postgres)" style="shape=cylinder3;fillColor=#F8CECC;strokeColor=#B85450;fontSize=10;whiteSpace=wrap;html=1;boundedLbl=1;size=8;" vertex="1" parent="1">
      <mxGeometry x="260" y="260" width="60" height="60" as="geometry"/>
    </mxCell>
    <mxCell id="orderDb" value="Order DB&#xa;(MongoDB)" style="shape=cylinder3;fillColor=#F8CECC;strokeColor=#B85450;fontSize=10;whiteSpace=wrap;html=1;boundedLbl=1;size=8;" vertex="1" parent="1">
      <mxGeometry x="450" y="260" width="60" height="60" as="geometry"/>
    </mxCell>
    <!-- Connections: gateway to services -->
    <mxCell id="g1" style="strokeColor=#666;strokeWidth=1;endArrow=block;endFill=1;" edge="1" source="gw" target="auth" parent="1"/>
    <mxCell id="g2" style="strokeColor=#666;strokeWidth=1;endArrow=block;endFill=1;" edge="1" source="gw" target="user" parent="1"/>
    <mxCell id="g3" style="strokeColor=#666;strokeWidth=1;endArrow=block;endFill=1;" edge="1" source="gw" target="order" parent="1"/>
    <!-- Async via message broker -->
    <mxCell id="m1" value="events" style="strokeColor=#D6B656;strokeWidth=1;dashed=1;endArrow=open;fontSize=9;fontColor=#999;" edge="1" source="order" target="mq" parent="1"/>
    <mxCell id="m2" value="events" style="strokeColor=#D6B656;strokeWidth=1;dashed=1;endArrow=open;fontSize=9;fontColor=#999;" edge="1" source="mq" target="notify" parent="1"/>
    <!-- Service to DB -->
    <mxCell id="d1" style="strokeColor=#B85450;strokeWidth=1;endArrow=diamond;endFill=0;" edge="1" source="auth" target="authDb" parent="1"/>
    <mxCell id="d2" style="strokeColor=#B85450;strokeWidth=1;endArrow=diamond;endFill=0;" edge="1" source="user" target="userDb" parent="1"/>
    <mxCell id="d3" style="strokeColor=#B85450;strokeWidth=1;endArrow=diamond;endFill=0;" edge="1" source="order" target="orderDb" parent="1"/>
  </root>
</mxGraphModel>

Zone / Security Diagrams

DMZ Architecture

Use nested containers to represent security zones:

<!-- External zone -->
<mxCell id="extZone" value="External Zone (Untrusted)" style="rounded=1;fillColor=#FFEBEE;strokeColor=#B85450;strokeWidth=2;dashed=1;verticalAlign=top;fontStyle=1;fontSize=12;fontColor=#B85450;spacingTop=4;" vertex="1" parent="1">
  <mxGeometry x="20" y="20" width="200" height="300" as="geometry"/>
</mxCell>
<!-- DMZ -->
<mxCell id="dmz" value="DMZ (Semi-Trusted)" style="rounded=1;fillColor=#FFF3E0;strokeColor=#D6B656;strokeWidth=2;dashed=1;verticalAlign=top;fontStyle=1;fontSize=12;fontColor=#D6B656;spacingTop=4;" vertex="1" parent="1">
  <mxGeometry x="260" y="20" width="200" height="300" as="geometry"/>
</mxCell>
<!-- Internal zone -->
<mxCell id="intZone" value="Internal Zone (Trusted)" style="rounded=1;fillColor=#E8F5E9;strokeColor=#82B366;strokeWidth=2;dashed=1;verticalAlign=top;fontStyle=1;fontSize=12;fontColor=#82B366;spacingTop=4;" vertex="1" parent="1">
  <mxGeometry x="500" y="20" width="200" height="300" as="geometry"/>
</mxCell>

Zone Color Convention

Zone	Fill	Stroke	Trust Level
External	`#FFEBEE`	`#B85450` (red)	Untrusted
DMZ	`#FFF3E0`	`#D6B656` (amber)	Semi-trusted
Internal	`#E8F5E9`	`#82B366` (green)	Trusted
Management	`#E3F2FD`	`#6C8EBF` (blue)	Admin only

Connection Style Guide

Connection Type	Style	Use
Synchronous (HTTP/gRPC)	`strokeColor=#666;strokeWidth=2;endArrow=block;endFill=1;`	Request/response
Asynchronous (events)	`strokeColor=#D6B656;strokeWidth=1;dashed=1;endArrow=open;`	Pub/sub, message queues
Database access	`strokeColor=#B85450;strokeWidth=1;endArrow=diamond;endFill=0;`	Read/write to DB
Monitoring / logs	`strokeColor=#999;strokeWidth=1;dashed=1;dashPattern=4 4;endArrow=open;`	Observability
Bidirectional	`strokeColor=#666;strokeWidth=1;endArrow=block;startArrow=block;endFill=1;startFill=1;`	WebSocket, streaming

Layout Best Practices

Flow direction — Traffic flows top-to-bottom (internet at top, databases at bottom) or left-to-right
Group by zone — Use dashed containers for VPCs, subnets, namespaces, security zones
Color by function — Compute (blue), storage (green), database (yellow/red), network (purple)
Label protocols — Add edge labels: HTTPS, gRPC, AMQP, TCP/5432
Show redundancy — Use grouped icons or (3x) labels for replicated components
Add a legend — Include a box in the corner explaining colors, line styles, and icon meanings
Use layers — Separate physical, logical, and security views into draw.io layers

Network Software Mapping

File contents

Network & Software Architecture Mapping

Diagram Type Selection

Shape Libraries

Enabling Cloud Libraries

Network Topology

Basic LAN/WAN Topology

AWS Architecture

Three-Tier Web Application

AWS Style Guide

Azure Architecture

Key Azure Shapes

Azure Resource Group Pattern

GCP Architecture

Key GCP Shapes

Kubernetes Cluster Diagrams

K8s Deployment Topology

Microservice Architecture

Service Mesh Pattern

Zone / Security Diagrams

DMZ Architecture

Zone Color Convention

Connection Style Guide

Layout Best Practices

Frequently asked questions

Network Software Mapping

File contents

Network & Software Architecture Mapping

Diagram Type Selection

Shape Libraries

Enabling Cloud Libraries

Network Topology

Basic LAN/WAN Topology

AWS Architecture

Three-Tier Web Application

AWS Style Guide

Azure Architecture

Key Azure Shapes

Azure Resource Group Pattern

GCP Architecture

Key GCP Shapes

Kubernetes Cluster Diagrams

K8s Deployment Topology

Microservice Architecture

Service Mesh Pattern

Zone / Security Diagrams

DMZ Architecture

Zone Color Convention

Connection Style Guide

Layout Best Practices

Related skills

Frequently asked questions

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