Diagrams

Diagram is a primary object representing a diagram.

Basic

Diagram represents a global diagram context.

You can create a diagram context with the Diagram class. The first parameter of the Diagram constructor will be used to generate the output filename.

from diagrams import Diagram
from diagrams.aws.compute import EC2

with Diagram("Simple Diagram"):
    EC2("web")

If you run the above script with the command below,

$ python diagram.py

it will generate an image file with single EC2 node drawn as simple_diagram.png in your working directory and open that created image file immediately.

Jupyter Notebooks

Diagrams can also be rendered directly inside Jupyter notebooks like this:

from diagrams import Diagram
from diagrams.aws.compute import EC2

with Diagram("Simple Diagram") as diag:
    EC2("web")
diag

Options

You can specify the output file format with the outformat parameter. The default is png.

Allowed formats are: png, jpg, svg, pdf, and dot

from diagrams import Diagram
from diagrams.aws.compute import EC2

with Diagram("Simple Diagram", outformat="jpg"):
    EC2("web")

The outformat parameter also supports a list to output all the defined outputs in one call:

from diagrams import Diagram
from diagrams.aws.compute import EC2

with Diagram("Simple Diagram Multi Output", outformat=["jpg", "png", "dot"]):
    EC2("web")

You can specify the output filename with the filename parameter. The extension shouldn't be included, it's determined by the outformat parameter.

from diagrams import Diagram
from diagrams.aws.compute import EC2

with Diagram("Simple Diagram", filename="my_diagram"):
    EC2("web")

You can also disable the automatic file opening by setting the show parameter to false. The default is true.

from diagrams import Diagram
from diagrams.aws.compute import EC2

with Diagram("Simple Diagram", show=False):
    EC2("web")

Diagrams also allow custom Graphviz dot attributes options.

graph_attr, node_attr and edge_attr are supported. Here is a reference link.

from diagrams import Diagram
from diagrams.aws.compute import EC2

graph_attr = {
    "fontsize": "45",
    "bgcolor": "transparent"
}

with Diagram("Simple Diagram", show=False, graph_attr=graph_attr):
    EC2("web")