Simple Architecture

A small, legible starting point.

Format.puml
Length20 lines
LibraryAzure icons

The source

20 lines of PlantUML, and pulls in Azure icons. Copy it, or open the template inside Gnomon and render it as it is.

@startuml
!define AzurePuml https://raw.githubusercontent.com/plantuml-stdlib/Azure-PlantUML/release/2-2/dist
!include AzurePuml/AzureCommon.puml
!include AzurePuml/Compute/AzureVirtualMachine.puml
!include AzurePuml/Databases/AzureSqlDatabase.puml
!include AzurePuml/Storage/AzureBlobStorage.puml
!include AzurePuml/Networking/AzureLoadBalancer.puml

title Azure Simple Architecture

AzureLoadBalancer(lb, "Load Balancer", "Standard")
AzureVirtualMachine(vm, "Web Server", "D2s v3")
AzureSqlDatabase(db, "Database", "SQL Database")
AzureBlobStorage(storage, "Static Assets", "Blob Storage")

lb --> vm
vm --> db
vm --> storage

@enduml

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