Building a Cloud Architecture Diagram

Course details

If you want to develop an effective cloud strategy, you need to build it in full awareness of numerous systems, applications, and teams. An architectural diagram can help on this front by providing the visual structure for demonstrating the strategy and relationship between each of the parts. In this course, instructor Mark Wilkins outlines the various types of diagrams and highlights the best use case of each.

Explore the available tools and models for successful planning by evaluating practical, real-world scenarios. Along the way, get tips from Mark on choosing the cloud architecture diagram model that’s best for meeting your overall business needs. By the end of this course, you’ll be prepared to start creating mind maps and diagrams to present the visual relationship between your systems and applications.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - An in-depth look at cloud architecture diagrams
02 - What you need to know

1. Cloud Architecture Diagrams

03 - What is a cloud architecture diagram
04 - Enterprise architecture diagrams
05 - Business architecture diagrams
06 - Application architecture diagrams
07 - Data architecture diagrams
08 - Technology architecture diagrams
09 - Universal Modeling Language (UML) diagrams
10 - UML use case diagram overview
11 - UML component diagram overview
12 - UML deployment diagram overview
13 - UML sequence diagram overview
14 - UML state diagram overview
15 - UML activity diagram overview
16 - UML class diagram overview
17 - Organizational responsibilities

2. UML Diagram Types for Cloud Architecture

18 - Use case diagrams
19 - Class diagrams
20 - Activity diagrams
21 - Architecture diagrams
22 - Sequence diagrams
23 - State machine diagrams
24 - Creating UML diagrams

3. Creating Cloud Architecture Diagrams

25 - Mind map diagrams
26 - Creating a mind map
27 - Use case diagram
28 - Create a use case class diagram
29 - Architecture diagram
30 - Create architecture diagram
31 - Sequence diagram
32 - State machine diagram

4. Architectural Diagramming Tools for Cloud Architecture

33 - Diagramming tools

Conclusion

34 - Next steps

Building a Cloud Architecture Diagram

Authors

Mark Wilkins