3. Kubernetes and Azure¶
Note
In this section we’ll look at a Kubernetes and Azure icon sets https://github.com/dcasati/kubernetes-PlantUML.
PlantUML will access icon files directly from this repository (it is not part of PlantUML Stdlib.)
3.1. Original¶

3.2. PlantUML Equivalent¶
3.2.1. Play¶
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`skinparam linetype polyline`
as the “RBAC” text overlapped the “Kubernetes Cluster” and polyline generally improves layout.
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footer Kubernetes Plant-UML
scale max 1024 width
skinparam linetype polyline
skinparam nodesep 10
skinparam ranksep 10
' Azure
!define AzurePuml https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RicardoNiepel/Azure-PlantUML/release/2-1/dist
!includeurl AzurePuml/AzureCommon.puml
!includeurl AzurePuml/AzureSimplified.puml
!includeurl AzurePuml/Compute/AzureAppService.puml
!includeurl AzurePuml/Compute/AzureBatch.puml
!includeurl AzurePuml/Containers/AzureContainerRegistry.puml
!includeurl AzurePuml/Containers/AzureKubernetesService.puml
!includeurl AzurePuml/Databases/AzureDatabaseForPostgreSQL.puml
!includeurl AzurePuml/Databases/AzureCosmosDb.puml
!includeurl AzurePuml/Databases/AzureSqlDatabase.puml
!includeurl AzurePuml/DevOps/AzurePipelines.puml
!includeurl AzurePuml/Identity/AzureActiveDirectory.puml
!includeurl AzurePuml/Networking/AzureLoadBalancer.puml
!includeurl AzurePuml/Security/AzureKeyVault.puml
!includeurl AzurePuml/Storage/AzureBlobStorage.puml
!includeurl AzurePuml/Storage/AzureStorage.puml
' Kubernetes
!define KubernetesPuml https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dcasati/kubernetes-PlantUML/master/dist
!includeurl KubernetesPuml/kubernetes_Context.puml
!includeurl KubernetesPuml/kubernetes_Simplified.puml
!includeurl KubernetesPuml/OSS/KubernetesApi.puml
!includeurl KubernetesPuml/OSS/KubernetesIng.puml
!includeurl KubernetesPuml/OSS/KubernetesPod.puml
actor "DevOps" as devopsAlias
collections "Client Apps" as clientalias
collections "Helm Charts" as helmalias
left to right direction
' Azure Components
AzureActiveDirectory(aad, "\nAzure\nActive Directory", "Global")
AzureContainerRegistry(acr, "ACR", "Canada Central")
AzureCosmosDb(cosmos, "\nCosmos DB", "Global")
AzureKeyVault(keyvault, "\nAzure\nKey Vault", "Global")
AzureLoadBalancer(alb, "\nLoad\nBalancer", "Canada Central")
AzureSqlDatabase(sql, "\nExternal\ndata stores", "Canada Central")
AzurePipelines(ado, "CI/CD\nAzure Pipelines", "Global")
' Kubernetes Components
Cluster_Boundary(cluster, "Kubernetes Cluster") {
KubernetesApi(KubernetesApi, "Kubernetes API", "")
Namespace_Boundary(nsFrontEnd, "Front End") {
KubernetesIng(ingress, "API Gateway", "")
}
Namespace_Boundary(nsBackEnd, "Back End") {
KubernetesPod(KubernetesBE1, "", "")
KubernetesPod(KubernetesBE2, "", "")
KubernetesPod(KubernetesBE3, "", "")
}
Namespace_Boundary(nsUtil, "Utiliy Services") {
KubernetesPod(KubernetesUtil1, "", "")
KubernetesPod(KubernetesUtil2, "","")
}
}
Rel(devopsAlias, aad, "AUTH")
Rel(helmalias, KubernetesApi, "helm upgrade")
Rel(aad, keyvault, " ")
Rel(KubernetesApi, aad, "RBAC", "ASYNC")
Rel(clientalias, alb, "HTTP", "ASYNC")
Rel(alb, ingress, "HTTP", "ASYNC")
Rel(ingress, KubernetesBE1, " ")
Rel(KubernetesBE1, KubernetesBE2, " ")
Rel(KubernetesBE1, KubernetesBE3, " ")
Rel(KubernetesBE2, sql, " ")
Rel(KubernetesBE3, keyvault, "Pod Identity")
Rel(KubernetesBE3, cosmos, " ")
Rel(ado, acr, "docker push")
Rel_U(KubernetesApi, acr, "docker pull")
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