Lowfer is a simple tool that helps software engineers and architects document, discuss & analyse software design and architecture.
Define your architecture using YAML (or anything similar) files and host them in a Git repository, Lowfer will then use this repository as it's "database".
Using a Git repository as a source of truth for your architecture definition allows you to treat your architecture like any software component (with versioning, reviews, etc...).
Live-edit your architecture definition within a Web IDE:
Find issues in your architecture using a built-in static-analysis tool:
Lowfer is contained within a single Docker image.
You can run it locally and access it in your browser (http://localhost:8080) with this command:
docker run \
-e ARCHITECTURES_REPOSITORY_URI=https://github.com/mbouchenoire/lowfer.git \
-e ARCHITECTURES_REPOSITORY_BRANCH=master \
-e ARCHITECTURES_REPOSITORY_PATH=src/test/resources/architectures/demo \
-p 8080:8080 \
mbouchenoire/lowfer:0.3.1