Introducing Astrolabe: Open-Source Cloud Infrastructure Mapping
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Astrolabe is an open‑source cloud mapping tool that codifies custom discovery scripts (YAML profile strategies) and lightweight plugins to crawl EC2 and Kubernetes, run agentless netstat profiling, and seed a Neo4j instance as the canonical map. The project stores richly typed nodes and edges in Neo4j graph backend, exports JSON/Graphviz, and wires outputs to LLMs for analysis — a demo flags 18,000 rps vs 427 rps and produces finops and reliability recommendations from the discovered topology.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introducing Astrolabe
- 1:55Origin story and need
- 6:38Core features and goals
- 7:00Who Astrolabe is for
- 9:08How Astrolabe works
- 12:16Switching to graph database
- 13:40Graph database integration
- 16:49Demo setup
- 17:11Walking the environment
- 23:34Using AI for insights
- 27:54Community and future
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