Publish Your Metadata Story to Confluence

Turn your metadata and diagrams into living, navigable documentation in Confluence — complete with automated publishing, versioned visuals, and business-friendly formatting.

Summary

📤 Export .drawio diagrams as PNG/SVG

🔁 Automate publishing using scripts or CI/CD pipelines

🧾 Combine visuals with YAML and SQL code snippets

🔗 Link diagrams to glossary, ERDs, and domain docs

🧠 Make your metadata accessible and understandable for business users

🗂 Create a structured Confluence space for data architecture

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Part 5: Making Your Metadata Business-Friendly

So far, we’ve focused on generating diagrams, parsing them back into metadata, and managing everything in VSCode. In this article, we’ll look at the final step of the workflow: publishing diagrams and mappings to Confluence, so that business stakeholders can easily consume and collaborate on your models.

This turns your metadata infrastructure into a documentation layer — connecting raw data logic to readable, visual, and traceable outputs.