Whiteboard directly to any cloud with our new GUI

We are happy to announce our new whiteboard is now an open, public beta! Our whiteboard is a web based tool and is the latest addition to our tool suite to make operating your infrastructure easier.

Available now

Every modern app starts with a whiteboard and system design diagram. With our GUI, you can whiteboard directly to any cloud. Whether you’re an individual developer or part of a large team, Monk whiteboards both simplifies and accelerates your cloud management.

The whiteboard is, and will remain, free of charge.

📣 The first 1000 sign ups include a Monk X beta invite. Monk X, is the AI DevOps agent, that runs your app in the cloud. Tell your friends!

What you can do, and who can use it

In the whiteboard, you can design your infrastructure from pre-packaged kits and your own services. The design on the whiteboard is fully deployable which means you can deploy it directly on one or more cloud providers of your choice.

The developer experience

We designed our whiteboard tool to use the same visual elements that you’d expect to see on other tools that provide whiteboards: you can draw the instances, what’s running on them, and connect it all together. The leap forward here is that you can then click the Deploy button, which will deploy to your chosen cloud providers.

When using the whiteboard, kits also play a vital role. Kits are pre-packaged components that can be containers, infrastructure elements or compositions. They are represented as boxes, which shift from grey to green upon successful deployment. Kits can be either public and private, and a robust curated selection of public kits is available in our hub, which is in the whiteboard interface.

Elements on the whiteboard are connected using arrows. All communications between clusters use end-to-end encryption, specifically with TLS encrypted transport. So when you connect different elements using an arrow, you create secure network paths even across cloud providers or regions. Each connected service is notified about other connections and conservatively segments firewalls to enhance security. All of this was created to support our posture that all configurations must be secure by default, and as you can see networking is no exception.

The sandbox: use our whiteboard without an account

If you’re looking to get started immediately, but aren’t ready to create an account, try our sandbox. Our sandbox is an identical, isolated whiteboard environment. You can either use our default design or make one of your own!

Aside from tinkering with our tool, the sandbox also gives you the ability to share your designs. Once you have made edits to a design, a share build button appears in the top navigation bar:

You can build and share your designs to help better explain complex, multi-environment architecture. When you are working in the sandbox you cannot put customized credentials in your design, so there is no risk of sharing sensitive information like API tokens.

Learn more: Try the whiteboard for yourself! You can also find support and community on our Discord. 🚀