Resource Palette
The Resource Palette contains Connectors, Shapes, Picture Shapes and Azure resources
that you can drag onto canvas to start drawing a diagram.
Non-Azure nodes do not represent an Azure resource and therefore are not deployable to your Azure subscription.
Azure nodes are deployable to Azure and is marked with a red badge.
More Azure nodes are made deployable weekly.
Draw Links to connect Icons
Hitting S key toggles between straight and orthogonal/angled links.
As you hover over any of the 4 sides (north, south, east west) of any shapes and Icons, grey Ports will appear.
Click on the grey Port and drag to any Icon or shape you wish to draw a link to. Hit S to toggle between straight and orthogonal/angled links.
**Copy & Paste**
- Copy whole or parts of diagram from another Browser tab
- Copy images from any snipping tool or print-screen
- Copy images from any website
You can copy any image from other websites and do "Ctrl V" to paste on Canvas,
in cases when you can't find an Node that suits your need
- "Ctrl C" on one or multi-selected nodes and "Ctrl V" to duplicate selected nodes.
- You can copy nodes from Microsoft Visio and do "Ctrl V" to paste on Canvas
Panning (move canvas view)
Hold on to Right-mouse button and move mouse to shift canvas view. Canvas has unlimited space for drawing
Zoom
Hold Ctrl + Mouse Wheel Up/Down to zoom in/out where cursor is
Group & Ungroup
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To group 1 or more nodes, select 1 or more nodes and right-click on canvas or on any node and click "Group"
Or press "Ctrl+G" to group nodes. -
To ungroup, simply select the group, right-click and click Ungroup.
Or press Ctrl+Shift+G.
Virtual Network: Add Subnet or Nat Gateway
Right-click on Virtual Network (drag from Resource Palette "Networking") and
select "Add/Remove Subnet" or "Add/Remove NAT Gateway"
Subnet: Add Network Security Group or User-Defined Route
To add Network Security Group and User-Defined Route, right-click any Subnet
and click on "Add/Remove NSG" or "Add/Remove Route Table.
Subnet: Add VNet-Injectable Services
Certain services like Kubernetes Service, Firewall, App Service Environment or API Management Premium must either resides in a shared or dedicated subnet.
My colleagues and I like to call these services "VIR" or VNet-Injectable Services, Workbench validates them to make sure these VIR are indeed in subnets.
To add VIR to Subnet, click on Subnet, then drag the service onto canvas.