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I built a live map of my servers so I'd stop SSHing into 5 boxes to debug one thing

A solo developer built InfraCanvas, a tool that creates a live, color-coded map of Linux servers showing Kubernetes, Docker, systemd, and processes in real time. The map allows users to click on any element to view details and perform actions like restart, scale, rollback, or open a terminal without SSH. The developer is seeking feedback on whether visualizing infrastructure as a map is more helpful than traditional kubectl commands.

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I kept SSHing into servers and running the same commands just to see what was running:

kubectl get pods

docker ps

systemctl status

top

Different tools, different boxes, no single picture. So I built InfraCanvas.

You install one agent on a Linux server. It draws everything — Kubernetes, Docker, systemd, processes — as one live map. Color-coded by health, updates in real time.

Click anything to see its details. And you can act right there: restart, scale, rollback, open a terminal, tail logs. No SSH.

A few things I cared about building it:

Try it (read-only demo, no signup): [https://demo.infracanvas.app](https://demo.infracanvas.app)

Free tier on your own box: [https://cloud.infracanvas.app](https://cloud.infracanvas.app)

I'm a solo dev. Honest question: does seeing infra as a map actually help, or is kubectl muscle memory good enough? Tell me where it breaks.

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