Automated realization of hand-drawn topologies

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing a program which, when executed by one or more processors, performs operations for automatically deploying a topology in a computing system, the operations comprising:

• receiving an image depicting the topology;
• parsing the received image to identify shapes and relationships between the shapes in the received image, wherein the parsing includes converting the topology depicted in the image into polygons, and wherein the relationships between the shapes are determined based on at least angles of one or more of the polygons representing arrows between the shapes;
• mapping each of the shapes to a corresponding system component;
• and
• creating instances of the corresponding system components based on the mapping of shapes to corresponding system components and the identified relationships.

A system, comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory, wherein the memory includes a program executable in the processor to perform operations for automatically deploying a topology in a computing system, the operations comprising:
• receiving an image depicting the topology,
• parsing the received image to identify shapes and relationships between the shapes in the received image, wherein the parsing includes converting the topology depicted in the image into polygons, and wherein the relationships between the shapes are determined based on at least angles of one or more of the polygons representing arrows between the shapes,
• mapping each of the shapes to a corresponding system component, and
• creating instances of the corresponding system components based on the mapping of shapes to corresponding system components and the identified relationships.