What are CloudForge Delivery Workspaces?

CloudForge Delivery Workspaces help teams move from a requirement or Designer diagram into reviewable architecture, engineering, and DevOps artefacts. The Architect Workspace creates clarification questions, impact analysis, ADRs, risks, Mermaid diagrams, and delivery backlog items. Engineering and DevOps workspaces prepare implementation and release readiness.

How do Designer diagrams connect to CloudForge Workspaces?

Designer remains the visual source of truth for cloud architecture diagrams. Workspaces explain and prepare the delivery work around that design: Architect Workspace turns requirements into architecture packs and diagrams, Engineering Workspace turns approved architecture into implementation tasks, and DevOps Workspace turns the design into deployment readiness.

CloudForge is a visual cloud infrastructure designer for Azure, AWS, and GCP. You can drag-and-drop cloud resources, pull live Azure and AWS inventories, or describe your architecture in plain English and the AI will generate the diagram. It then produces production-ready Terraform, Pulumi, ARM templates, Bicep, or CloudFormation code automatically.

Does CloudForge have a free trial?

Yes. CloudForge has a trial for evaluation. Paid plans unlock production workflows such as Azure and AWS live resource import, team governance, Terraform and Pulumi generation, drift checks, and priority support.

Which cloud providers does CloudForge support?

CloudForge supports Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) with 100+ resources for each provider. You can design multi-cloud and hybrid architectures in a single interface.

Can CloudForge generate Terraform code automatically?

Yes. CloudForge generates production-ready Terraform code directly from your visual diagrams. It also supports ARM templates, Bicep, and CloudFormation. The generated code follows cloud provider best practices and is ready to deploy.

Does CloudForge have an AI architecture designer?

Yes. The AI Architect lets you describe your infrastructure in plain English (e.g. "a highly available 3-tier web app on Azure with a PostgreSQL database and Redis cache") and instantly generates the full architecture diagram with proper resources, connections, and Terraform code.

Does CloudForge have a desktop app?

Yes. CloudForge offers a native Windows desktop app (Windows 10/11 x64). Download the zip, extract it, and run CloudForge.exe. A macOS and Linux version are coming soon.

Can I import existing Terraform files into CloudForge?

Yes. CloudForge can parse your existing .tf Terraform files and automatically generate a visual architecture diagram from them. You can then edit the diagram and regenerate the Terraform code.

Is CloudForge a good Cloudcraft alternative?

Yes. CloudForge is a Cloudcraft alternative with AI-powered architecture generation, Terraform and Pulumi export, multi-cloud support for Azure/AWS/GCP, live resource import, and a native Windows desktop app.

From Requirements to Delivery: Why Cloud Teams Need Architecture Workspaces

The gap between a requirement and a deployable design

Most delivery work starts with an incomplete requirement. It might describe a business goal, a feature request, or a system change, but it often misses API impact, data ownership, security constraints, non functional requirements, migration steps, monitoring, rollback, and test coverage.

Architects and engineering leads then spend valuable time translating that request into the artefacts the team actually needs: impact analysis, diagrams, decisions, backlog items, and release plans. That translation work is important, but it is often repetitive and difficult to keep consistent across teams.

What CloudForge Delivery Workspaces add

Delivery Workspaces make the step before and after Designer explicit. Instead of starting only from a diagram, teams can start from a requirement, generate a reviewable architecture pack, refine the visual design in Designer, and continue into engineering and DevOps readiness.

CloudForge delivery flow

Requirement intake

Clarifying questions and assumptions

Architecture impact analysis

Designer diagram and system ownership

Architecture decision record and risk register

Engineering implementation plan

DevOps release readiness

Terraform and IaC generation

Architect Workspace

The Architect Workspace turns a requirement into a structured architecture pack. It generates clarifying questions, assumptions, system boundaries, impact analysis, API and data reviews, security considerations, non functional requirements, risks, architecture decision records, Mermaid diagrams, and backlog drafts.

The key principle is human review. AI can remove blank-page effort, but architects still approve assumptions, decisions, risk posture, and delivery readiness.

Engineering Workspace

Once the architecture is approved, Engineering Workspace helps translate it into implementation work. It can organise service changes, API/data tasks, acceptance criteria, test scenarios, code review notes, and technical dependencies so the team has a clean handoff from design to delivery.

DevOps Workspace

DevOps Workspace focuses on release readiness. It helps capture CI/CD gates, environment planning, migration steps, monitoring, rollback, runbooks, and operational acceptance criteria. This keeps deployment thinking tied to the architecture instead of arriving as an afterthought.

How this connects to Designer

Designer remains the visual source of truth in CloudForge. Workspaces prepare and explain the work around that design. Architect Workspace can generate diagrams from requirements, Designer refines those diagrams into the cloud architecture, and Engineering and DevOps workspaces turn the approved design into delivery action.

The bigger product chain

The long-term CloudForge workflow is simple: requirement to architecture, architecture to diagram, diagram to backlog, backlog to CloudForge Canvas, and approved cloud components to Terraform or other IaC. Most AI tools stop at text. CloudForge can continue into diagrams, delivery planning, and infrastructure generation.