Reticle - The infrastructure diagram you can operate.
Hey all. I'm a big fan self hosting and data sovereignty. I have a Pi 5 with docker services in my closet which is an amazing personal cloud. I have similar responsibilities at my job.
I find myself bouncing between static architecture PDFs, monitoring dashboards, and a shell to do work. Or more realistically, setting something up in a shell through trial and error, and leave it running without fully understanding the architecture or state of the full system.
A good architecture diagram is critical for production environments, but you switch to other tools to access the running system. A shared diagram representing and connected to the real system would be a powerful collaborative tool. So I made the diagram the operational surface itself.
You draw your real topology on an infinite canvas. Nodes runs health checks over ssh/kubectl and turn red on the map when one fails. The whole map is one git-diffable YAML file, you can edit it in vim and the canvas live-updates.
The complete desktop app for personal use is Free and MIT licensed, built with Rust/Tauri. The paid part is a single-binary team daemon that serves the same UI to browsers on your network, runs the checks 24/7, and keeps SSH keys on one host instead of everyone's laptops.
One r/selfhosted specific thing I love is the deployment model. Many cloud tools intentionally platform lock in customers to their platforms. Reticle daemon is just a binary you own, bundled with all static assets with simple usage, running in your environment. Reticle Desktop just uses your local ssh/kconf as would k9s for Kubernetes.
Fundamentally you have full data sovereignty while using this application, which I appreciate because I would want it. It's as free as neovim for local personal users.
Curious what this would need before it earned a spot next to your terminal. Thanks all.