Establishing your first diagram
In this section, we will be building a brand-new enterprise architecture repository that will contain all our diagrams and elements. Diagrams visually show how elements are related to convey an idea, such as what a specific component is composed of, how a specific service is provided, or how a group of data centers are connected and what they contain. An element can be represented by different diagrams, each showing a different aspect of it, so the same element can appear in many diagrams.
Packages, on the other hand, represent a physical containment of their content, such as elements, diagrams, and other packages. A child element can have one parent only, but parents can have many children. Packages look and act like folders in file systems as they contain other elements, while elements and diagrams are the equivalents of files in file systems. You can nest packages within packages as much as you may need, but you need to keep in mind that very deeply...