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01 / Quickstart

Quickstart

Five minutes from blank slate to a labelled, exportable subnet plan.

1 / Set the parent CIDR


Top of the sidebar. The Network field takes a dotted-quad (10.0.0.0). The Mask field is the CIDR prefix length (0–32). Together they draw the outer block your tree lives inside.

The mask never grows your tree — it only frames it. Splitting is how you create deeper subnets.

2 / Pick a cloud provider


The Provider select under Network/Mask decides how many IPs each subnet loses to reserved addresses.

  • AWS / Azure / Huawei / IBM reserve 5 per subnet.
  • GCP reserves 4.
  • Oracle (OCI) reserves 3.
  • Alibaba / Standard reserve 2.

Every host-count shown in the app (stats panel, capacity analysis, cheat sheet, cost estimator) bakes this in.

3 / Split the tree


In the Subnet table, click Split on any row to halve it into two /n+1 children. Split repeatedly to build a VLSM tree, or use the VLSM Wizard (Tools →) to plan from a list of host counts.

Join a row to collapse two siblings back into their parent. Hover the Join button to preview which rows would fold together.

4 / Label the leaves


Double-click the Subnet / Label column on any leaf to open the Label Editor. You can set:

  • Label — the human name (prod-web, bastion).
  • Notes — free-form text carried into exports.
  • VLAN — a numeric id. The Radar drawer flags duplicate VLANs across every open workspace live as you edit.
  • AZ — availability zone hint; Terraform export uses it when placing the subnet in a region.

Need to tag many at once? The Bulk label editor under Tools shows one row per leaf with all four fields in a single table.

5 / Export


The Export menu (top right of the subnet table) offers eleven formats. Start with one of:

  • JSON — round-trippable via Import.
  • CSV — spreadsheet.
  • Markdown — documentation paste.
  • Infrastructure as Code… — Terraform HCL for AWS, Azure, GCP, Huawei, Alibaba, Oracle, IBM.
  • Print / PDF — browser print dialog.

6 / Share a link


Share in the sidebar footer copies a URL that encodes the entire tree + labels + VLANs in Base64. Paste it anywhere; opening it restores the exact workspace. No backend involved.

Next


Jump to tool reference for the twenty-plus features behind the Tools menu, or keyboard shortcuts for the hotkeys.