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Amazingly functional site for working with Latex documents! For example, I am working on screencast re: containers/docker right now, and created several diagrams using their editor, see: http://i.imgur.com/NlYuaXp.png

If this type of stuff interests you, make sure you check out http://texample.net/tikz/examples/all/ & http://tex.stackexchange.com too. Also, if you want to try and play around with it, use the "Create A New Paper" link @ https://www.writelatex.com/docs?template=paper

Here's the code I'm using:

  \documentclass[12pt]{article}
  \usepackage{tikz}
  \usepackage{verbatim}
  \usetikzlibrary{positioning}
  \begin{document}
  \pagestyle{empty}

  \begin{tikzpicture}[scale=.9,every node/.style={minimum size=1cm},on grid]
           
      \begin{scope}[
              yshift=-83,every node/.append style={
              yslant=0.5,xslant=-1},yslant=0.5,xslant=-1
              ]

          \fill[white,fill opacity=.9] (0,0) rectangle (5,5);
          \draw[black,very thick] (0,0) rectangle (5,5);
      \end{scope}
       
      \begin{scope}[
          yshift=0,every node/.append style={
              yslant=0.5,xslant=-1},yslant=0.5,xslant=-1
                         ]
          \fill[white,fill opacity=.9] (0,0) rectangle (5,5);
          \draw[black,very thick] (0,0) rectangle (5,5);
    \end{scope}
       
    \begin{scope}[
        yshift=90,every node/.append style={
        yslant=0.5,xslant=-1},yslant=0.5,xslant=-1
                         ]
        \fill[white,fill opacity=0.9] (0,0) rectangle (5,5);
        \draw[black,dashed] (0,0) rectangle (5,5);
    \end{scope}
       
    \draw[-latex,thick] (6.2,2) node[right]{$\mathsf{Web\ Server}$}
         to[out=180,in=90] (3,2);
    \draw[-latex,thick](5.9,5)node[right]{$\mathsf{Your\ App}$}
        to[out=180,in=90] (2,5);
    \draw[-latex,thick,red](4.3,-1.9)node[right]{$\mathsf{rootfs}$}
        to[out=180,in=90] (2,-.5);

  \end{tikzpicture}

  \end{document}



I am a little confused. Did you use a tikz editor/assistant that they have? Or did you type your tikz just like you would with ed/vim/emacs? I did not see anything that would assist with creating tikz illustrations when I was poking around. Lowering the tikz bar would be awesome.




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