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title: "Deployment options | Grafana Labs"
description: "Choosing the right way to get dashboard JSON into Grafana"
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> For a curated documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt). For the complete documentation index, see [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt).

## Deploy your dashboards

You have dashboard JSON from the Foundation SDK. Next you need that JSON to show up as a live dashboard in Grafana. Grafana supports several ways to do that. The right choice depends on the workflow your team already uses.

## Ways to get JSON into Grafana

| Method          | How it works                                                                                      | Use it for                                                 | Considerations                                                               |
|-----------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| **Git Sync**    | Store dashboard JSON in a Git repository; Grafana keeps that path synchronized with your instance | Git-native teams that want the repo as the source of truth | You configure sync and auth in Grafana; changes follow Git and sync settings |
| **Terraform**   | Define dashboards with the Grafana Terraform provider and run plan/apply                          | Teams that already manage infrastructure with Terraform    | Another tool and state workflow if you don’t already use it                  |
| **Grafana API** | Send HTTP requests to Grafana yourself; other methods build on this                               | Full custom control in your own scripts                    | More code to write and maintain                                              |

**This journey covers Git Sync.** You’ll commit SDK-generated JSON to Git and let Grafana synchronize it. To deploy that same SDK JSON with Terraform instead, take the Terraform version of this journey.

[Dashboards as Code with the Foundation SDK and Terraform](/docs/learning-hub/dashboards-as-code/)