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Section 1 · Foundation SDK fundamentals

Target audience and assumed knowledge

Estimated time: 1 min

You’re in the right place if you

  • Already manage infrastructure with Terraform and want to add dashboards to the same workflow
  • Are tired of manual dashboard management that doesn’t scale
  • Want version control, code review, and CI/CD for your observability stack

Assumed knowledge

You don’t need to be an expert, but you should be familiar with the following tools and concepts.

SkillLevel needed
GrafanaKnow what dashboards, panels, and data sources are
Git + GitHubComfortable with branches, commits, PRs
TerraformComfortable with providers, resources, plan/apply
Go or TypeScriptCan read code snippets in either language

You don’t need any prior experience with the Foundation SDK or the Grafana Terraform provider. This journey covers both from scratch.