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Section 1 · Terraform resource fundamentals

What you need before starting the hands-on modules

Estimated time: 1 min

Required

Grafana instance (version 12 or higher, Cloud or self-managed)
Service account token (an API credential that lets automated tools authenticate to Grafana without using your personal login)
GitHub repository (for the CI/CD section)
Terraform (version 1.0 or later)

Recommended

A code editor with HCL support (for example, VS Code with the HashiCorp Terraform extension)
If you’re interested in managing dashboards as code, refer to the Dashboards as Code with the Foundation SDK journey

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Before diving into the hands-on modules, make sure you have these set up.

You need a Grafana instance running version 12 or higher. This can be Grafana Cloud or a self-managed instance. You’ll also need a service account token. That’s an API credential that lets automated tools authenticate to your Grafana instance without using your personal login.

For deployment, you need Terraform installed and a GitHub repository for the CI/CD section.

Unlike the Dashboards as Code with the Foundation SDK journey, you don’t need Go or Node.js. Everything is defined in HCL, Terraform’s own configuration language.