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title: "Grafana resources and Terraform | Grafana Labs"
description: "Module 2 transition into the Grafana Terraform provider and alerting resources"
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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).

## Grafana resources and Terraform

**What you’ll do in this module:**

- **Resources as code in Grafana.** What it means to define Grafana resources in configuration files instead of the UI.
- **Grafana resources in Terraform.** The Grafana Terraform provider and the resources it supports.
- **Anatomy of an alert rule.** How a Grafana alert rule maps to a Terraform resource block.
- **The alerting pipeline.** How alert rules, contact points, and notification policies work together.
- **Deploy an alert rule learning path.** Hands-on deployment of a complete alerting pipeline.

**Estimated time:** 15 minutes