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Deploy a dashboard with Terraform

14 min

Milestone 1

Why Terraform

2 min

Milestone 2

Service account

2 min

Milestone 3

Configure provider

2 min

Milestone 4

Dashboard resource

1 min

Milestone 5

Terraform plan

2 min

Milestone 6

Apply and verify

2 min

Milestone 7

Destination reached!

1 min

Destination reached!

Congratulations on completing this journey! Job well done!

We hope you’ve enjoyed traveling with us as you:

• Understood why Terraform is a natural fit for deploying dashboards as code
• Created a Grafana service account token for automated authentication
• Configured the Grafana Terraform provider with your credentials
• Defined a grafana_dashboard resource to deploy your JSON file
• Ran terraform plan to safely preview changes before applying
• Deployed the dashboard with terraform apply and verified it in Grafana

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More to explore (optional)

The world is your oyster! Read more about how you can:

• Manage multiple dashboards with for_each to deploy entire directories of JSON files
• Automate with GitHub Actions to deploy dashboards on every merge
• Explore the Grafana Terraform provider docs to manage folders, data sources, alerts, and more

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