From the course: Prometheus and Grafana: Visualizing Application Performance

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Grafana with Terraform overview

Grafana with Terraform overview

- [Instructor] If you follow the instructions in chapter two, you should have a Grafana Cloud set up. You can use Terraform to provision both open-source Grafana and Grafana Cloud. In this video, we will explore how the Grafana Provider allows you to do this. The first step here is to create a Grafana Cloud account. After that, we'll need to install Terraform on our machine. Follow the instructions on Terraform website to install for Mac OS, Windows, or Linux. On Mac OS, it's very straightforward to install using Homebrew. The Grafana Provider has an extensive list of resources you can create and manage with Terraform. Each core type of Grafana setup is supported, and most features are too. This means that at least when getting started, you are unlikely to encounter something you cannot provision with Terraform. You can see some examples of these resources on the screen. We have alerting, cloud resources, open-source resources, and enterprise resources. The cloud, open source, and…

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