Install Terraform

brew install terraform
terraform init

Note -- We probably used chronotf somewhere in this setup, but not sure.

About terraform file

Terraform files have resources. Resources are defined, and then terraform picks it up. For example -- A dashboard is a resource. Each dashboard has number of thigns that need to be added.

1. uid is unique to each dashboard. CHange it when copy/pasting, otherwise terraform apply will fail.
2. Change the name and id of the resource. This has to be unique.
3. bucket is probably an older artifact
4. Dashboard is made of panels. Panels is a JSON array.
5. The dashboard JSON has to go between EOF tags. This is because main.tf is a HCL language file. However, anything between EOF tags makes it clear that it is JSON and not HCL.

Apply changes

terraform apply