Updating dashboard workflow

[peredwardsson]

I deploy a single dashboard to many instances using Flux. Each instance needs to substitute its data source, but everything else is identical. The problem I have is that the update sequence is awful: I need to copy a dashboard to prevent it from being overwritten, then do my edits, then export, then do a bunch of seding, and then I'm ready to commit. It feels like a hack. What's the proper way to go about this solution? I'd like to export the unrendered version somehow.

[theSuess]

You should be able to use a data source variable if the data source is really the only thing changing between instances.

Otherwise, you'll want to look into other as-code tooling like the foundation-sdk and grafanactl to build your dashboards in a scaleable way