How to reduce your development time with the Looker Marketplace
Introduction
The Looker Marketplace is a central location for finding, deploying, and managing many types of Looker content, such as Looker Blocks, applications, visualizations, and plug-ins. This overview covers how the Looker Marketplace reduces your development time by utilizing a package management framework to properly deploy, manage, and version control content packages within Looker.
What is the Looker Marketplace?
The Looker Marketplace is a curated collection of content that has been created by Looker, partners, and the Looker community. This content includes pre-built LookML models, dashboards, visualizations, and plug-ins that can be used to accelerate your analytics development.
Looker Blocks
Looker Blocks™ are pre-built data models for common analytical patterns and data sources. Reuse the work others have already done rather than starting from scratch, then customize the blocks to your exact specifications. From optimized SQL patterns to fully built-out data models, Looker blocks can be used as a starting point for quick and flexible data modelling in Looker.
LookML Diagram
The LookML Diagram is an extension — a web application built using Looker components — developed using the Looker extension framework and deployed through the Looker Marketplace.
Looker Plugins
Looker plugins are custom extensions or add-ons that can be integrated into Looker, a popular business intelligence and data analytics platform. These plugins enhance Looker’s functionality by allowing users to incorporate additional visualizations tailored to their specific needs.
How does the Looker Marketplace reduce development time?
The Looker Marketplace reduces development time by providing a one-stop shop for finding and deploying content that can be used to build analytics solutions. This content is pre-built and tested, so you can be confident that it will work with your data and your Looker instance.
How to use the Looker Marketplace
To use the Looker Marketplace, you first need to create a Looker account. Once you have an account, you can browse the Marketplace to find content that meets your needs. When you find content that you want to use, you can click the “Install” button to deploy it to your Looker instance.
Updates and roadmap
The Looker Marketplace is constantly being updated with new content. You can stay up-to-date on the latest content by following the Looker Marketplace on Google platform.
Please refer to below resources for more details:
Visualize your model with the LookML Diagram Application
Using the Looker Marketplace | Google Cloud
How to reduce your development time with the Looker Marketplace
