Gazer vs looker deployer

[alu2]

We are currently using gazer to deploy lookml dashboards to different instances and saw the notice in gazer that new users should be using looker deployer instead.

https://github.com/looker-open-source/gzr

https://github.com/looker-open-source/looker_deployer

I want to understand what additional features/benefits does looker deployer have?  (I see looker deployer is also depended on gazer).

I want to be able to understand if we are using gazer now, should we be planning to move to looker deployer?

thanks!

Alice

[Dr__Strangelove]

Looker Deployer is built on top of gazer to do more orchestration of common jobs. Gazer is more fine grained.

[masutaka_net]

@alu2 The previous statement has been retracted. It appears that Gazer will continue to be supported. ‌😀‌
https://github.com/looker-open-source/gzr/commit/f671143bd6c8a2f758a498bb0b18e00d8b6168ed

[Dr__Strangelove]

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@masutaka_net wrote:

It appears that Gazer will continue to be supported. ‌😀

 As the originator and author of Gazer, thanks for your support.

[priyanath]

does Looker deployer deploys  user-defined dashboards as well?

Thank you

[Dr__Strangelove]

Yes. Under the hood it actually uses Gazer to do that. We are working on rationalizing looker deployer and gazer so that they fit together more cleanly.

[mai123]

Hi Dr_Strangelove, I am currently using the Lookerdeployer with gazer installed to migrate projects/contents between two looker instances lookerdev to lookerprod. I followed this guidelines (URL Removed by Staff)

I can do the export data from dev but with lookerprod I got the error Looker Not Found (404) - Looker Unavailable. Could you please help advise a bit. Thank you