What does running Looker as a service mean?

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Last tested: Sep 16, 2020
 

It means that it is running as a regular application, which allows Looker to be automatically started on the system startup.

The advantages of running the application as a service listed in this Stackoverflow article

Example script of how to run Looker as a service here.

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