lookeraccess

Installation

To install lookeraccess, you need clone the repo and install the required packages. It is best to use a virtual environment to install the packages.

git clone [email protected]:dbanalyticsco/lookeraccess.git
cd lookeraccess
virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -e .

Setup

In order to run, lookeraccess will look for three environment variables: LOOKER_BASE_URL, LOOKER_CLIENT_ID, LOOKER_CLIENT_SECRET. You will need to set them up before running the package.

The LOOKER_BASE_URL is simply the URL of your Looker instance.

The LOOKER_CLIENT_ID and LOOKER_CLIENT_SECRET are the API credentials of the user as whom you would like to run the package. You need to ensure that the ensure has the correct permissions to make all the changes you make. Ideally, this would be an Admin user. You can find more information on getting the API credentials in the Looker documentation.

Running lookeraccess

Command: connect

To check if your credentials are setup correctly, run the connect command. From the projects root folder, run:

lookeraccess connect

Command: pull

To pull your current Looker configuration, run the pull command. It will generate four files in your repo: permission_sets.yml, model_sets.yml, roles.yml and groups.yml. These should reflect your Looker configuration at that point in time.

The standard, non-editable objects will not be present in your files. i.e. The permission set 'Admin', the model set 'All' and the group 'All Users' will be missing.

lookeraccess pull

Command: validate

After you make changes to your config files that you pulled above, you can validate the schema and changes with the validate command. This will ensure that your files are in the correct format and that all the references are valid. i.e. you aren't referencing a permission or model that doesn't exit.

If the command runs without raising an Exception, your files are good:

lookeraccess validate

Command: changes

To see the changes that lookeraccess will implement, run the changes command. It will pull the current config (pull) and identiy all the groups, roles, model sets and permission sets that needs to be either created, deleted or updated.

lookeraccess changes

Command: run

To push changes back to Looker, use the run command. It will effectively run connect, pull, validate before pushing the changes to Looker.

lookeraccess run

Options

--port

lookeraccess defaults to assume you use the port 19999. If that is not the case, use the --port option to set the port you would like to use.

lookeraccess changes --port 432

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