Looker dashboard lookml reference update

[Audy]

Hi Team,

We are looking to user lookerAPI or ldeploy/gazer to update lookml model reference in a dashboard while we promote the dashboard to another environment. Any specific best practices or method to use for coding the pipeline.

Kind regards,

Rajnesh Audichya

[luka_google]

In my opinion main considerations/best practices would be;

• syncing the dashboard model reference change to however y'all kick off the promotion process (for ex: running the process on deploy event in the dev environment via GitHub Actions)
• making a backup of the target dashboard & storing that in blob storage or version control before replacing it with the new version, just so that in the case of a breaking change you can always revert back