Summary

In this chapter, we learned why Alteryx Connect is a good tool for managing our data asset discovery and how that helps our DataOps deployment. We learned how to use the Connect navigation and search functionality to find and understand our data assets. We discovered the community knowledge-sharing functions available in Connect to build a rich understanding of what data resources exist and how we can access them.

We then learned the methods for populating our data dictionary. Next, we explored the different ways of populating the Alteryx Connect data catalog. The first was to populate the analytic apps directly in Connect, using the Alteryx Server API to run the workflow in the background. Second, we learned how to deploy the Connect loader apps in Alteryx Designer and scheduled those apps with the methods we learned in Chapter 2, Data Engineering with Alteryx. Finally, we learned the final technique to directly update the Connect data catalog with the APIs. This provided...