# Making kerchunk as simple as a toggle?

**URL:** <https://discourse.pangeo.io/t/making-kerchunk-as-simple-as-a-toggle/3690>\
**Category:** Open Science\
**Created:** [September 21, 2023, 4:31am UTC](https://discourse.pangeo.io/t/making-kerchunk-as-simple-as-a-toggle/3690 "2023-09-21T04:31:05Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 7, 2024, 12:50am UTC](https://discourse.pangeo.io/t/making-kerchunk-as-simple-as-a-toggle/3690/14 "2024-08-07T00:50:08Z")

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@Michael_Sumner my previous comment has now developed into the VirtualiZarr package (see [Pangeo Showcase: "VirtualiZarr: Create virtual Zarr stores using xarray syntax"](https://discourse.pangeo.io/t/pangeo-showcase-virtualizarr-create-virtual-zarr-stores-using-xarray-syntax/4127))

I have also suggested some ideas for how this might all be integrated upstream and made more automatic in [Splitting out lazy indexing layer and backends layer as zarr-python features · Issue #9281 · pydata/xarray · GitHub](https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/9281) and [Zarr as a "universal reader" for netCDF etc., via new CF decoding codecs · Issue #303 · zarr-developers/zarr-specs · GitHub](https://github.com/zarr-developers/zarr-specs/issues/303) .

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