Can't set account admin using Terraform

niklas — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 12:14:30 GMT

I want to set the account admin for a service principal in order to create the Unity Catalog metastore. The Terraform code looks like this:

data "databricks_service_principal" "application" { count = var.environment == "dev" ? 1 : 0 application_id = "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000" } resource "databricks_service_principal_role" "account_admin" { count = var.environment == "dev" ? 1 : 0 service_principal_id = data.databricks_service_principal.application[0].id role = "account_admin" }

This should theoretically work according to the answers in this thread.

But unfortunately I get following error from Terraform for the resource "databricks_service_principal_role": Error: cannot read service principal role: Service Principal has no role

For me this error message is not very useful and I don't know what is wrong here. Is this maybe a bug in the Databricks Terraform provider?

Site notes (if relevant):

I'm using the newest Databricks Terraform provider (V 1.21)
The Databricks workspace is deployed in Azure.
Using the "databrick_user_role" resource and trying to assign the account_admin role to a Databricks user will produce the same error message: User has no role

Looking at the source code on GitHub (Databricks Terraform provider) I found the error message from above but I don't understand why the "ReadContext" section in there is even executed.

It would be really nice if someone can help me, as I have to enable the Unity Catalog metastore very soon 🙂

Re: Can't set account admin using Terraform

niklas — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 14:30:06 GMT

Hi Kaniz, thank you very much for your reply!
Here is the solution to the problem from above: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76762299/cant-set-databricks-account-admin-using-terraform/76763140?noredirect=1#comment135335112_76763140

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