topic How many workspaces should we have? in Administration & Architecture

How many workspaces should we have?

StephanieAlba — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 11:59:58 GMT

There is a default limitation for workspace numbers in a Databricks account, which is 50 for an enterprise account: https://docs.databricks.com/en/resources/limits.html

What is the best practice if we need more than 50 workspaces? Will we need more accounts?

Should we consider having more accounts from the start with some boundaries like sandbox/staging/production?

Re: How many workspaces should we have?

-werners- — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 12:19:45 GMT

if you need more than 50 workspaces, I would seriously consider handling that with Infrastructure-as-Code.
You could open multiple accounts (perhaps over regions) and deploy workspaces accordingly.
Having a dev/qas/prod split is a good idea, but beware that Unity has a limit of a single Unity Catalog per region, so an actual physical split is not possible (it can be achieved using permissions though, but that is not a hard split).

Re: How many workspaces should we have?

StephanieAlba — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 13:43:21 GMT

Thank you for your response @-werners- , I should have been clear. I cannot edit my post. I am going to make a new one.

https://community.databricks.com/t5/administration-architecture/what-is-best-practice-for-determining-how-many-workspaces-i-need/m-p/44760#M395

Re: How many workspaces should we have?

Raluka — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 02:12:06 GMT

Thank you so much for helping me. I didn't even expect it.