topic Re: External locations being shared across workspaces in Administration & Architecture

External locations being shared across workspaces

Debi-Moha — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 12:33:50 GMT

Currently, we have 3 Unity Catalog enabled workspaces sharing the same metastore. Now, when we create an external location or storage credential in any of the workspaces, it gets reflected across all workspaces. We are looking for some best practices around setting up external locations, such that in case we have a replicating setup like this, it would not have any security concerns. I can elaborate on this further if required, and I would appreciate any inputs on this setup or our approach around this.

Re: External locations being shared across workspaces

Allia — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 09:13:23 GMT

Hi @Debi-Moha Currently we do not have a mechanism to isolate the external locations and storage credentials based on workspaces, since the metastore is shared across the workspaces.

Please check below document for recommendations on securing external locations:

https://docs.databricks.com/en/data-governance/unity-catalog/best-practices.html#recommendations-for-using-external-locations

We do have a Feature request for this and this feature is considered for future.

Ideas Portal Idea:DB-I-7138