UC - Service Principal/Terraform

[Pat]

Hi,

do you know if there is a way to create Unity Catalog metastore using Service Principal?

Here I can see that for creating account-level resources we need to provide a user and password (https://registry.terraform.io/providers/databricks/databricks/latest/docs#authenticating-with-hostname-username-and-password)

Is there a way to create a password for the SP? I thought it would be possible to create PAT, but I guess it's not possible on the account level.

[Debayan]

Hi Pat, Thanks for reaching out to community.databricks.com.

yes, service principles can be used for Unity Catalog. https://docs.databricks.com/data-governance/unity-catalog/index.html#identity-management-for-unity-c...

Also for other Databricks identities and roles, please refer : https://docs.databricks.com/administration-guide/users-groups/index.html

For managing groups users, and service principles,. please refer below:

https://docs.databricks.com/administration-guide/users-groups/users.html

[Kaniz]

Hi @Pat Sienkiewicz​ , We haven’t heard from you on the last response from @Debayan Mukherjee​ , and I was checking back to see if his suggestions helped you.

Or else, If you have any solution, please do share that with the community as it can be helpful to others.

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[Pat]

Hi,

this doesnt answer my question. I will have to revisit this. When I checked this first time I couldnt find the way to provision Unity Catalog with terraform using SP

[Pat · Accepted solution]

This is supported right now in the Azure, but not yet in AWS, but there is plan for AWS support as well.