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m997al
by Contributor III
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Resolved! Setting up Databricks with Unity Catalog using a service principal (instead of managed identity)

Hi,We are attempting to set up Databricks with Unity Catalog (metastore) using a service principal (as opposed to the managed identity).Instructions we are using are here:  Create a Unity Catalog metastore - Azure Databricks | Microsoft LearnThe chal...

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m997al
Contributor III
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Thanks to all for the suggestions.  Ultimately, we went with the Managed Identity configuration (after all that investigation).  Answers very much appreciated.  Thank you.

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StephanieAlba
by Databricks Employee
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Resolved! What is best practice for determining how many workspaces I need?

What is the best practice for determining how many workspaces our company needs?  What are the most appropriate boundaries now that we have UC?

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karthik_p
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@StephanieAlba adding to @Walter_C no of workspaces will depend on design that you are planning1. you can based on business unit2. you can just go by Dev/Qa/Tst/Prd for CICD Practices wise3. if you go based on above approach, UC schema/catalog wise w...

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SivaPras_50542
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Tags are not getting added to the nodes

Tags which were added are not getting added to the EC2 instances,

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karthik_p
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@SivaPras_50542 adding to @Retired_mod are you using clusters from pools, then the behavior will be different . tags wont get inherited from clusters for pools, we need to create tags to workspace level/pool level, please check below linkhttps://docs...

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StephanieAlba
by Databricks Employee
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Resolved! How many workspaces should we have?

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 a...

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Unity Catalog
Workspaces
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Raluka
New Contributor III
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Thank you so much for helping me. I didn't even expect it.

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Masoomeh
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Problem with provisioning lakehouse via Terraform

I am trying to provision the lakehouse on Azure using the Terraform template provided here: https://github.com/databricks/terraform-databricks-examples/tree/main/examples/adb-lakehouse. I have started from scratch and have only added a resource group...

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JoeStringer
by New Contributor II
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Help Needed: Grants remaining for removed Groups and Service Principal

We have an issue in a Workspace which is managed by Terraform, a change went in to update the Group and Service Principal (SP) names but due to the internal ordering the Groups and SP were removed and replaced before the Grants were updated.If we now...

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YennickT
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We are experiencing a similar issue, except with the storage credential resource. We created some storage credentials using Terraform, but when trying to destroy them using Terraform they were ignored. So we decided to manually delete the storage cre...

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HappySK
by New Contributor II
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Why do we need different AWS Accounts ?

I am just going through the AWS Databricks Platform Administration course and I am curious to know about the Cloud Accounts used to setup DatabricksWhen we are setting up the Databricks, we are using AWS Account but we are not using that account sayi...

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dleblanc
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Hi @HappySK,  The AWS account you're using basically serves as the data plane - this is where your data lives, and the compute resources that process it (at least in the classical compute model) will be provisioned there as well. As part of the confi...

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paritoshsh
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PAT Tokens access restrictions

Hi,We have a Databricks workspace on which we have disabled PAT's for now. Moving ahead we want the developers to use Personal Access Tokens but only for development purpose.As I know the current option to enable PAT's give access to the whole REST A...

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555308
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Cluster failed to start

I am getting this error in my Partner Databricks Account and I had tried several methods to start the cluster. As i don't have access to console.aws.amazon.com/ec2. I was not able to check the details/logs in the ec2 instance. I am getting the follow...

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-werners-
Esteemed Contributor III
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Here is a similar topic:https://community.databricks.com/t5/machine-learning/problem-with-spinning-up-a-cluster-on-a-new-workspace/m-p/29996To actually fix/analyse the issue, you need access to the EC2 console unfortunately.  I assume someone in the ...

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SanderJvanDijk
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Ubuntu 18.4 EOL

Hi,last July 18th we were informed by Databricks that Ubuntu version 20.04 (operating system: Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS) was going to be the only certified and supported Ubuntu version for the 10.4 runtime cluster we use. We have been experiencing some issu...

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diego_poggioli
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Resolved! Unable to list service principal in Job details RUN AS

I added the service principal in Admin Settings > Service Principal and then enabled all the Configurations "allow cluster creation", "databricks SQL access" and "workspace access". In the Permission settings I have enabled "Service principal: Manage...

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BilalAslamDbrx
Databricks Employee
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For future readers - don't forget to add your email (e.g. me@foo.com) in the Service Principals permissions tab. This way, you will be able to see the newly-created service principal in the dropdown menu.

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