What is best practice for determining how many workspaces I need?

[StephanieAlba]

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

[Walter_C]

Hello Stephanie, many thanks for your question.

In the following link you will find some of the best practices to follow when designing your workspace strategy:

https://www.databricks.com/blog/2022/03/10/functional-workspace-organization-on-databricks.html 

Remember, these are inferred best practices and not explicit guidelines. The exact number of workspaces your company needs will depend on your specific business requirements and disaster recovery strategy.

[karthik_p · Accepted solution]

@StephanieAlba adding to @Walter_C no of workspaces will depend on design that you are planning

1. you can based on business unit

2. you can just go by Dev/Qa/Tst/Prd for CICD Practices wise

3. if you go based on above approach, UC schema/catalog wise we need to be well prepared (eg: dev catalog--> dev_silver, dev_bronze, dev_gold schemas) and segregate permissions in schema level