There is a new direct mode in Databricks Asset Bundles: the main difference is that there is no Terraform anymore, and a simple state in JSON. It offers a few significant benefits:
- No requirement to download Terraform and terraform-provider-databricks before deployment
- Avoids issues with firewalls, proxies, and custom provider registries
- Detailed diffs of changes available using bundle plan -o json
- Faster deployment
- Reduced time to release new bundle resources, because there is no need to align with the Terraform provider release.
