Inquiry Regarding Enabling Unity Catalog in Databricks Cluster Configuration via API

[Himanshu4]

Dear Databricks Community,

I hope this message finds you well. I am currently working on automating cluster configuration updates in Databricks using the API. As part of this automation, I am looking to ensure that the Unity Catalog is enabled within the cluster configuration.

I understand that enabling Unity Catalog is typically done manually through the Databricks UI during cluster creation or modification. However, I would like to inquire if there is a way to programmatically enable Unity Catalog via the Databricks API.

In my current script, I am fetching job details and cluster configuration settings, but I am unable to reflect the enabled Unity Catalog in the cluster summary. I would greatly appreciate any insights or guidance on how to achieve this programmatically via the API.

Thank you very much for your assistance and support.

[raphaelblg]

Hi @Himanshu4 ,

To run Unity Catalog workloads, compute resources must comply with certain security requirements. Non-compliant compute resources cannot access data or other objects in Unity Catalog. SQL warehouses always comply with Unity Catalog requirements, but some cluster access modes do not. See Access modes.

[Himanshu4]

Hi @raphaelblg ,

Thanks for your response. My task is to upgrade jobs. One of the scenarios involves upgrading job clusters, where I am trying to upgrade non-Unity Catalog clusters to Unity Catalog-enabled clusters. Is it possible by upgrading the spark version of the cluster using Databricks API?

[raphaelblg]

@Himanshu4 as long as the job cluster is on Shared mode, UC should be accessible.

[Himanshu4]

Hi Raphael
Can we fetch job details from one workspace and create new job in new workspace with the same "job id" and configuration?