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

[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.