What is the advantage of using the new Global init script compared to the legacy init script

brickster_2018
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aladda
Databricks Employee
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Global: run on every cluster in the workspace. They can help you to enforce consistent cluster configurations across your workspace. Use them carefully because they can cause unanticipated impacts, like library conflicts. Only admin users can create global init scripts. Global init scripts are not run on model serving clusters.

See this for details - https://docs.databricks.com/clusters/init-scripts.html#init-script-types