@Gurps Bassi​ , "running instance of a database in docker" - that is hive metastore, so it just mapping to data which is usually physically on the data lake. Databricks are so much on the cloud that setting metastore locally doesn't make sense. Instead, place two Databricks workspaces, one with stage Repo (where you will make development) and another workspace with master Repo.

For those who want to develop locally in IDE, soon, the databricks tunnel for Visual Studio Code will be available.