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UCX Installation without CLI

Phani1
Valued Contributor

 

Hi Team, Can we install UCX Toolkit into databricks workspace without installing it via Databricks CLI? If its possible then How ?

https://github.com/databrickslabs/ucx

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Kaniz_Fatma
Community Manager
Community Manager

Hi @Phani1The UCX Toolkit is a powerful tool for upgrading your Databricks workspace to Unity Catalog. It helps you migrate various assets within your workspace, including:

  • Legacy Table ACLs
  • Entitlements
  • AWS instance profiles
  • Clusters and cluster policies
  • Instance Pools
  • Databricks SQL warehouses
  • Delta Live Tables
  • Jobs
  • MLflow experiments and registry
  • SQL Dashboards and Queries
  • SQL Alerts
  • Token and password usage permissions are set at the workspace level
  • Secret scopes
  • Notebooks
  • Directories
  • Repos
  • Files

The upgrade involves several steps, and UCX leverages the Databricks Lakehouse platform to perform it.

Hereโ€™s how you can proceed:

  1. Prerequisites:

    • Youโ€™ll need a desktop computer running Windows, MacOS, or Linux.
    • Ensure network access to your Databricks Workspace and the internet (for retrieving additional Python packages).
    • Set up databricks-cli and obtain the necessary credentials following the installation instructions.
  2. Installation:

    • UCX will install code, libraries, and workflows into your workspace.
    • After installation, youโ€™ll run a series of workflows and examine the output.
    • The custom-generated README.py, config. yaml and other assets will be placed in your Databricks workspace home folder under a subfolder named. .ucx.
  3. Assessment and Upgrade:

    • Trigger the assessment job (found under workflows or via the active link in README.py).
    • Review the assessment results in the custom-generated Databricks dashboard.
    • UCX will create job notebooks and deploy code and configuration files as part of the upgrade process.

Remember that youโ€™ll need administrative authority for your account, Unity Catalog, and workspace to complete the upgrade process. If you havenโ€™t already, set up databricks-cli and follow the steps outlined in the UCX repository on GitHub for detailed instructions.

Please note that UCX currently supports installations and upgrades only through Databricks CLI, as i...

 
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