topic Is there a way that admins can restrict users to install libraries on clusters and notebooks? in Data Engineering

Is there a way that admins can restrict users to install libraries on clusters and notebooks?

morganmazouchi — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 00:43:49 GMT

Re: Is there a way that admins can restrict users to install libraries on clusters and notebooks?

-werners- — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 13:28:13 GMT

you can assign permissions to (existing) clusters.

There are 4 kinds of permissions:

no permission (says enough I think)
Can Attach To: attach a notebook (and display logs)
Can Restart: same as above with stop/start/restart
Can Manage: same as Restart but with cluster resize and library install

So basically if you assign Attach or Restart permissions, the user is not allowed to install libraries.

That is only allowed with the Manage permission.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/security/access-control/cluster-acl#cluster-level-permissions

Re: Is there a way that admins can restrict users to install libraries on clusters and notebooks?

morganmazouchi — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 13:54:52 GMT

I found the answer to my question for how to restrict library installation both on clusters and notebooks and posting it here for others reference: we can restrict outbound access to the public pypi at the workspace level using these instructions https://docs.databricks.com/administration-guide/cloud-configurations/aws/customer-managed-vpc.html#optional-restrict-outbound-access

Re: Is there a way that admins can restrict users to install libraries on clusters and notebooks?

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 17:28:23 GMT

@Mojgan Mazouchi - I'm so glad you found the answer and shared it with us. Thank you!

Re: Is there a way that admins can restrict users to install libraries on clusters and notebooks?

Chris_Shehu — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 17:28:55 GMT

With it being restricted at the cluster level as well how are you installing libraries that need to be added adhoc? Did you block the entire pypi domain?

Re: Is there a way that admins can restrict users to install libraries on clusters and notebooks?

Sebastian — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 18:34:38 GMT

one way to manage is make the cluster permission only to can restart and then use an init script to install libraries on start up so that users wont install libraries on the fly.

Re: Is there a way that admins can restrict users to install libraries on clusters and notebooks?

morganmazouchi — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 22:07:42 GMT

Admin can set up a connection to Azure Artifactory/Jfrog Artifactory or other artifactories of required libraries for the workloads.