Automate Azure Databricks Platform Provisioning and Configuration
Table of Contents Introduction Automation options Common workflow Pre-Requisites Create Azure Resource Group and Virtual Network Provision Azure Application / Service Principal Assign Role to Service Principal Configure Postman Environment Provision Azure Databricks Workspace Generate AAD Access Token Deploy Workspace using the ARM template Get workspace URL Generate Access Token for Auth Generate AAD Access...
Azure Databricks Security Best Practices
Azure Databricks is a Unified Data Analytics Platform that is a part of the Microsoft Azure Cloud. Built upon the foundations of Delta Lake, MLflow, Koalas and Apache SparkTM, Azure Databricks is a first party PaaS on Microsoft Azure cloud that provides one-click setup, native integrations with other Azure cloud services, interactive workspace, and enterprise-grade...
Trust but Verify with Databricks
As enterprises modernize their data infrastructure to make data-driven decisions, teams across the organization become consumers of that platform. The data workloads grow exponentially, where cloud data lake becomes the centralized storage for enterprise-wide functions and different tools & technologies are used to gain insights out of it. For cloud security teams, the addition of...
A Day at the 2019 Women in Product Conference
From left to right: Shveta, Julia, Yardley Pohl (a WIP board member and co-founder), Anna, Allie, Cyrielle, and Rani at the Databricks booth Databricks was a proud sponsor of the 2019 Women In Product conference which focuses on empowering women in product management and advocating for equal representation. We had a booth and happy hour...
Simplify Data Lake Access with Azure AD Credential Passthrough
Azure Databricks brings together the best of the Apache Spark, Delta Lake, an Azure cloud. The close partnership provides integrations with Azure services, including Azure’s cloud-based role-based access control, Azure Active Directory(AAD), and Azure’s cloud storage Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS). Even with these close integrations, data access control continues to prove a challenge for...
Azure Databricks – Bring Your Own VNET
Azure Databricks Unified Analytics Platform is the result of a joint product/engineering effort between Databricks and Microsoft. It’s available as a managed first-party service on Azure Public Cloud. Along with one-click setup (manual/automated), managed clusters (including Delta), and collaborative workspaces, the platform has native integration with other Azure first-party services, such as Azure Blob Storage,...
