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Azure Databricks and Terraform: Create a Cluster and PAT Token

Mon, 30 Mar 2020 20:08:16 +0000

[Update Feb 2021] There is now a Terraform Provider for Databricks, it’s a better route - https://registry.terraform.io/providers/databrickslabs/databricks/latest/docs

My starting point for a recent bit of work was to try and reliably and simply deploy and manage Databricks clusters in Azure. Terraform was already in use so I set about trying to see how I could use that to also manage Databricks.

I had a look around and after trying the Terraform REST provider and a third party Datbricks provider (didn’t have much luck with either) found a Terraform Shell provider. This turned out to be exactly what I needed.

Friends don't let friends commit Terraform without fmt, linting and validation

Tue, 16 Jul 2019 19:38:20 +0000

So it starts out easy, you write a bit of terraform and all is going well then as more and more people start committing and the code is churning things start to get messy. Breaking commits block release, formatting isn’t consistent and and errors get repeated.

Seems a bit odd right, in the middle of your devops pipe which dutifully checks code passes tests and validation you just give terraform a free pass.

Terraform: Get Azure Function key

Tue, 16 Jul 2019 14:56:50 +0000

Update 12/11/2020: This is now supported directly in the Azure Terraform Provider see here.

Updated 09/03/2020: This new method in the Azure provider has intermittent issues. I have another workaround here which avoids ARM templates as an alternative.

So you’ve deployed your function and you want to get pass the secure url another component in your deployment so it can use it…

Well currently there isn’t an output item on the azurerm_function_app resource in Terraform (I’m hoping to fix that up if I get some time) so how do you do it?

From ARM to Terraform: Why I'm becoming a Terraform convert

Thu, 21 Jun 2018 10:49:25 +0000

Let me give you some background: I’ve been a heavy user of the Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template s for some time now. We’ve had some good times together. We’ve also had some bad times and boy have we seriously fallen out at times!

I’ve used ARM extensively to automate deployment, configuration and update of the infrastructure in Azure. I’ve used it on everything from single-person projects to large scale dual-region deployments of services with critical live traffic.