From the course: Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate Cert Prep: 2 ELT with Spark SQL and Python

Unlock this course with a free trial

Join today to access over 24,600 courses taught by industry experts.

Installing and using Databricks CLI

Installing and using Databricks CLI

- [Instructor] One of the cooler things you can do with Databricks is administer it from the CLI. In order to do that on a Mac platform, all you'd have to do is just do a brew install, so here we go. You can see that I run these brew commands, and in this case, it would go through, and notice I've already got it installed, so I don't have to install it, so we're ready to go. Now, all I need to do is say which Databricks, and we can see that this has actually been installed. And at the very beginning, you'll want to run the Databricks configure command, and this will actually configure your environment for the workspace that you're wanting to talk to, and this is where you would also configure any kind of authentication as well, so you would create an OAuth token and put it inside of here. So since I've already done that, all I need to do is just dash dash help here, and we can see there's a bunch of different commands.…

Contents