Databricks CLI tutorial

The Databricks command-line interface (also known as the Databricks CLI) utility provides an easy-to-use interface to automate the Azure Databricks platform from your terminal, command prompt, or automation scripts.

This article demonstrates how to use your local development machine to get started quickly with the Databricks CLI. See What is the Databricks CLI?.

The following hands-on tutorial assumes:

• For Linux or macOS, you have Homebrew installed.

  Note

  If you cannot use Homebrew, for other ways to install the CLI, see Install or update the Databricks CLI.

• For Windows, you have winget, Chocolatey, or Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) installed. For installation instructions, see your operating system's documentation.

  Note

  Installing the Databricks CLI with Chocolatey is Experimental.

  If you cannot use winget, Chocolatey, or WSL, for other ways to install the CLI, see Install or update the Databricks CLI.

Complete the following steps:

1. If it is not already installed, install the Databricks CLI as follows:

   Linux, macOS

   Use Homebrew to install the Databricks CLI by running the following two commands:

   brew tap databricks/tap
   brew install databricks
   

   Windows

   You can use winget, Chocolatey or Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to install the Databricks CLI. If you cannot use winget, Chocolatey, or WSL, you should skip this procedure and use the Command Prompt or PowerShell to install the Databricks CLI from source instead.

   Note

   Installing the Databricks CLI with Chocolatey is Experimental.

   To use winget to install the Databricks CLI, run the following two commands, and then restart your Command Prompt:

   winget search databricks
   winget install Databricks.DatabricksCLI
   

   To use Chocolatey to install the Databricks CLI, run the following command:

   choco install databricks-cli
   

   To use WSL to install the Databricks CLI:

   1. Install curl and zip through WSL. For more information, see your operating system's documentation.

   2. Use WSL to install the Databricks CLI by running the following command:

      curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/databricks/setup-cli/main/install.sh | sh
      

2. Confirm that the Databricks CLI is installed by running the following command, which displays the current version of the installed Databricks CLI. This version should be 0.205.0 or above:

   databricks -v
   

   Note

   If you run databricks but get an error such as command not found: databricks, or if you run databricks -v and a version number of 0.18 or below is listed, this means that your machine cannot find the correct version of the Databricks CLI executable. To fix this, see Verify your CLI installation.

After you install the Databricks CLI, To configure the CLI to use other Databricks authentication types, see Authentication for the Databricks CLI.

Next steps

After you set up the Databricks CLI:

• To learn how to use the CLI, see Basic usage for the Databricks CLI.
• For an overview of available CLI commands, see Databricks CLI commands.
• If the CLI does not run or produces unexpected results, see Verify your CLI installation.