How to Configure Azure Databricks Unity Catalog with Terraform Part 3

Guillermo Musumeci
9 min readOct 15, 2023

In this story, we will learn how to configure Azure Databricks Unity Catalog with Terraform.

In particular, we will learn:

  • Creating Databricks Access Connector for the External Storage Account
  • Creating Databricks Storage Credential
  • Creating the External Azure Storage Account
  • Creating Azure Storage Container for the External Storage Account
  • Assigning Permissions to the Databricks Access Connector to the Azure External Storage Account
  • Creating a Databricks External Location
  • Assigning Permissions to the Databricks External Location
  • Validating the Creation Azure Databricks External Location
  • Creating a Databricks Catalog for the External Table
  • Creating a Databrick Schema for the External Table
  • Creating a Databricks External Table
  • Validating the Creation of the Databricks External Table

List of my Azure Databricks-related stories:

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Guillermo Musumeci

Certified AWS, Azure & GCP Architect | HashiCorp Ambassador | Terraform SME | KopiCloud Founder | ex-AWS | Entrepreneur | Book Author | Husband & Dad of ✌