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Databricks Catalog External Locations Create

Tool to create a new Unity Catalog external location combining a cloud storage path with a storage credential. Use when you need to establish access to cloud storage in Azure Data Lake Storage, AWS S3, or Cloudflare R2. Requires metastore admin or CREATE_EXTERNAL_LOCATION privil…

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Inputs

  • urlstring
    Required
    Path URL of the external location (e.g., s3://bucket-name/path, abfss://container@storage.dfs.core.windows.net/path, gs://bucket-name/path)
  • namestring
    Required
    Name of the external location. This is the identifier used to reference the location
  • commentstring
    User-provided free-form text description of the external location
  • fallbackboolean
    Allows fallback to cluster credentials when Unity Catalog credentials are insufficient. Enables support for legacy workloads
  • read_onlyboolean
    Indicates whether the external location is read-only. When true, restricts the location to read-only access. Default is false
  • credential_namestring
    Required
    Name of the storage credential to use with this location. The credential authorizes access to the cloud storage path
  • skip_validationboolean
    Skips validation of the storage credential associated with the external location. Default is false
  • file_event_queueobject
    File event queue configuration.
  • enable_file_eventsboolean
    Whether to enable file event tracking at this location. If enabled, file_event_queue must be provided
  • encryption_detailsobject
    Server-side encryption configuration for AWS S3 communication.

Observable output

  • data
    Required
    Data from the action execution
  • errorstring
    Error if any occurred during the execution of the action
  • successfulboolean
    Required
    Whether or not the action execution was successful or not

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