Databricks CLI commands

Note

This information applies to Databricks CLI versions 0.205 and above, which are in Public Preview. To find your version of the Databricks CLI, run databricks -v.

This article provides links to information about available commands and command groups that are included in the Databricks CLI. This information supplements the Databricks CLI Command Reference.

This article assumes that you have already installed the Databricks CLI. See Install or update the Databricks CLI. For more information about the Databricks CLI, see What is the Databricks CLI?.

The Databricks CLI includes the command groups listed in the following table. Command groups contain sets of related commands.

Help for these command groups and their commands is included within the Databricks CLI:

• To display help for a command group and a list of the command group’s commands, run databricks <command-group> -h.

• To display help for a command, run databricks <command-group> <command-name> -h.

Most CLI commands map to operations that are documented in the Databricks REST API reference. CLI command groups that are not documented in the REST API reference have their own separate reference articles, which are linked in the following table:

Command group	Area
account	Databricks account operations.
alerts	Databricks SQL alerts operations.
api	Call any available Databricks REST API endpoint. You should use this command group only for advanced scenarios such as preview releases of specific Databricks REST APIs for which the Databricks CLI does not already wrap the target Databricks REST API within a related command.
auth	Manage Databricks CLI authentication settings.
bundle	Databricks Asset Bundle operations.
catalogs	Unity Catalog catalog operations.
clean-rooms	Clean room operations.
cluster-policies	Cluster policy operations.
clusters	Cluster operations.
completion	Enable Databricks CLI autocompletion.
configure	Manage Databricks CLI configuration.
current-user	Get information about the current authenticated Databricks user or Databricks service principal.
dashboards	Dashboard operations.
data-sources	List data source connection information for available Databricks SQL warehouses.
experiments	MLflow experiment operations.
external-locations	Unity Catalog external location operations.
fs	Databricks File System (DBFS) operations.
functions	Unity Catalog user-defined function (UDF) operations.
git-credentials	Git credentials operations.
global-init-scripts	Global init scripts operations.
grants	Unity Catalog access grant operations.
groups	Databricks workspace group operations.
help	Display help for the Databricks CLI or the related command group or the related command.
instance-pools	Instance pool operations.
instance-profiles	Instance profile operations.
ip-access-lists	IP access list operations.
jobs	Databricks job operations.
labs	Databricks Labs operations.
libraries	Library operations.
metastores	Unity Catalog metastore operations.
model-registry	Model registry operations.
permissions	Databricks object and endpoint permission operations.
pipelines	Delta Live Tables pipeline operations.
policy-families	Cluster policy family operations.
providers	Delta Sharing provider operations.
queries	Databricks SQL query operations.
query-history	Databricks SQL query history operations.
recipient-activation	Delta Sharing receipient activation operations.
recipients	Delta Sharing recipient operations.
repos	Databricks Databricks Git folder operations.
schemas	Unity Catalog schema operations.
secrets	Databricks secrets operations.
service-principals	Databricks service principal operations.
serving-endpoints	Model serving endpoint operations.
shares	Delta Sharing share operations.
storage-credentials	Unity Catalog storage credential operations.
sync	Perform one-way synchronization of file changes within a local filesystem directory to a directory within a remote Databricks workspace.
table-constraints	Table constraint operations.
tables	Unity Catalog table operations.
token-management	Databricks personal access token management operations.
tokens	Databricks personal access token operations.
users	Databricks user operations.
version	Displays the Databricks CLI version.
volumes	Unity Catalog volume operations.
warehouses	Databricks SQL warehouse operations.
workspace	Databricks workspace operations for notebooks and folders.
workspace-bindings	Operations for Databricks workspace bindings for Unity Catalog catalogs.
workspace-conf	Databricks workspace settings configuration operations.