published on Monday, Mar 9, 2026 by Pulumi
published on Monday, Mar 9, 2026 by Pulumi
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To work with external tables, Unity Catalog introduces two new objects to access and work with external cloud storage:
- databricks.StorageCredential represent authentication methods to access cloud storage (e.g. an IAM role for Amazon S3 or a service principal for Azure Storage). Storage credentials are access-controlled to determine which users can use the credential.
databricks.ExternalLocationare objects that combine a cloud storage path with a Storage Credential that can be used to access the location.
Create ExternalLocation Resource
Resources are created with functions called constructors. To learn more about declaring and configuring resources, see Resources.
Constructor syntax
new ExternalLocation(name: string, args: ExternalLocationArgs, opts?: CustomResourceOptions);@overload
def ExternalLocation(resource_name: str,
args: ExternalLocationArgs,
opts: Optional[ResourceOptions] = None)
@overload
def ExternalLocation(resource_name: str,
opts: Optional[ResourceOptions] = None,
credential_name: Optional[str] = None,
url: Optional[str] = None,
comment: Optional[str] = None,
metastore_id: Optional[str] = None,
name: Optional[str] = None,
owner: Optional[str] = None)func NewExternalLocation(ctx *Context, name string, args ExternalLocationArgs, opts ...ResourceOption) (*ExternalLocation, error)public ExternalLocation(string name, ExternalLocationArgs args, CustomResourceOptions? opts = null)
public ExternalLocation(String name, ExternalLocationArgs args)
public ExternalLocation(String name, ExternalLocationArgs args, CustomResourceOptions options)
type: databricks:ExternalLocation
properties: # The arguments to resource properties.
options: # Bag of options to control resource's behavior.
Parameters
- name string
- The unique name of the resource.
- args ExternalLocationArgs
- The arguments to resource properties.
- opts CustomResourceOptions
- Bag of options to control resource's behavior.
- resource_name str
- The unique name of the resource.
- args ExternalLocationArgs
- The arguments to resource properties.
- opts ResourceOptions
- Bag of options to control resource's behavior.
- ctx Context
- Context object for the current deployment.
- name string
- The unique name of the resource.
- args ExternalLocationArgs
- The arguments to resource properties.
- opts ResourceOption
- Bag of options to control resource's behavior.
- name string
- The unique name of the resource.
- args ExternalLocationArgs
- The arguments to resource properties.
- opts CustomResourceOptions
- Bag of options to control resource's behavior.
- name String
- The unique name of the resource.
- args ExternalLocationArgs
- The arguments to resource properties.
- options CustomResourceOptions
- Bag of options to control resource's behavior.
Constructor example
The following reference example uses placeholder values for all input properties.
var externalLocationResource = new Databricks.ExternalLocation("externalLocationResource", new()
{
CredentialName = "string",
Url = "string",
Comment = "string",
MetastoreId = "string",
Name = "string",
Owner = "string",
});
example, err := databricks.NewExternalLocation(ctx, "externalLocationResource", &databricks.ExternalLocationArgs{
CredentialName: pulumi.String("string"),
Url: pulumi.String("string"),
Comment: pulumi.String("string"),
MetastoreId: pulumi.String("string"),
Name: pulumi.String("string"),
Owner: pulumi.String("string"),
})
var externalLocationResource = new ExternalLocation("externalLocationResource", ExternalLocationArgs.builder()
.credentialName("string")
.url("string")
.comment("string")
.metastoreId("string")
.name("string")
.owner("string")
.build());
external_location_resource = databricks.ExternalLocation("externalLocationResource",
credential_name="string",
url="string",
comment="string",
metastore_id="string",
name="string",
owner="string")
const externalLocationResource = new databricks.ExternalLocation("externalLocationResource", {
credentialName: "string",
url: "string",
comment: "string",
metastoreId: "string",
name: "string",
owner: "string",
});
type: databricks:ExternalLocation
properties:
comment: string
credentialName: string
metastoreId: string
name: string
owner: string
url: string
ExternalLocation Resource Properties
To learn more about resource properties and how to use them, see Inputs and Outputs in the Architecture and Concepts docs.
Inputs
In Python, inputs that are objects can be passed either as argument classes or as dictionary literals.
The ExternalLocation resource accepts the following input properties:
- Credential
Name string - Name of the databricks.StorageCredential to use with this External Location.
- Url string
- Path URL in cloud storage, of the form:
s3://[bucket-host]/[bucket-dir](AWS),abfss://[user]@[host]/[path](Azure). - Comment string
- User-supplied free-form text.
- Metastore
Id string - Name string
- Name of External Location, which must be unique within the databricks_metastore. Change forces creation of a new resource.
- Owner string
- Username/groupname of External Location owner. Currently this field can only be changed after the resource is created.
- Credential
Name string - Name of the databricks.StorageCredential to use with this External Location.
- Url string
- Path URL in cloud storage, of the form:
s3://[bucket-host]/[bucket-dir](AWS),abfss://[user]@[host]/[path](Azure). - Comment string
- User-supplied free-form text.
- Metastore
Id string - Name string
- Name of External Location, which must be unique within the databricks_metastore. Change forces creation of a new resource.
- Owner string
- Username/groupname of External Location owner. Currently this field can only be changed after the resource is created.
- credential
Name String - Name of the databricks.StorageCredential to use with this External Location.
- url String
- Path URL in cloud storage, of the form:
s3://[bucket-host]/[bucket-dir](AWS),abfss://[user]@[host]/[path](Azure). - comment String
- User-supplied free-form text.
- metastore
Id String - name String
- Name of External Location, which must be unique within the databricks_metastore. Change forces creation of a new resource.
- owner String
- Username/groupname of External Location owner. Currently this field can only be changed after the resource is created.
- credential
Name string - Name of the databricks.StorageCredential to use with this External Location.
- url string
- Path URL in cloud storage, of the form:
s3://[bucket-host]/[bucket-dir](AWS),abfss://[user]@[host]/[path](Azure). - comment string
- User-supplied free-form text.
- metastore
Id string - name string
- Name of External Location, which must be unique within the databricks_metastore. Change forces creation of a new resource.
- owner string
- Username/groupname of External Location owner. Currently this field can only be changed after the resource is created.
- credential_
name str - Name of the databricks.StorageCredential to use with this External Location.
- url str
- Path URL in cloud storage, of the form:
s3://[bucket-host]/[bucket-dir](AWS),abfss://[user]@[host]/[path](Azure). - comment str
- User-supplied free-form text.
- metastore_
id str - name str
- Name of External Location, which must be unique within the databricks_metastore. Change forces creation of a new resource.
- owner str
- Username/groupname of External Location owner. Currently this field can only be changed after the resource is created.
- credential
Name String - Name of the databricks.StorageCredential to use with this External Location.
- url String
- Path URL in cloud storage, of the form:
s3://[bucket-host]/[bucket-dir](AWS),abfss://[user]@[host]/[path](Azure). - comment String
- User-supplied free-form text.
- metastore
Id String - name String
- Name of External Location, which must be unique within the databricks_metastore. Change forces creation of a new resource.
- owner String
- Username/groupname of External Location owner. Currently this field can only be changed after the resource is created.
Outputs
All input properties are implicitly available as output properties. Additionally, the ExternalLocation resource produces the following output properties:
- Id string
- The provider-assigned unique ID for this managed resource.
- Id string
- The provider-assigned unique ID for this managed resource.
- id String
- The provider-assigned unique ID for this managed resource.
- id string
- The provider-assigned unique ID for this managed resource.
- id str
- The provider-assigned unique ID for this managed resource.
- id String
- The provider-assigned unique ID for this managed resource.
Look up Existing ExternalLocation Resource
Get an existing ExternalLocation resource’s state with the given name, ID, and optional extra properties used to qualify the lookup.
public static get(name: string, id: Input<ID>, state?: ExternalLocationState, opts?: CustomResourceOptions): ExternalLocation@staticmethod
def get(resource_name: str,
id: str,
opts: Optional[ResourceOptions] = None,
comment: Optional[str] = None,
credential_name: Optional[str] = None,
metastore_id: Optional[str] = None,
name: Optional[str] = None,
owner: Optional[str] = None,
url: Optional[str] = None) -> ExternalLocationfunc GetExternalLocation(ctx *Context, name string, id IDInput, state *ExternalLocationState, opts ...ResourceOption) (*ExternalLocation, error)public static ExternalLocation Get(string name, Input<string> id, ExternalLocationState? state, CustomResourceOptions? opts = null)public static ExternalLocation get(String name, Output<String> id, ExternalLocationState state, CustomResourceOptions options)resources: _: type: databricks:ExternalLocation get: id: ${id}- name
- The unique name of the resulting resource.
- id
- The unique provider ID of the resource to lookup.
- state
- Any extra arguments used during the lookup.
- opts
- A bag of options that control this resource's behavior.
- resource_name
- The unique name of the resulting resource.
- id
- The unique provider ID of the resource to lookup.
- name
- The unique name of the resulting resource.
- id
- The unique provider ID of the resource to lookup.
- state
- Any extra arguments used during the lookup.
- opts
- A bag of options that control this resource's behavior.
- name
- The unique name of the resulting resource.
- id
- The unique provider ID of the resource to lookup.
- state
- Any extra arguments used during the lookup.
- opts
- A bag of options that control this resource's behavior.
- name
- The unique name of the resulting resource.
- id
- The unique provider ID of the resource to lookup.
- state
- Any extra arguments used during the lookup.
- opts
- A bag of options that control this resource's behavior.
- Comment string
- User-supplied free-form text.
- Credential
Name string - Name of the databricks.StorageCredential to use with this External Location.
- Metastore
Id string - Name string
- Name of External Location, which must be unique within the databricks_metastore. Change forces creation of a new resource.
- Owner string
- Username/groupname of External Location owner. Currently this field can only be changed after the resource is created.
- Url string
- Path URL in cloud storage, of the form:
s3://[bucket-host]/[bucket-dir](AWS),abfss://[user]@[host]/[path](Azure).
- Comment string
- User-supplied free-form text.
- Credential
Name string - Name of the databricks.StorageCredential to use with this External Location.
- Metastore
Id string - Name string
- Name of External Location, which must be unique within the databricks_metastore. Change forces creation of a new resource.
- Owner string
- Username/groupname of External Location owner. Currently this field can only be changed after the resource is created.
- Url string
- Path URL in cloud storage, of the form:
s3://[bucket-host]/[bucket-dir](AWS),abfss://[user]@[host]/[path](Azure).
- comment String
- User-supplied free-form text.
- credential
Name String - Name of the databricks.StorageCredential to use with this External Location.
- metastore
Id String - name String
- Name of External Location, which must be unique within the databricks_metastore. Change forces creation of a new resource.
- owner String
- Username/groupname of External Location owner. Currently this field can only be changed after the resource is created.
- url String
- Path URL in cloud storage, of the form:
s3://[bucket-host]/[bucket-dir](AWS),abfss://[user]@[host]/[path](Azure).
- comment string
- User-supplied free-form text.
- credential
Name string - Name of the databricks.StorageCredential to use with this External Location.
- metastore
Id string - name string
- Name of External Location, which must be unique within the databricks_metastore. Change forces creation of a new resource.
- owner string
- Username/groupname of External Location owner. Currently this field can only be changed after the resource is created.
- url string
- Path URL in cloud storage, of the form:
s3://[bucket-host]/[bucket-dir](AWS),abfss://[user]@[host]/[path](Azure).
- comment str
- User-supplied free-form text.
- credential_
name str - Name of the databricks.StorageCredential to use with this External Location.
- metastore_
id str - name str
- Name of External Location, which must be unique within the databricks_metastore. Change forces creation of a new resource.
- owner str
- Username/groupname of External Location owner. Currently this field can only be changed after the resource is created.
- url str
- Path URL in cloud storage, of the form:
s3://[bucket-host]/[bucket-dir](AWS),abfss://[user]@[host]/[path](Azure).
- comment String
- User-supplied free-form text.
- credential
Name String - Name of the databricks.StorageCredential to use with this External Location.
- metastore
Id String - name String
- Name of External Location, which must be unique within the databricks_metastore. Change forces creation of a new resource.
- owner String
- Username/groupname of External Location owner. Currently this field can only be changed after the resource is created.
- url String
- Path URL in cloud storage, of the form:
s3://[bucket-host]/[bucket-dir](AWS),abfss://[user]@[host]/[path](Azure).
Import
This resource can be imported by namebash
$ pulumi import databricks:index/externalLocation:ExternalLocation this <name>
To learn more about importing existing cloud resources, see Importing resources.
Package Details
- Repository
- databricks pulumi/pulumi-databricks
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Notes
- This Pulumi package is based on the
databricksTerraform Provider.
published on Monday, Mar 9, 2026 by Pulumi
